DELHI UNIVERSITY FAILING TO MEET IDEALS OF 'ANTODAY'

DELHI University last week was agog with an act of alleged indiscretion indulged into by the president of the Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) Ronak Khatri.

- SIDHARTH MISHRA

It was an act of muscle flexing, which the DUSU leaders have indulged into for several years, at least since 1980s when this columnist was a student of the university.

However, such unfortunate acts were few and far in between. Secondly it was always considered to be a regrettable incident and often ended in realisation on both the sides that it could have been avoided, with apologies and pardoning part of the package deal. However these are different times.

The polling scenario on the Delhi University campus has completely changed and last year it forced intervention of the High Court leading to the withholding of the poll results for almost four months. I had mentioned in these very columns that there are allegations that the students who did not qualify to contest polls for 'shortage' of attendance, were allowed to do so condoning their absence from the classrooms at the behest of the university administration.