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Kathmandu. CPN-UML leader Pradeep Gyawali has termed the proposal to ban student unions from universities as highly undemocratic. Gyawali expressed this reaction via social media after the government prepared to abolish student organizations in universities. Gyawali stated that establishing security units in universities for the purpose of banning student organizations is an interference with academic autonomy. According to Gyawali, the decision to ban student organizations is an encroachment upon the autonomy of the universities. Gyawali questioned how the Vice-Chancellors could have signed off on this, noting that even during the Panchayat era, the government did not dare to ban student organizations. 'How could...