A students' delegation of Ranchi Veterinary College on Thursday requested governor Droupadi Murmu to look into their demands a day after Birsa Agricultural University (BAU), of which she is the chancellor, closed the college sine die and removed 150 students from the hostel.

The delegation, which held a sit-in outside Raj Bhavan where state Congress general secretary Alok Dubey and party spokesperson Kishore Nath Shahdeo joined them, met governor's principal secretary S.K. Satpathy who promised to look into their complaints.

About 60 students, mostly boarders of the vet college hostel, had stayed back near Raj Bhavan till around 6.40pm when the local Kotwali police ordered them to disperse.

The students' agitation over job hiring norms and the alleged highhandedness of BAU vice chancellor Parvinder Kaushal in dealing with them reached a climax on Wednesday when authorities closed the college and ordered about 150 students, including girls, to immediately vacate from the hostel on their Kanke campus, allegedly for being 'unruly'.

Though the sudden order to vacate hostel rooms left students traumatised, they stayed firm on their demands, which included the lifting of the sine die closure order so that they could go back to their hostel, rolling back hiring norms for 70-plus jobs at 16 Krishi Vigyan Kendras for which they were deemed ineligible to apply in a recent notification and removal of new dean (veterinary sciences) A.K. Srivastava and VC Kaushal.

Many boarders, who spent Wednesday night on Kanke roadside with their belongings, said they didn't opt to stay with friends or relatives to stay united and avoid splitting into smaller groups.

Some said they met agriculture minister Randhir Kumar Singh late on Wednesday night but he allegedly didn't give any concrete assurance.

'He (Satpathy) told us he will meet BAU VC Parvinder Kaushal to know the situation and ask why we were thrown out of the hostel. We want BAU to withdraw the sine die closure and allow students to go back to hostels,' said Nirmala Minj, a PG student of the college.

She mentioned how the 'autocratic act' of the university affected hostel resident Sneha Kumari, a PG student who is eight months pregnant. Sneha said she panicked when police swarmed their campus on Wednesday. 'I panicked and started feeling pain,' said the student who arranged an auto on her own but got an ambulance arranged by the varsity when her friends spoke up for her. 'I can't believe I was forced to vacate my hostel room in this condition,' said Sneha who stayed with a relative of a friend in Harmu on Wednesday night before her engineer husband Anand Jha arrived in Ranchi from Jharsuguda in Odisha.

Students said at least 10 hostel residents from Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh and other far-off states were the worst sufferers.

Archana from Andhra Pradesh said they were 'moving on the road like nomads'.

'You can understand how difficult it is for girls without shelter. Trains for Andhra Pradesh are running full,' she said. Chitra Chunewala and Raju Kumar from Jaipur, Rajasthan, said they didn't have distant relatives in Ranchi to stay with.

BAU VC Kaushal and governor's principal secretary Sathpathy did not respond to calls.

Dean (veterinary science) A.K. Srivastava evaded a direct reply on whether any meeting was scheduled at Raj Bhavan on Thursday. 'Meetings regularly take place. We are looking into the matter,' he said.