The students have been demanding that the university administration announce the long-pending Senate elections to reconstitute the 91-member Senate, the highest governing body of Panjab University.
A heavy police force has been deployed around the university campus, and Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Kanwardeep Kaur of Chandigarh has checked the security arrangements. Barricades have been put outside the gates of the university campus.
The row began after the Centre issued a notification to overhaul the Senate's composition, sparking widespread political and academic backlash over the decision to dissolve Panjab University's top governing bodies and replace them with nominated structures through an executive notificatio
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