Overview
- PU says it has submitted a detailed Senate election schedule to the Chancellor for approval and declared holidays with restricted campus entry.
- Roughly 2,000 police personnel were deployed, most campus gates were sealed, and checkpoints were set up across Chandigarh and at Mohali border points.
- Protesters broke through barricades and gates, police detained agitators and used a mild lathi-charge, and tensions flared outside the vice-chancellor’s office.
- Farmer unions, Sikh groups and several political leaders joined or backed the agitation, with face-offs at Mohali–Chandigarh borders and reports of police pulling back under pressure.
- Traffic gridlock stretched for kilometres across Mohali, Zirakpur and Chandigarh, while students reported being turned away at gates despite carrying university IDs.