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P. Raveendran, Vice-Chancellor (V-C), University of Calicut, has cancelled the departmental students’ national (DSU) elections held connected the field connected October 10, 2025, successful presumption of the large-scale complaints related to the polling process.
A merchandise quoting the authorities said connected Wednesday (October 15, 2025) that the elections would beryllium held afresh utilizing caller ballot papers erstwhile normalcy returned to the campus, which has been unopen down indefinitely since October 11 aft struggle broke retired betwixt 2 groups of students connected the erstwhile day.
Mr. Raveendran besides acceptable up a five-member squad to inquire into the alleged irregularities that occurred during the DSU predetermination held connected the university’s outer campuses specified arsenic John Matthai Centre successful Thrissur, and the Institute of Tribal Studies and Research successful Wayanad, and the Institute of Engineering and Technology connected the main campus. The sheet would suggest steps to streamline the polling process and taxable a study successful 3 weeks. The V-C directed those successful complaint of the outer centres and the engineering college, wherever the predetermination process had been completed already, not to let the pupil national functionaries to presume complaint oregon clasp meetings. The Dean, Students’ Welfare, has been asked to guarantee that the ballot papers utilized for the students’ national elections were successful order.
The clash betwixt activists of the Students’ Federation of India (SFI) and the United Democratic Students’ Front (UDSF), a conjugation of the Kerala Students’ Union and the Muslim Students’ Federation, began aft UDSF activists alleged that immoderate of the ballot papers did not person the signatures of the presiding officers. The counting of votes was disrupted, and the V-C directed the officials to suspend the declaration of results and seal the ballot boxes. Meanwhile, SFI functionaries criticised the determination to behaviour the predetermination again, saying that the V-C was mocking the antiauthoritarian rights of the students. They demanded that an bid beryllium issued for re-counting of votes and state the results.
