Student union election in Odisha from next year, says CM Mohan Majhi

Bhubaneswar: The student union election shall be held in Odisha from next year said the Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi at an event on Thursday. With the change in the Government of Odisha after a long gap of 24 years and three months there was much discussion as to whether the BJP government will restart the system of student union elections in Odisha.

There were discussions in this regard after the BJP Government came into power as to whether there will be student parliament elections in the state. The demands of students for union elections were rising with each passing day. The student union elections in the state had been cancelled since 2018. Many student associations were demanding elections.

It is worth mentioning that last year the BJD Government had cancelled the students’ union elections across colleges and universities in the state. It was the sixth consecutive year when the students’ union election were not be conducted in Odisha.

The decision was taken in the larger interest of the students’ community in the state, said a notice of the Odisha Higher Education Department. In the larger interest of the students’ community, it had been decided by the State Government that Students’ Union Election shall not be conducted in State Universities and Degree Colleges coming under the administrative control of Higher Education Department, in 2023.

However it is worth mentioning here that, there has been a longstanding demand of the students for college union elections in Odisha, which has finally been approved to be restarted by the Odisha Chief Minister at an event today.