The students union of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) here on Wednesday had held a referendum over the attendance issue to show the strength of their support to the administration.
JNU had seen a number of protests by the union and other political factions since this January, when the administration stipulated a minimum attendance criterion, making 75 percent attendance mandatory for all students.
The referendum, which had been conducted in two phases in the campus, began at 9 a.m. and continued till 8 p.m.
The decision to hold the democratic exercise was taken by the union after administration’s labeling of the past agitations, a handiwork of few students and which did not have the support of the majority.