Students protest
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, October 30 2015 :
Students today rose in protest at Manipur College after some unknown persons who identified themselves as members of an election monitoring cell took away enrolment register and students' identity cards of the college yesterday.
Joint Students Coordinating Committee (JSCC) convenor Jayanta Kumar Khuman cautioned that they would intervene if the college authority and Returning Officer of college students' union election fail to come out with a clarification at the earliest.
After the completion of issuing identity cards to the students of the college by the Directorate of Education (U) on October 28, two clerks were preparing a list of students who did not get identity cards when the unknown persons came to the college yesterday.
They identified themselves as members of an election monitoring cell and forcibly took away the enrolment register, list of students and identity cards from the two clerks, Jayanta said.
Some students of the college requested the Principal to lodge an FIR at a police station regarding the incident.
However, the Principal did not take up any action in this regard, he said.
Later, JSCC executives talked with the two clerks regarding the incident after the students put up the matter to the committee, Jayanta said.
He further said that the two clerks allegedly told JSCC executives that they were summoned at the office of DESAM.
Students are now suspicious that the whole matter was cooked up by the college authority in connivance with the election monitoring cell, Jayanta said.
As such, the college authority and RO must make a clarification at the earliest regarding the mess, he demanded.
Meanwhile, in a statement issued late tonight, Monitoring Committee of Students' Union Elections 2015-16 (DESAM and AIMS) said that there is no change in their earlier stand announced in the media.
The committee requested the authority of Manipur College to distribute identity cards to students on a fixed day so that equal opportunities could be got by the candidates.
However, the college authority was found distributing the identity cards quietly so that some candidates may gain advantage.