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Student in Council By SUNDAR RAJAN ‘Special to the Tribuse BOMBAY — “Set a thief to catch a thief” is an old say- ing. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi ts trying to do the same thing with rebellious - "She has just ordered a key state to appoint a student to ite council of ministers in the * hope he wil) be the best per- -son to deal with student dis. - 4 ' The appointee is 2%-year-old _ Bhanwar Porte, @ student of ‘the Bhopal Medica! College. } He heard of his assignment as; he was listening to a college ; One columnist here wrote: “We have heard of strdenis ‘becoming government ‘minis- ters shortly after graduating from universities. But this is the first time that a student ‘has been catapulted from the - classroom to the cabinet any- - where in the world.” © & & Madhya Pradesh Wat . where the interesting experi-- ment is being. tried, has been plagued by campus unrest for the past three years. The uni- versities there have become virtual battlegrounds between youth militants and the police. At one stage, the state gover- nor was even thinking in ; terms of appointing a retired , army general as president ‘of “one of the troubled universi- FR C8 ENE tit samme