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According to the All-Bengal Principals’ Council, a CPM-backed association, the Higher Education department should come up with a uniform constitution to hold elections at colleges, thereby reducing confusion and confrontation among student factions.
“Whenever there is an election, it becomes a sensitive issue. Colleges do not have a fixed criteria on how voting will be conducted or how many students will contest one seat. This creates confusion,” said Dipak Kar, Principal of Asutosh College. Council General Secretary Anjan Sengupta argued that as different colleges have different ways to conduct union elections, there is no scope to interpret rules. Sengupta is the principal of Sirish Chandra College, where polls were held on December 18.
The council wants rules to be properly laid down — how many days after notification should elections be held, and whether polls should be conducted in one day or in a definite time span fixed by the authorities. Though according to a circular of the Higher Education department, elections in all colleges of a particular district are to be held in one day, in Kolkata, the practice is not being followed because of a large number of colleges.
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