Ludhiana, Dec. 7 -- Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) students, who have been staging a protest for the past 72 days demanding recruitment to vacant positions in the agriculture department, said the state government should accept their demands at the earliest.

The protest started on September 26. "We have met the governor, cabinet ministers and senior bureaucrats. We want immediate recruitment in agriculture department, Mandi Board, horticulture department, Markfed, Punjab Seed Corporation and other related departments besides creation of agriculture teachers' post," said the students' union.

On 5 December, the agitators met Narinder Singh Benipal, joint director of the agriculture department. Angrej Mann from the students' union sai...