IIT-Delhi shines in debate competition

Tribune News Service

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Patiala, September 26

Agahi, the annual parliamentary debate competition organised by the Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab, has always witnessed huge participation from teams across the country and other SAARC nations. Agahi’16 is now in its sixth edition.

The competition witnessed an overwhelming participation from 34 teams and 9 independent adjudicators, competing for five awards - the best team with a cash prize of Rs 31,000, the runners up with a cash prize of Rs 11,000, the best speaker and the best adjudicator carrying cash prizes of Rs 7,000 each. The most congenial team in the competition is awarded the fifth award- The Spirit of Agahi.

The success of a debate depends substantially on its core adjudicators. Agahi 2016 has had the honour of having Shaurya Upadhyay, Siddhartha Thygarajan and Ira Regmi as its core adjudicators who ensured and aided the smooth functioning of the debate. The RGNUL adjudicator pool consisted of Surabhi Grover, Dhairya Sharma, Raunak Mohta, Kriti Priyadarshini, and Nishtha Shukla.

The debate was spread over three days. The semi-finals brought us a step closer to culmination of Agahi’16 with IIT-Delhi and LCD breaking into the final rounds. IIT-Delhi won the debate and Law College, Dehradun, finished at the second place. Akshita from Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh, was awarded the best adjudicator. Shrome Khanna was awarded the best speaker. The award for Spirit of Agahi was won by Hidayatullah Law University, Raipur.

The valedictory ceremony of the event was graced by SS Boparai, IAS (retd), former Vice-Chancellor, Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab and Kirti Chakra Awardee, who was the chief guest for the event.  Boparai distributed the prizes among the winners and all participants.