Chandigarh: These students want to vote for 'nobody'

Garima Talwar
[ 8 Sep, 2006 0340hrs IST TIMES NEWS NETWORK ]

CHANDIGARH: "In the ballot papers, there should be an option as I vote nobody", said vigilant students of Punjab University.

Has the recent display of incidents between students unions, where they play dirty to outnumber each other, drilled fear in the minds of students?

Keeping in account the recent case where a neutral person got stabbed or the latest incident outside Mata Gujri hostel, where on the name of politics, personal rivalry between two girls came to the fore in the most obscene manner and student unions took the charge of bubbling up the situation to strengthen their vote banks, students certainly feel that none of these people are really fit to become their leaders.

"I really wish that we were given the choice to vote for 'nobody' to express our disapproval against the leaders. We want someone who can fight for the real cause. Calling a strike over petty issues like attendance or mess food is so whimsical. Why can't we have leaders who can think beyond this", said Naresh (name changed), a student of mass communication at PU.

Echoing his views, Supriya of English department said, "An option of 'nobody' in ballot papers would surely go with my expression of antipathy and resentment towards the present political scenario, both at university and national level."

In the abyss of gaining power, political parties seem to have swayed from the very purpose for which they had come into existence.

According to Maninder (name changed) of law department: "It is a sheer wastage of university funds. We can put this money into something productive like building an open-air auditorium or setting up various societies. Most of the leaders are amateurs who can go to any length to fill their vote banks. I have lost faith in them completely."

Harleen Sidhu, a pass out of English department, who completely complies with the situation, said, "PU politics is really dirty and not a single person is fit to be a student representative in the real sense since nobody is fighting for students. They are just fighting amongst themselves."