Chandigarh, Aug. 24 -- The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) released its manifesto on Saturday.

The party took credit for getting PU to consider women's reservation for the PUCSC council. While this has been postponed to the next session now, the ABVP, in their manifesto, proposed permanent reservation of seats at the departmental level for the Department Representative elections.

When asked why ABVP had not protested when PU authorities had delayed the women's reservation issue in PUCSC elections for a year, ABVP national secretary Aditya Takiar said that they are looking into the legalities as per the Lyngdoh Committee recommendations. Takiar said they had even requested all parties to have at least one woman on their panel. ...