The Ravenshaw Bikash Abhijan on Friday submitted a memorandum to Governor Prof Ganeshi Lal demanding steps to hold direct Students’ Union elections in the Ravenshaw University to fulfil the democratic rights to the students. Abhijan president Chittaranjan Mohanty alleged that the university authorities have flouted the judgment of the Supreme Court by taking a decision to not to hold elections even if there is no violence in the campus.
On the hand, the authorities without holding any discussion with the agitating students rather have issued show-cause notices to some students and filed FIRs against some of them which is highly condemnable.
Among others, former university Vice-Chancellor Ganesh Tripathy, Siddharth Rath, Khirod Mahapatra, Jugal Kishore Nayak, Prasant Das, Prasant Panda, Sukant Nayak, Kamiludin Ahmad, Suresh Rout, Enamul Hauque, Khageswar Sethi, Pavel Priyadarshan, Manoranjan Routray were present during submission of the memorandum.