Bhubaneswar, Feb. 21 -- The Opposition BJD and Congress members on Friday staged a noisy walkout, expressing their displeasure over Higher Education Minister Suryabanshi Suraj's reply in the Odisha Assembly regarding the unrest at KIIT University following the suicide of a Nepali girl student.
Replying to an adjournment motion brought by Congress members Ram Chandra Kadam,
C. S. Rajen, and Ashok Das, the Minister strongly condemned the incidents that followed the suicide of the Nepali student on February 16.
Suraj stated that tension escalated on the KIIT campus after the girl's suicide on the afternoon of February 16. He further said that on February 17, the KIIT university administration declared a sine die (indefinite closure) only fo...