PU polls-2017: Five-day deadline puts campaign fever at its peak

Making every vote count: From classrooms to hostels, student organisations are putting their best foot forward in the run up to student council elections; campaigning to end at 5pm on September 6; nominations to be filed on Sep 1.

With five more days to go, the campaigning for Panjab University Campus Students’ Council (PUCSC) elections is at its peak. All 21 students organisations on campus are aiming at covering over 70 departments and 17 hostels in this short span of time. They are alllowed to campaign till 5pm on September 6.

Girls showing stickers of various in Panjab University in Chandigarh on Thursday. (Anil Dayal/HT)

Student leaders and teams are nowhere to be seen at the Student Centre as they are all are busy campaigning in classrooms during the day and then at hostels in the night. A team consisting of a department incharge with 20 to 30 members, dedicated to a particular task, start their day at around 8.30am when the classes begin.

The leaders, including fresh faces of student bodies, can be spotted answering questions putting their presentation skills to test. Students are also prepared with some tough questions regarding the university and their contribution to it.

A leader of the Students for Society (SFS) said, “No sooner than we enter the classrooms, the students start putting their questions forward. They are prepared with a list. Since other organisations tell them that the SFS was involved in the stone-pelting incident during the fee hike issue, their first question to us is why we did that and brought a bad name to the varsity?”

Leaders said once their day started at 8.30am, it ended at after midnight with their final stage of campaigning in the hostels.

Since the nominations are scheduled to be filed on September 1, the student bodies were even spotted making plans for alliances and finalising their presidential candidates and panels at the last moment.

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