Holiday no breather as student bodies engage in alliance strategies

The parties are yet to finalise their candidates as prospects of different alliances is being looked into.
Talking to Newsline Barinder Dhillon, President SOPU, said, “We want to ensure that we follow the rules and regulations before deciding our candidates.” Alliance making appears to be the way out this year, as various party leaders could be seen engaged in working out various combinations.

SOI declares its presidential candidate
Parmbir Singh Sandhu, a second year student from the Department of Laws, was selected as the presidential candidate of the SOI. The party members, meanwhile, are tight-lipped on the issue of a likely alliance with the INSO. Sources maintain that the bargain is on between the parties.

Seat sharing
Late on Saturday evening, SOPU and NSUI formed an alliance wherein candidates for both president and general secretary posts will be from SOPU, while the candidate for the post of vice-president will be from NSUI.

Parties put up their tents
Come Sunday and all the parties are expected to have their tents in place. Though a tent was set up on Saturday, the same did not bear anybody’s name.

‘I was always for SOPU’
DALVIR Singh Goldy, who had recently joined NSUI as the Punjab President, is back in the varsity campaigning for SOPU which he had left to join the NSUI. Goldy stated that he has always been for the SOPU and would continue to be the same.Goldy said, “It is in Punjab that I have joined the NSUI and the students’ bodies in the varsity have no link with the same. I was for SOPU and shall always be for it.”

Goldy has already started campaigning for the SOPU but the party is yet to make a formal announcement for the same. On Thursday evening, Goldy was spotted campaigning for SOPU in the law department. Goldy, who started his political career with PUSU, joined SOPU after some altercations with his previous party.