Senate poll delay: MP extends support to protesting PU students

After former MLA Kuljit Nagra and a few Senate Fellows came in support of students protesting the delay in holding elections to the Senate, Anandpur Sahib MP and former Panjab University Campus Student Council president Malwinder Kang reached the campus today and extended support to the protesters.

"It is a conspiracy by the BJP to choke the democratic structure in Panjab University. While everywhere it is being tried to save the democratic institutions, here, an attempt is being made to end an already established one," Kang said while interacting with mediapersons.

Interacting with students sitting outside the office of Vice-Chancellor, MP Kang said the VC should defend the institution of Senate. "Universities like this are producing brilliant minds and the Central regime is targeting it. There were attempts to change the structure of the Senate four years ago as well. But everyone came forward to save it," he added. He also commented that there is no valid reason to delay the election to an elected body.

It is important to note that students have been protesting the delay in holding elections to the Senate, tenure of which ended on October 31. As many as five Fellows had approached the High Court requesting for the extension of their tenure by another year, claiming that their term was wrongfully notified in back date and since the body was constituted in December 2021, it should end in 2025. The court has deferred the hearing to December 10 and did not grant any interim relief to the petitioners.