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Lucknow V-C shuts down varsity Lucknow, December 8 The decision came a day after protesting students spilled on to city roads, indulging in violence and clashing with the police at several places, forcing the law enforcing agency to resort to a mild lathi charge. Citing his inability to control the lawlessness prevailing on the campus for now more than a fortnight as the reason for his decision, the Vice-Chancellor declared at a hurriedly convened press conference, "In view of the prevailing atmosphere on the campus and colleges, it is not possible to hold union elections in a free and fair manner and to run academic activities peacefully". He along with principals of affiliated colleges met Governor T.V. Rajeshwar earlier today to apprise him of the students’ unrest over the implementation of the Lyngdoh committee report. Expressing anguish at the state government's decision to provide security to student leaders with criminal background, the Vice-Chancellor said he had always opposed police security and private security for student leaders on the campus as it created a law and order problem. According to him, student leaders and their associates had been provided with armed government guards and arms licences and were allowed to roam freely, completely upsetting the academic ambience. "These guards and shadows help create an atmosphere of terror and rowdiness, to which the police turns a blind eye", he alleged. Substantiating his point, the Vice-Chancellor quoted the recent transfer of a senior police official, whose only fault was dealing firmly with rowdy elements among students on the university campus. Students had been protesting against the Lyngdoh committee report on students' union election reforms. The committee had frowned upon the marriage of convenience between mainstream political parties and students’ factions. No teaching had taken place at the university for the last fortnight and the university had already lost 60 teaching days since the start of the session because of violence due to students’ union activities. The agitation had now spread to other parts of the state, with reports of students indulging in violence in Gorakhpur and other cities. According to reports from the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya University in Gorakhpur, students lodged violent protests after the university authorities ordered a deferment of the students’ union poll to seek the opinion of the Advocate-General on the issue. The university had earlier decided to relax the provision of the report for the December 16 students’ union poll. The intervention of Governor T.V. Rajeswar had prompted them to amend their decision and impose a ban on all students who had any punitive action taken against them.
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