Deploring the growing culture of politics taking precedence over academics in colleges and universities, the Supreme Court on Monday asserted that a student's priority should ideally be education and nothing else.
"You are in the college for studies or politics? What is your priority? Pursuing studies, or party affairs? a Bench of Justices Arijit Pasayat and L K Panta, questioned the counsel for the National Students Union of India (NSUI), the student wing of the Congress.
The bench observed that parents spend their hard earned money for sending the children to pursue education but not politics.
"You are in the college not as a member of a political party, but as an individual pursuing studies," the bench remarked when the counsel tried to submit that the G M Lyngdoh Committee did not give the NSUI an opportunity to express its views before passing a slew of guidelines for the conduct of elections in universities.
The bench made the observations while reviewing the status of the implementation of the committee's recommendations in universities as directed by the apex court.
Source:/www.hindu.com, 30th Oct,2007
