Chandigarh, Aug. 24 -- For the first time in the party's history, the Students Organisation of India (SOI) has picked a woman - Seerat of the University Institute of Engineering and Technology (UIET) - to fight for the president's post in the upcoming Panjab University Campus Students' Council (PUCSC) elections.

UIET is the biggest department in PU and has a lot of votes. Even last year, SOI, which is the student wing of the Shiromani Akali Dal, had fielded Tarun Sidhu from UIET, though he couldn't make much of an impact.

This year's choice reflects a change in party policy - not only has it gone with a woman candidate, it has also picked a party worker instead of choosing a parachute candidate like it did last year. Sidhu had jumped sh...