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ALLAHABAD: Two student leaders of Allahabad University including the vice president and the representative of the Arts faculty of AU student union, made an abortive bid of self-immolation while protesting at the arts campus of AU, on Thursday. The two student leaders have been detained by the police.Large number of student leaders and former inmates of various hostels, who would soon be allocated rooms in different hostels, assembled at the union hall of AU, on Thursday. We are also demanding that the varsity administration should also roll back their decision of blacklisting Six student leaders of the campus, he added. They forcefully closed all the counters and working of the varsity administration, which continued suspended for the rest of the day.After prolonged dialogue with the varsity authorities, the student leaders have agreed to talk with the varsity administration. They had assembled to pressurise the varsity administration, demanding that the varsity authorities should roll back the decision of allocating hostels on the basis of courses as it is damaging the age-old tradition of hostel culture..