Student outfits named after criminals

Archit Watts
Tribune News Service

Fazilka, May 2

Student politics in the state are not without the influence of gangsters as some student outfits bear the name of criminals.

The Gandhi Group Student’s Union (GGSU), Shera Khubban Students Union (SKSU) and Students Organisation of Panjab University (Lawrence Bishnoi group) are named after gangsters.

The GGSU is named after Rupinder Singh Gandhi alias Gandhi, former Sarpanch of Rasulra village near Khanna who operated a gang in Ludhiana area and was murdered by a rival gang in 2003.

The SKSU is named after gangster Gurshahid Singh aka Shera Khubban, who was killed in his mid-20s in a police encounter in Bathinda in 2012. Shera was a native of Khubban village in Fazilka district.

The SOPU, that was not linked to any political outfit in the past, has gradually turned out to be a group of gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, who is behind bars. Lawrence is also known as sharpshooter, belongs to Duttaranwali village in Fazilka district.

Courtesy: The Tribune