Tension returns to Utkal Varsity as students demand polls

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KalingaTV News Network

Utkal UniversityBhubaneswar: Tension returned to the Utkal University campus here on the day it was reopened after a 20-day long sine die due to unrest as students gheraoed vice-chancellor (VC) Soumendra Mohan Patnaik demanding students’ union election on Monday.

The students gheraoed Patnaik barely hours after the Utkal University opened today. A meeting between the staff and the students is currently underway to find a solution to the impasse.

Commissionerate police has deployed three platoons of police force to avoid any untoward incident in the premises of the oldest University of the state.

The University authorities decided to lift the sine die which was imposed in the campus on September 18 ahead of students’ union poll following pre-poll violence.

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