Overview
- Police sealed most campus gates, set up checkpoints across Chandigarh and the Mohali border, and declared two university holidays with entry limited to ID holders.
- Protesters broke barricades at Gate No. 1, prompting a mild lathi-charge as crowds poured onto campus and traffic gridlocked key approaches between Chandigarh and Mohali.
- Panjab University says it has submitted a detailed Senate election timetable to the Chancellor, the Vice-President of India, and is awaiting approval.
- The Ministry of Education withdrew its October 28 order that would have cut the Senate to 31 from 91 members and replaced elections for the Syndicate with nominations.
- Farmer unions, Sikh organisations and opposition leaders joined the agitation, while student groups say they will maintain the shutdown until official poll dates are publicly declared.