{"id":280223,"date":"2026-03-27T01:46:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T20:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=280223"},"modified":"2026-03-27T01:46:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T20:16:18","slug":"questionable-conduct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/27\/questionable-conduct\/","title":{"rendered":"Questionable conduct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The repeated suspension of routine activities at Dera Natung Government College (DNGC) highlights a worrying trend in which academic priorities are being sidelined due to violent All Arunachal Pradesh Students&#8217; Union (AAPSU) elections politics.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The fact that DNGC had opposed the use of its campus but was not heeded suggests that the district administration failed to obtain proper consent from the college authorities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With gates locked and residents living in fear, the college environment has ceased to be a safe educational space, raising serious concerns about the security of both students and staff.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The disruption has extended beyond DNGC, also affecting Rajiv Gandhi Government Polytechnic. The district administration&#8217;s decision to permit the election on campus has effectively thrown these institutions into chaos.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The AAPSU, instead of fostering democratic engagement, has increasingly led to aggression and unrest, becoming a troubling hallmark of the union itself. Given the union&#8217;s scale and history, student elections of this magnitude should be conducted at neutral venues, rather than active academic campuses to prevent disruption and conflict, alongside long-term policy reforms to better regulate the conduct of student elections.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The repeated suspension of routine activities at Dera Natung Government College (DNGC) highlights a worrying trend in which academic priorities are being sidelined due to violent All Arunachal Pradesh Students&#8217; Union (AAPSU) elections politics. The fact that DNGC had opposed the use of its campus but was not heeded suggests that the district administration failed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-280223","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-editorial"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280235,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280223\/revisions\/280235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}