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HC order reinforces LU stand
ALLAHABAD HIGH Court direction that students? union election in universities should be held in concurrence to Lyngdoh Committee report has given the much needed shot in the arm to the Lucknow University administration that has been under pressure from student leaders to hold election as per old arrangements.
ALLAHABAD HIGH Court direction that students’ union election in universities should be held in concurrence to Lyngdoh Committee report has given the much needed shot in the arm to the Lucknow University administration that has been under pressure from student leaders to hold election as per old arrangements.
The HC order has once again reinforced LU’s commitment to hold student union elections as per the SC interim order.
HC has observed that since report of the Lyngdoh committee has already been accepted by the Supreme Court, there was no way the guidelines could be ignored. Lyngdoh Committee, headed by JM Lyngdoh, former chairman of Election Commission of India, has made various recommendations for the reform in students’ union elections across the country to keep criminal elements from contesting the student union elections.
Says an LU official: “From the very first day we have been boldly making Press statements that LUSU polls would be conducted as per the Lyngdoh committee report. Despite criticism by student leaders, we never succumbed to pressure.
And this decision just reinforced our stand. We’re thankful both to SC and HC fortaking an initiative to purge criminal elements from campus. It’s high time student leaders gave up their stir.”
All hopes of LU student leaders to force varsity administration to conduct elections in abeyance of Lyngdoh recommendations were dashed. Today’s verdict would help LU conduct election only as per the Lyngdoh report.
The HC order has made the task of LU officials easier to convince the district administration to conduct elections as per the new arrangements
District administration has convened a meeting of LU officials on Thursday to discuss the issue of student union elections and to work out probable dates for the same. District magistrate Ramendra Tripathi has already stated that university is an autonomous body and the student union elections would be held as per the procedure to be laid out by LU and district administration would have no say in it.
