By SUNIL Sonkar

New Delhi, Feb. 18 — Andhra Pradesh’s Telangana region Congress MPs alleged on Thursday that police molested some students in the girls hostel of Osmania University in Hyderabad. The MPs have also appealed to Congress president Sonia Gandhi to direct the state government for taking an action against those involved in it.

The Congress MPs met at Andhra Bhawan in New Delhi and sent a letter to Sonia Gandhi alleging that the AP police were “committing excesses against students in the Osmania and Kaktiya Universities”.

They wrote on the letter, “Some 2,000 police personnel entered the university campus in Hyderabad on Monday and lathicharged the students who were protesting peacefully. The police dragged the students and beat them up. They even entered girls hostel and switched off the lights and molested some of them.”

Madhu Goud Yaskhi, MP from Nizamabad and G Vivekanand, MP from Pedapalli said to the reporters, “We strongly condemn these incidents.”

MP Vivekanand further said that they have appealed to Congress president Sonia Gandhi to “direct the chief minister to transfer the police officials responsible for this police repression and form a committee to monitor the situation and bring peace on the campus.”