The Ravenshaw Bikash Abhiyan (RBA) termed the Ravenshaw University Vice-Chancellor’s decision to rechristen the Students’ Union as Students’ Council as illegal, undemocratic and a violation of Supreme Court judgment and threatened to move the court and the Governor against the decision.
“The Supreme Court’s September 22, 2006 clearly states for holding Students Union polls within six to eight weeks of beginning of an academic year. The Ministry of Human Resources and Development has also issued a direction to implement the judgment. While there has been no situation arisen in the university to bring changes in polls, on what capacity the Executive Council has decided to adopt an alternative way,” wanted to know the RBA.
RBA president Chittaranjan Mohanty, while presiding over a meeting, said RBA threatens to move court, Governor the university authorities’ plea of violence in the campus is totally concocted as no incidents had taken place for years.
The RBA demanded that direct election to the Students’ Union be held according to the SC direction soon otherwise it would be forced to move the court and the Governor against the SC judgment violation.
Among others, Khirod Mahapatra, Jugal Nayak, Pradeep Patnaik, Prasant Das, Akhaya Das, Prasant Panda, Khageswar Sethi, Siddhart Rath and BB Balbant Ray were present.