Patna: The Patna University administration on Tuesday restricted Left-backed college counsellors from taking oath on the Patna College campus.

Around 18 victorious college counsellors from Left-backed students' organisation All India Students Federation (AISF), and members of the Jan Adhikar Chhatra Morcha and All India Students' Association were to take oath at a function organised by these students' outfits. The function was planned at the Patna College grounds at 3pm.

Members of the CPI-affiliated AISF, Jan Adhikar Chhatra Morcha, AISA and others had even put up banners and posters about the parallel oath-taking ceremony.

However, Patna University authorities, in a bid to thwart the plans of these organisations, barred entrance to the Patna College campus and deployed a large police contingent at the gates.

Around 2.30pm, some of the members from the AISF, Jan Adhikar Chhatra Morcha and other outfits tried to enter the college campus but were stopped.

Gautam Anand, a member of Jan Adhikar Chhatra Morcha, said: "We have been asking the Patna University administration to cancel the election process. The students' union election was marred by large-scale bungling and anomalies, but the university administration has not accepted our demands."

"As the university administration has not accepted our demands, we had decided to hold an independent oath-taking ceremony," he added.

However, the varsity administration is in no mood to accept any parallel students' organisation. A senior official of Patna University, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said: "Opportunity was given to all students' organisations to show their strength in the election. But the students' organisations opposing the Patna University Students' Union (Pusu) fared poorly. Now, the same organisations are opposing Pusu."