Chandigarh, Aug. 23 -- The Panjab University Teachers Association (PUTA) will see a three-cornered contest for their annual polls which will be held on September 2. The incumbent president, AS Naura of biochemistry department, will be facing off again with Ashok Kumar of Hindi department, however this time a third candidate Parveen Goyal will also be in the fray.

While Naura has the backing of Keshav Malhotra, who has been elected unopposed as an executive member, Goyal is backed by the Navdeep Goyal group. He however is not in contention this time and has passed on the baton to new faces from the group. Ashok Kumar is backed by the Sudhir Mehra group, which had contested the last elections under the name Teachers Voice United Forum, but...