Over half dozen of constituent colleges of the Tribhuvan University (TU) in the Valley remain shut though the Free Student Union poll has been postponed for indefinite state.Nine Valley-based constituent colleges that were shut against the mass admissions by the student unions on May 16 and 17 have not been unlocked.

The TU´s Central Campus, Kirtipur, which was padlocked by the Biadya affiliated ANNISU-R, demanding to withdraw the admissions also remains shut.

Though the TU executive council on Thursday had postponed the election following the confrontation among the four major student unions, both the TU officials and student leaders have not taken any initiative to open the administration and account departments of the colleges.

"Student unions have turned defiant to university´s call to sit for dialogue for unlocking the colleges," said Ganga Bahadur Thapa, Chief of the Students Welfare and Sports Council of TU. The students are ready for street protests demanding fresh poll date but do not respond to the university´s call, he added.

The supporters of the Nepali Congress (NC) affiliated Nepal Student Union (NSU) have already hit the streets demanding the TU to play constructive role for announcing the fresh poll date.

The NSU coordinator Ranjeet Karna mentioned that the TU needs to jointly organize a meeting of all 13 student unions to settle the ongoing disputes, which has created distance between the student unions.

The NSU supporters and student cadres also staged a sit-in at the TU premise on Tuesday to pressurize the TU officials. The students affiliated to CPN-Maoist aligned All Nepal National Independent Student Union-Revolutionary have been staging protests at the college premise since Friday.

The unions have been blaming each other for mass admissions to win the election. However, the college authorities have initially said that the student unions admitted around 3000 students in seven colleges spending more than Rs 12 million targeting election.

source: republica,4 june 2013