Withdraw panel report on Panjab University, Akali Dal urges Venkaiah Naidu

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, July 23

A delegation of Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) MPs led by its president Sukhbir Singh Badal today urged Vice-President and Panjab University (PU) Chancellor M Venkaiah Naidu to ensure the unique character of the PU as a symbol of Punjabi pride was not tinkered with in any manner and called for the withdrawal of the report of the Chancellor’s high-level committee on governance reforms.

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Badal claimed Naidu had assured the SAD delegation that he had already looked into the matter and that all contentious issues were being resolved.

The delegation, which comprised former Union Minister Harsimarat Kaur Badal, Balwinder Singh Bhunder and Naresh Gujral, called for withdrawal of all recommendations made by the committee, including disaffiliation of colleges of Punjab by drastically reducing the territorial jurisdiction of Panjab University. The delegation claimed the committee set up for reforms had been hijacked by “anti-Punjab forces” seeking to change the very character of the university in the name of reforms.