The state government's decision to postpone the university students' council elections, which was to be held almost after two decades, has not gone down well with the student union leaders. The reason stated for the decision, taken during a Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, is that if a second election was conducted during the Assembly polls, it might lead to a law and order situation. However, the decision has evoked strong reactions from student union members, who say the move was a political one.

With about two weeks left for the students' council elections, members had already started creating awareness and identifying candidates among all. But according to student leaders, the government's decision made all the efforts redundant. Even BJP's own students' wing, the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) has expressed disappointment over the decision.