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Kolkata: After putting student union polls on hold for over two years in four state universities, the West Bengal government has allowed varsities to conduct the elections whenever they deem appropriate. "We have issued a notification to hold students' union elections in the unitary universities (varsities that act as a single unit without any affiliated college under it). He hoped that after conduct of the students' union elections in the four unitary universities, the state government will gradually hold student body polls in other colleges and universities as well. The students of Jadavpur University had staged sit-ins and gheraos in 2017 and 2018 demanding that the students' union polls be held. Representatives of the Students' Federation of India and the Arts Faculty Students' Union (AFSU) had twice met Chatterjee over the demand..