Polls: Profs manhandled by students

In the second such incident in two days, a senior professor was roughed up by students on Saturday in connection with college union elections...

In the second such incident in two days, a senior professor was roughed up by students on Saturday in connection with college union elections after which police arrested 80 students.

Alleging that the professor had given permission to one group of Jabalpur8217;s St Alloysius College8217;s students8217; union to hold an election-related meeting in the college premises, the other group indulged in violence and manhandled him, police said. Those arrested included NSUI district president Shashank Dube.

When contacted, college Principal David George said since the college was run by missionaries, ABVP and NSUI students indulged in violence on trivial issues, which dented the college8217;s reputation. He said he would soon file a petition in the court for banning the student union polls in the college.

Earlier, in Tikamgarh, ABVP workers allegedly beat up a government college principal and his three daughters on Friday night following differences over holding student union polls.

ABVP workers led by its district unit general secretary Shailendra Awasthi forcibly entered Shivcharan Chaurasiya8217;s house by breaking the door open and allegedly beat him up and his three daughters. Of the five men named in the FIR, two, including Awasthi, were arrested on Saturday.

The ABVP activists were allegedly angered by Chaurasiya8217;s decision to change in-charge of the union elections A Chaturvedi, who is reportedly close to the BJP.

Elections in Madhya Pradesh colleges were earlier scheduled for August 29-30, but following an order by the Supreme Court they have been advanced to August 23-24. The order is based on the Lyngdoh Committee report that says college elections should be held within six to eight weeks of the beginning of the academic session.

Uma8217;s men held for blackening teacher8217;s face

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RAIPUR: Eleven workers of Uma Bharati8217;s Bharatiya Janshakti Party, including the state president of its youth wing, were arrested on Saturday for allegedly blackening the face of a lecturer of Raipur Medical College. A group of BJ activists stormed the medical college on Friday and blackened the face of V K Jain for allegedly making 8220;derogatory8221; remarks against the country while reciting a poem in an official programme of the medical college on August 15, police said.