February 10, 2006

India Moves to Control Campus Politics

By SHAILAJA NEELAKANTAN

Concerned about the increase in violence in student elections at Indian universities, the government formed a committee in January to bring order to the chaotic process.

James Michael Lyngdoh, a former chief election commissioner of India, will lead the committee, which was created in response to a Supreme Court order in December striking down a lower-court ruling that forbade universities in the State of Kerala to direct the way in which students are elected to college unions, as

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