Panjab College. File | Photograph Credit score: The Hindu
Panjab College college students on Wednesday (November 26, 2025) introduced that they might gherao the BJP places of work in Punjab and Chandigarh on December 3 as they sought to accentuate their agitation demanding the announcement of senate ballot schedule.
The scholars reiterated that the protest will proceed till their demand is met.
Protesting college students mentioned they’ll ‘gherao’ the BJP places of work with the help of farmers’ our bodies, spiritual organizations and different college students’ our bodies.
Calls for of scholars
No election schedule has been introduced regardless of assurance from Union minister Ravneet Singh Bittu’s that the senate ballot shall be introduced quickly, the protesters mentioned, including that they’ve been ready for the announcement of the election schedule for the previous a number of days.
PU college students, underneath the banner of Panjab College Bachao Morcha, had known as for an entire shutdown of the varsity on Wednesday, to press for a schedule for senate election that haven’t taken place for greater than a yr.
The protest was held close to the workplace of the vice chancellor, scholar chief Jodh Singh mentioned.
Police made elaborate safety preparations on the campus to take care of regulation and order, together with the deployment of anti-riot automobile.
Nonetheless, the varsity authorities declared a vacation on Wednesday, with all places of work and departments shut. It additionally postponed the examinations scheduled to be performed within the campus on the day.
On November 10, PU college students held an enormous rally that noticed them storming the varsity’s entry gates and jostling with safety personnel.
The protest was initially launched in opposition to the Centre’s choice to restructure Panjab College’s governing our bodies — the senate and the syndicate.
Nonetheless, following mounting strain from numerous political leaders and protesting college students, the Ministry of Training on November 7 withdrew its October 28 notification asserting a change within the structure and composition of the Panjab College senate and syndicate.
The scholars, nonetheless, refused to finish their agitation, and pressed the college to announce a schedule for the senate election.
Pupil representatives had additionally met the vice chancellor, who knowledgeable them that the schedule has been despatched for approval to the Vice President of India, who’s the chancellor of the varsity.
A number of political events from Punjab, together with the Aam Aadmi Occasion, the Shiromani Akali Dal and the Congress, in addition to farmers’ our bodies together with the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), SKM (Non-Political), and Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Morcha have prolonged help to the scholar’s protest.
Revealed – November 27, 2025 07:22 am IST