The Naveen Patnaik Government’s unwillingness to allow student union polls on campuses for the sixth consecutive year has triggered widespread student protests in the State.
There was no mention of the student union election in the common calendar, for the academic session of 2023-24 for universities and colleges, released by the Higher Education department on Tuesday. This has been the case since 2018.
Members of Chhatra Congress, the student wing of Congress, took out a rally on Thursday protesting the decision. They hurled eggs at the official residence of High Education Minister Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak and burnt his effigies and that of Chief Minister Patnaik.
