Jamia protests revive focus on Lyngdoh panel's campus poll rules

Students at Jamia Millia Islamia have been protesting since October 12 to demand restoration of an elected students' union, dissolved in 2006. The university has formed a five-member panel to draft the union's constitution. The debate has revived interest in the 2006 Lyngdoh Committee report, which warned that party-linked student groups politicise campus elections and divide students into rival factions.