Click to play videoBhopal: The Supreme Court guidelines to conduct student union elections as per recommendations made by the Lyngdoh committee was clearly flouted in Madhya Pradesh on Thursday.
Both ABVP and NSUI supporters resorted to vandalism and violence in several parts of the state on the first day of the student union elections.
While students of the Government Arts and Commerce College in Indore took on each other, in Seoni, a student shot and injured a member of a rival organisation.
In both instances, the unions blamed each other.
"These allegations of violence are being made against us because they know they can not win," said ABVP’s State Organising Secretary, Mukesh Tyagi.
The blame-game continued. State General Secretary of NSUI, Monu Saxena said, "The ABVP is indulging in violence and the police are hand in glove with them. They are the ones who are violating the rules"
In Mhow, the Principal of Bhairu Lal Patidar college, Asha Pandey, suffered a heart attack after being threatened by student leaders.
She is in a critical state and is recuperating in a hospital in Indore. The students had reportedly told Pandey that she would suffer the same fate as Professor HS Sabharwal, the Ujjain professor who was allegedly beaten to death by ABVP activists.
“They misbehaved with the principle when she went out to discuss the matter,” says the lecturer of Patidar College, Anita Botham.
The widespread violence ensured that turnout in the student elections was low, and elections in two colleges even had to be cancelled after no nominations were filed.
The Supreme Court order asking colleges to implement the Lyngdoh Committee's recommendations on student union elections clearly counts for little in Madhya Pradesh.
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