LUCKNOW, Sept. 5 -- Strongly condemning Monday's police lathicharge on their workers at Shri Ram Swaroop Memorial University, Barabanki, the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) has set a 48-hour ultimatum for the UP government to ensure punitive action against all those, including the university administration, involved in the incident even as it termed it an assault on the democratic values. The ABVP workers will stage demonstrations in district centres across the state to lodge their protest. "If our demands are not met within the set time limit, the student body will be forced to launch a statewide agitation to expose the nexus between police, bureaucrats and the college management," said ABVP national secretary Ankit Shukla at a press conference on Thursday. "The lathicharge incident has left thousands of our workers angry. We demand action against the officer who ordered the lathicharge and the outsiders who reached the campus and beat our workers," he said. "For years, the SRMU has been running its law programme in violation of norms and without proper renewal/approval. Only on Wednesday did the Bar Council of India grant provisional recognition, which clearly proves that the course had been conducted illegally until now. The movement will continue until justice is ensured," he claimed. They also demanded an unconditional apology from and resignation of UP cabinet minister Om Prakash Rajbhar who had criticised ABVP workers for taking law in their hands. In a letter to CM Yogi Adityanath, BJP MLC Devendra Pratap Singh has urged that student union polls should be compulsorily reinstated in all higher education institutions of teh state. He also proposed the recognition of SRMU should be cancelled with immediate effect and a case should be registered under relevant sections against the vice chancellor of the university and the officials of the administration responsible for Monday's lathicharge....