As the students’ indefinite dharna entered its nineteenth day at Panjab University on Wednesday, members of the PU Bachao Morcha were busy completing final preparations for tomorrow’s mega meeting, which will decide the next phase of the agitation.

Anger is growing among the protesters over a fresh FIR, what students called the PU administration’s “vilification campaign” to sabotage the peaceful movement, and the continued delay in issuing the Senate election notification under the pre-October 30 structure.

The movement, now the biggest youth-led confrontation the PU has witnessed in years, began after The Tribune broke the PU overhaul story on November 1, igniting a fierce political storm across Punjab and Chandigarh. The Centre was forced to scrap the PU overhaul within a week through

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