Stalin assured appropriate 'legal action' if the allegations were confirmed. The student strike and the Tamil Nadu government's instant response to a call attention motion in the legislative assembly changed it all on March 31. The students, instead of complying with the diktat, formed a union and wrote to Stalin and the secretary, the Union Ministry of Culture, detailing the alleged abuse that they said had been going on for many years now. In a knee-jerk response, following the students' protest, the Foundation declared a holiday for the institution and instructed students to vacate their hostel rooms. It was to protest over the inaction on the accusations of sexual harassment against four of the faculty-an assistant professor and three repertory artistes-festering over several months. Earlier, on March 30, around 250 students began the protest, during the morning prayer under the banyan tree, and boycotted the day's examination. Stalin to bring the offenders to book, anguished students of the renowned Kalakshetra Foundation's Rukmini Devi College of Fine Arts in Chennai, a unique dance school under the Union Ministry of Culture, called off their unprecedented sit-in strike temporarily.
On March 31, following an assurance by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K.
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