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While girls’ hostels are shut after 8 pm, the main gates of the boys’ hostels close after 11.30 pm. His support came two days after violence erupted on the campus in which 10 students were injured and hospitalised. (Express photo by Jasbir Malhi)Patiala MP Dharamvir Gandhi met the protesting students at Punjabi University, Patiala, on Thursday and extended his support, saying that though he “believed” in the demand for 24-hour open girls’ hostels, there should be parity in hostel timings for boys and girls as of now. There should be no gender discrimination on the basis of hostel timings and the authorities should focus on parity of timings,” he said. This is the only university in Malwa region and it’ll be sad if the V-C fails to control the situation..