Hours after Jamia Millia Islamia administration agreed on Monday to hold students ’ union elections, a section of protesting students have written to Vice-Chancellor Mazhar Asif seeking a revision of the order, arguing that their demands have not been fully addressed.

They point to three main problems: the order sets no fixed timeline for approving the union’s constitution; it does not cover students who have been barred from campus and rusticated, including the hunger strikers; and it records an undertaking by the students to publicly apologise for “defamatory statements/actions/posts,” which they refuse to give.

Two of the five students who have been on hunger strike since October 12 said they will continue it over the ambiguity.…