Jamia students want to restart polls,union

Elections were last held in 2005,when Shams Parvez was elected as president of the students’ body. Bhumika Chauhan,a student of Sociology,said,“The administration says the campus is not yet politically mature,and having a student union will come with its own problems. But maturity will come with political participation.”

Elections were banned six years ago,after the students union allegedly “started interfering with the administrative matters of the university”. Since then,students have asked the administration at least four times to reinstate elections.