Overview
- The Senate has been cut from 90 to 31 members with 18 elected, six nominated and seven ex officio, and the graduate constituency has been abolished.
- The Syndicate has been converted into a fully nominated body, with the Vice-Chancellor now empowered to decide eligibility disputes and delegate executive powers.
- New ex officio members include the Chandigarh MP, the UT Chief Secretary and the Education Secretary alongside senior Punjab officials.
- Punjab education minister Harjot Singh Bains condemned the changes as “political vandalism” and said the state will pursue legal and constitutional remedies.
- SAD’s Harsimrat Kaur Badal asked Chancellor C. P. Radhakrishnan to withdraw the notification as AAP, Congress and SAD alleged a centralisation push by the BJP; no reversal has been announced.