PU elections AAP student wing to contest polls, reaches out to freshers

“We have decided to participate in the student election on the Panjab University campus. This is first time we are doing so.”

He added there are a lot of issues related to the students remain unaddressed by the student organisations active on campus. “Our organisation will take up all the issues bothering the students without making any compromise in this regard,” he said.

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He alleged that some organisations have no interest in the students issue and are more occupied in doing politics on behalf of their party.

The AAP has a presence in Punjab as well as Haryana from where a large number of students take admission in the Panjab University. Many of these students have been urging the AAP leadership to take part in the student politics of various colleges of Chandigarh besides the neighboring states.

Randhawa said: “We are getting very good response even when the admission process has just started on the campus. Many students have approached us for membership, but we have not started enrollment and membership process as of now.”

AAP’S organisational chief Durgesh Pathak said: “Our party is getting a great response from the youths of Punjab. So, we were consistently being pressed upon by the youths to participate in the student election and we have decided to launch our youth wing in the Panjab University and all colleges in the city.”

He added: “We will ask students about their issues and problems faced by them. Going by what they say, we are going to make our student manifesto.”

However, leader of other student organisations differ with AAP’s claims.

State president, SOI, Vicky Middukhera, said: “We don’t consider them (AAP) any kind of competition. In fact we want them to come and compete so that all their wrong perceptions about the youths supporting them vanishes.”

Former chairman, NSUI, Jeewanjot Singh Jugnu said: “AAP has failed to perform in Delhi. All their tall claims about bringing in change have fallen flat. Their indulgence in politics and performing political gimmicks will not work in the Panjab University.”