4 min read Chandigarh May 14, 2026 10:52 PM IST Written by Dhruv Noatay The controversy over the omission of Punjabi from newly installed signboards at Panjab University intensified on Thursday, with Aam Aadmi Party MP from Sri Anandpur Sahib, Malvinder Singh Kang, writing to Punjab Governor and Panjab University Chancellor Gulab Chand Kataria, urging immediate restoration of Punjabi on campus signage and calling the exclusion a “painful erasure” of the language from an institution intrinsically linked to Punjab’s identity. The letter came two days after members of student organisation SATH blackened several newly installed signboards across the campus in protest against the absence of Punjabi from nameplates carrying text in Hindi, English and Braille. In his letter, Kang said Panjab University held a “sacred place” in his life as a former president of the Panjab University Students’ Council and former Senate member.…