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Former Health Minister and elder Congress person Balbir Singh Sidhu connected Monday (November 3, 2025) said that the BJP-led Central government’s determination to restructure the ‘Syndicate and Senate’ of Panjab University has yet again exposed the BJP’s “anti-Punjab face.”
Mr. Sidhu stated that nether the pretext of improving the functioning of Panjab University, the Central authorities has astir eliminated the practice of teachers, principals, and alumni successful its syndicate and senate, converting them into nominated bodies present straight nether its control. “This historical instauration of Punjab is present ‘Panjab University’ successful sanction only, arsenic successful practice, it has been turned into a afloat cardinal university,” helium said successful a statement.
He alleged that the BJP authorities intends to extremity oregon drastically trim Punjab’s practice successful each institution, conscionable similar successful the BBMB (Bhakra Beas Management Board), truthful that Punjab tin nary longer power their decisions.
Hitting retired astatine the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) authorities successful Punjab, Mr. Sidhu said, “the Central authorities dared to instrumentality this measurement lone due to the fact that of the AAP government’s deficiency of committedness towards Punjab and Punjabis.”
