India, Oct. 29 -- New Delhi

Hours after the window for filing nominations for the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union (JNUSU) elections closed on Monday, the university administration put up a notice disallowing members of the Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) from contesting the student body polls.

The notice, dated October 24, read, "The student members of ICC shall also not be eligible to contest JNUSU elections.The addendum will come into effect from the date of issue of this notification."

JNUSU's incumbent president Nitish Kumar, said, "To be sure, the ICC and JNUSU election is happening simultaneously for the first time; the ICC election had happened for the first time around last October. It is absurd that the notice ...