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UP restores polls to student's unions
Thursday March 22, 2012 06:24:11 PM,
IANS
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Lucknow: Elections
to student's unions in Uttar Pradesh universities and degree
colleges will be held after a gap of seven years.
An order issued by the Higher Education secretary Avanish Awasthi
late Wednesday overturned the ban imposed by the previous Mayawati
government on the ground that the polls led to violence and
hooliganism on campuses.
"The decision to hold student's union elections in all degree
colleges and universities of the state will be implemented in
letter and spirit as per the directions of the chief minister,"
Awasthi told IANS.
Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, at his first meeting with officials
had signalled his willingness to restore student politics in Uttar
Pradesh.
The elections would be held from the new session beginning July
and would be conducted on lines of the Lyngdoh Committee
recommendations.
Among the recommendations are that aspirants should be aged
between 17 and 28, depending on whether they are under-graduates,
post-graduates or research scholars.
The committee had also recommended that contestants should not
have a criminal record, should have 75 percent attendance and
should spend less than Rs.5,000 on campaigning.
This had led to widespread outrage amongst student leaders who had
resorted to violence, following which some 250 students were
expelled from Lucknow university alone. The Mayawati government
thereafter scrapped student's union polls in the state.
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