Parents' appeal to students

By Our Special Correspondent

CHENNAI, FEB. 5. Parents of one of the victims in the bus burning incident at Dharmapuri made an earnest appeal today to the student community to give up their agitation over the tragedy and instead concentrate their attention on studies.

Though the death of their daughter was an irreparable loss to them, they did not agree with the present restive state of the student community over the issue, said Mr.R.Kesavachandran and Mrs.A.Kasiammal, parents of Hemalatha, one of the three women undergraduates of the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, who were charred to death in the incident.

The fact that the Tamil Nadu Government had taken all steps to apprehend the anti-social elements responsible for the killing of Hemalatha was a great source of consolation to them.

``We struggled so much to provide higher education to our daughter to ensure a bright future for her. All our hopes have been dashed to the ground'', Mr.Kesavachandran said in a moving statement issued from his residence at Madambakkam on the outskirts of Chennai.

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