Welcome return to normality

We welcome the decision and hope that the student supporters of the two major parties will be able to avoid such deadlock in future well before the general students are forced to pay a high price for the severe disruption of campus life. The BCL leaders have said that the university authorities have agreed to meet their demands, which indeed indicates that there were fruitful talks between them and the university authorities. Obviously, the student organisations, operating under the tutelage of this or that political party, have to realise that nothing is more important than the academic issues like resumption of classes and holding of examinations on time.

The JCD has also adjusted its position on the latest outbreak of campus violence by announcing that the campus was 'open to all'. So the feuding groups have apparently found a point of convergence and have succeeded in preventing further escalation of violence. But we wonder why things were allowed to drag onto the point where the university classes and examinations couldn't be held and suddenly the campus became a place for only the political activists. Some kind of preemptive mechanism should have been there so that the trouble could be nipped before it assumed threatening proportions. A trouble-shooting arrangement comprising the teachers, students and all others concerned should be in place to ensure that students in general do not become hostage to lingering campus violence, which tends to upset all their calculations.

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The crisis has been resolved after six days of nightmare, which created a state of total uncertainty on the campus. The student bodies, which represent the major parties, have to accept the truth that nobody has the right to disrupt normal functioning of the university. Similarly, the question of 'rehabilitating' the political rivals should not have arisen since the university is for all bona fide students.

Finally, the university campus must not be turned into a place for testing strength since the general students are badly affected when such bellicose tactics are adopted by the politically charged student bodies.