The 27-day-long PU Bachao Morcha protest at Punjab University, Chandigarh, ended on Saturday after the university administration accepted all six major demands raised by student organisations. Following the agreement, protesters began removing their tents and belongings from the campus.
Students had claimed that the demands were essential to restore democratic functioning at the university and resolve disputes linked to last year’s events. Their key demands included scrapping the “non-democratic” vetting committee, dissolving the panel reviewing affiliation of Haryana colleges, halting the PUCSC constitution and SOP until consultations with student groups, withdrawing the civil suit filed against student bodies, cancelling FIRs registered during last year’s Senate election protests, and dropping the inquiry against Prof. Kulwinder Singh and Prof. Sudhir Mehra.
Before the decision, PU Bachao Morcha held marches across all hostels, raising slogans such as “Mitti Dhun Rabab Di, Punjab University Punjab Di.” Students from rural areas celebrated by organising a tractor march across campus.
