The United Students’ Forum staged a two-day dharna opposing the proposal of holding indirect elections to students’ unions in the Khallikote Cluster University and all its affiliated colleges.
A large number of students led by the Khallikote College’s former Students’ Union president and forum convenor Biswajit Patro sat on a day-and-night dhrana in front of the college from Thursday. Students of the Binayak Acharya College, Chhatrapur College and Gopalpur College participated. Among others, student leaders like Samanta Sahu, Bijaya Raj Panigrahi, Promod Kumar Sahu, Madan Mohan Padhy and Rajesh Bisoyi and many former student leaders sat on the dharna.
lawyer Sudhansu Panda, former Students’ Union president Pravat Mohanty, Student Congress president Tapas Sahu, Youth Congress president Ajit Panda, the BJD’s laxman Chaudhury, the BJP’s Dharanidhar Behera provided their support.
On the other hand, some students met the University Vice-Chancellor conveying their support to the proposal of indirect polls.