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Heavy constabulary deployment was made connected and astir the Panjab University field present connected Monday (November 10, 2025) successful the aftermath of a protestation telephone by students who are pressing for the announcement of Senate polls.
Under the banner of 'Panjab University Bachao Morcha', students person been holding a protestation against the Centre's now-withdrawn determination to restructure the university's governing bodies — Senate and Syndicate.
Amid students' protests and mounting disapproval from governmental leaders, the Ministry of Education, connected November 7, withdrew its October 28 bid notifying the reconstitution and recomposition of the 2 bodies.
Despite this, the students person refused to extremity their agitation and person called for a "university shutdown" connected Monday (November 10) to property the authorities to denote the docket for the Senate elections, which person not taken spot for much than a year.
Heavy constabulary deployment was made connected and astir the field and the university's introduction points were barricaded. Checkpoints were acceptable up connected assorted roads arsenic the authorities braced for Monday's (November 10) protest.
Security unit person besides been deployed astatine the Chandigarh-Mohali borderline points.
Panjab University Campus Students Council (PUCSC) vice-president Ashmeet Singh said each preparations person been made for a peaceful protest. He claimed that galore students were being denied introduction to PU.
The assemblage authorities person already announced holidays connected Monday (November 10) and Tuesday (November 11). Only those with assemblage ID cards are allowed to participate the campus.
Student person Abhishek Dagar said determination volition beryllium a peaceful protestation and it volition proceed till the Senate canvass docket is announced.
Several governmental leaders from the ruling AAP, Congress, Shiromani Akali Dal and farmers' bodies, and artists person extended their enactment to the protesting students.
Punjab Minister Gurmeet Singh Khuddian, Leader of Opposition successful Punjab Assembly and Congress person Partap Singh Bajwa, Congress MPs Dharamvira Gandhi and Amar Singh, Congress MLA Rana Gurjeet Singh and erstwhile Union curate Pawan Kumar Bansal extended their enactment to the students connected Sunday (November 9).
The Centre's notification amended the Panjab University Act, 1947, reducing the spot of the Senate, the apex governing body, to 31 from 91, and doing distant with elections for its enforcement body, the Syndicate.
