Gandhi group plunges into PUCSC poll, declares panel

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, August 17

The Gandhi Group Students’ Union (GGSU) has plunged into the Panjab University Campus Students’ Council (PUCSC) elections and declared its panel today.

Harman Virk is chief patron, Deep Somal chairman, Armaan Cheema president and Gurwinder Singh vice-president.

Cheema said, “We have decided to contest elections this time. Last year, we did not contest as one of our leaders had died. We have not yet finalised the alliance.”

The party did not contest the elections in 2016 but had aligned with the Panjab University Students’ Union (PUSU) in 2014, when it contested for the first time. It contested along with Student Organisation of India (SOI) in 2015 along with four other student groups, when the alliance won all the four posts.

“In 2016, the party had won the posts of president in DAV College, Sector 10, SD College, Sector 32, Khalsa College, Sector 26, and Post Graduate Government College (PGGC), Sector 11, in alliance with other parties,” said Cheema.

He said, “None of the parties has picked up genuine problems of students on the campus. We will consult the students before framing the manifesto. It will be released within next 10 days.”

Cheema said the party would raise the issues like shortage of hostels, parking and basic facilities in departments.”

The GGSU has been formed in the memory of Rupinder Gandhi. He was born on October 2 in Khanna, so his father named him Gandhi. He was a national-level football player and studied at Panjab University. He became the sarpanch of his village at the age of 22. He died in a gang-war in 2003. A film-‘Rupinder Gandhi- The Gangster?’ came on him in 2015 too.