Haryana to hold student polls after 22 years

CHANDIGARH: Student union elections in Haryana would be conducted from the next academic session of 2018-19, CM Manohar Lal Khattar said on Monday. The elections were last held in 1996.

CHANDIGARH: Indian National Students Organisation (INSO), the student wing of the principal opposition party in Haryana, Indian National Lok Dal (INLD), on Monday threatened to intensify its stir from Tuesday demanding immediate announcement of dates of university students’ council elections.

INSO state president Pradeep Deswal said that more students will join the hunger strike at Guru Jambheshwar University (GJU). To the question on state government’s announcement that the students council elections will be conducted the new academic session, Gangwa and Deswal said that the same assurance had come several times in the past too though the government did not hold the elections.

The hunger strike will be discontinued only after a senior official comes to the dharna spot at GJU, Hisar with poll assurance and also a promise to have fund provision for the said poll in the ensuing budget. Student body polls in all the universities of Haryana have not been held since 1996 because of the increasing incidence of violence.

POLLS FROM NEW SESSION, SAYS CM

Meanwhile, Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar has said that student union elections will be conducted in the next academic session 2018-19, probably by September.