The eagerly-awaited student union elections in Jawaharlal Nehru University were on Monday deferred by a week after an all-party meeting sought more time to prepare for the process.

The exercise, to be held after a gap of four years, was earlier scheduled to start on Monday with polling on February 23.
However, with the notification from the administration in this regard coming only last Friday, the students felt they needed a little more time.
At an all-party meeting called by the JNUSU Election Committee on Monday, the students proposed a revised schedule and sent it to the administration for ratification.
The new schedule, once approved by the administration, will be publicly displayed on Tuesday.
The fresh tentative programme has proposed March 1 for the polling, while the process of nomination is to be held on February 21.
“Today in the meeting it was decided that the students were not prepared and wanted another week. They have proposed the extension by a week,” said SFI Delhi state committee president Roshan Kishore.
According to the proposed dates, the nomination will be held on February 21. On the next day, the list will be displayed for verification and the same day withdrawals have to take place.
The tentative date for the presidential debate is February 28 before the polling on March 1. The Supreme Court had lifted its stay on elections in JNU last December.