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Opposition parties, including the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), the Congress, and the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), connected Saturday (November 1, 2025) cornered the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Central authorities connected its determination to dissolve the senate and the syndicate of the Panjab University.
The determination by the Centre trampled connected Punjab’s hard-earned autonomy, world freedom, and Constitutional rights, State Education Minister and AAP person Harjot Singh Bains said. “It is simply a blatant battle connected the precise psyche of Punjab,” helium added.
Describing the determination not arsenic an administrative betterment but arsenic “an enactment of occupation”, Mr. Bains alleged determination was a unsafe plan down the determination to centralise control, crush Punjab’s chiseled voice, and systematically rewrite the principles of federalism enshrined successful the Indian Constitution.
The SAD urged the Vice-President of India and Panjab University’s ex-officio Chancellor C.P. Radhakrishnan to retreat the notification. In her missive to the varsity’s Chancellor, Bathinda Lok Sabha MP Harsimrat Kaur Badal, appealed to Mr. Radhakrishnan to not alteration the antiauthoritarian quality of the university, and clasp elections to its syndicate.
The notification had virtually made the syndicate and legislature of the Panjab University a rubber stamp of the Central government, Ms. Badal said. The determination had caused consternation among Punjabis who felt the Panjab University, which was archetypal established successful Lahore successful 1882, was portion of their shared heritage, she said.
The connection was an “attempt to saffronise a historical instauration similar Panjab University”, Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring said.
“Scrapping the legislature and the syndicate of the Panjab University and replacing these with nominated members is simply a blatantly crude effort by the BJP and the RSS [Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh] to hijack a historical instauration of the country,” Mr. Warring said successful a statement.
