Date:30/10/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/10/30/stories/2008103058890300.htm

New Delhi

JNU students to intensify struggle

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: The joint struggle committee of the student community at Jawaharlal Nehru University is planning to intensify its struggle against the Supreme Court stay order on the students’ union polls.

Representatives from different students’ organisations and several concerned individuals are a part of the committee set up after the University General Body Meeting this past weekend.

In solidarity with the committee, former JNUSU office-bearers, several of who are now active in the mainstream politics, will hold a “Meet the Press” session on the campus on Friday.

A joint solidarity public meeting will be held on Sunday where the national leadership of various students’ organisations will express their support.

The committee has also given a call for a University strike on Monday.

The same day students will form a human chain at India Gate.

“We are planning to observe November 3 (the polling day as per the now stayed election schedule) as a national protest day. We will also be sending a mass deputation to the Chief Justice of India and President Pratibha Patil, who is the visitor of the University,” said JNUSU president Sandeep Singh at a press conference on Wednesday.

The members of the struggle committee asserted that a single set of rules for holding the students’ elections could not be applied to different universities of the country.

On the legal process, the committee members said they were in talks with lawyers and would soon move a review petition.