India, Nov. 2 -- The Centre's decision to bring sweeping changes in the Senate and Syndicate of Panjab University (PU) has not gone down well with Punjab's political parties who are seeing it as an attempt to "erode the state's rights".

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) termed it a political vendetta against Punjab, with its leader and state education minister Harjot Singh Bains stating, "This reckless move by the Centre tramples on Punjab's hard-earned autonomy, academic freedom and constitutional rights. It is a blatant assault on the very soul of Punjab. How dare the Centre dismantle a six-decade-old democratic institution?"

He further said, "In the last Senate elections for the Graduate Constituency, people of Punjab elected their own represent...