Student bodies again flout Lyngdoh norms by Archit Watts
Chandigarh, September 23The Panjab University Campus Students’ Council (PUCSC) elections are long over but the violation of the Lyngdoh committee’s recommendations continues, the latest being the submission of self-certified expense reports.
With only two days left to submit the reports, no party other than the INSO-SOI alliance has submitted it. The sole report submitted has been designed to fall in the approved limit of Rs 5,000.
While the alliance ensured a free flow of money to woo the voters and had offered a free movie for around 60 students twice and dance parties, the expenses on record total to just Rs 4,950.
However, Sukhdev Kundu, INSO representative, denied holding any such parties or movie trips while speaking to the TNS. “We have already submitted our expense report of Rs 14,850 for three candidates; the allegations are totally false and we haven’t organised any dance party or movie,” he said.
The winning SOPU-ABVP alliance has allegedly held back their report till their ‘justified’ demands of admission of Brinder Dhillon to the university and reversal of suspension of Harpreet Multani, currently in judicial custody, are met.
Even the PUSU-NSUI alliance has refused to submit the report. According to Tejpal Cheema, PUSU president, “If the winning party can evade the report for their baseless demands, why should we submit it?”
The violation doesn’t confine to the parties only as even the dean, students’ welfare, Naval Kishore, expressed his ignorance about which all groups had submitted the report and what were their shortcomings.

Chandigarh Tribune September 24, 2008