Ravenshaw University authorities have decided to stop holding student union elections from this year. Instead they are planning to nominate meritorious students to the union.
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"CUTTACK: Yet to recover from the bloody clash between groups of students last week, Ravenshaw University seems to have set foot in muddy waters yet again.The decision by the University Syndicate to do away with the elections for the students’ council is fast building up into a storm with students’ bodies crossing swords with the authorities on the issue.The students’ organisations, which had already begun preparations for the ensuing elections with the start of the current academic session, are taken aback by the decision.The Biju Chatra Janata Dal, the students’ wing of ruling BJD, on Thursday came out strongly against scrapping of the polls system terming it as a gross infringement of democratic processes."We will not take the decision lying low and will launch a movement to pressurise the authorities to withdraw the decision. We are working on convening an all-party meeting on the issue to take it up unitedly," said Zonal BCJD president Byomkesh Ray.Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad has also called a meeting of its members and a decision on the issue would be taken in two days, according to Cuttack Zone secretary Smrutiranjan Badu.The Ravenshaw University Committee of All India DSO led by secretary Bhagyarabi Das on Thursday submitted a memorandum to the Chancellor asking the authorities not to abolish the students’ council elections.The University Syndicate has resolved to scrap the election system to prevent the unruliness, indiscipline and clashes between groups and parties and introduce a council with nominated members. The nominations would be done on the basis of merit, according to Registrar Satyakam Mishra.The nominated council would organise cultural and students development programmes more effectively and fruitfully, the authorities said."
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