Maiserkhana Targets AAP Over Education; PHHC Orders Probe Into University Violence

October

2026

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) Sukhveer Singh Maiserkhana has accused his own party's government in Panjab of ignoring the shortage of teachers in government schools in his Assembly constituency Maur. The MLA went live on social media and questioned the AAP government's claims about its achievements in school education, saying the situation on the ground was different. He said when he raised the issue with the party leadership, he was told Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann would call him, but the CM did not contact him. He asked, 'My fight is for schools. How long will I tolerate? What did I do wrong to the party?' He said he expected to be denied an AAP nomination in the upcoming Assembly elections. However, AAP did not wait for elections and suspended Maiserkhana with immediate effect for 'anti-party activities and indiscipline'. Maiserkhana is the only legislator whose children study in a government school. Meanwhile, after the violence at Lovely Professional University (LPU), Phagwara, on 26–27 Sep, the Punjab and Haryana High Court (PHHC) has sought a comprehensive status report from Panjab police, including verification of whether a rape and suicide took place. Taking suo motu cognizance of incidents at LPU and Chitkara University, Rajpura, the Punjab State Women Commission has sought a detailed report from the deputy commissioner and senior superintendent of police in Kapurthala and Patiala districts to conduct inquiries and submit action-taken reports. Concurrently, the founder and Chancellor of LPU, Ashok Mittal, also a Rajya Sabha (Upper House of Parliament) Member, who switched from AAP to Bharatiya Janata Party, said the entire episode is 'a conspiracy' aimed at targeting the university, damaging Panjab’s economy and denting the state’s Hindu-Sikh unity. He said the sexual assault allegation was '100%' false, and that the probe will establish who provoked students. Additionally, according to the revised medical seat matrices released by Baba Farid University of Health Sciences (BFUHS), Faridkot, which handles seat allocation in all of Panjab's medical colleges, the MBBS course has 307 vacant seats, or a 17% vacancy rate across 1,800 seats in government and private medical colleges. Seven private colleges account for 209 vacancies and five government colleges for 98. 175 of the 307 seats reserved for Non-Resident Indians also lie vacant (earlier coverage).