The most prominent results came from DAV College, Sector 10, and Goswami Ganesh Dutta Sanatan Dharma College(GGDSDC), Sector 32, where organised student alliances swept all four major posts. Student council elections across Chandigarh colleges on Monday witnessed a mix of closely fought contests, alliance-driven victories and a sizeable number of candidates getting elected unopposed.
At DAV College, Sector 10, the four-party alliance of the Hindustan Students Association (HSA), Indian Students Organisation (ISO), Himachal Pradesh Students Union (HPSU) and Student Organisation of Panjab University (SOPU) secured a clean sweep, defeating the rival Student Organisation of India (SOI) camp. Only 3451 voted out of 7536 student voters. At GGDSD College, Sector 32, the SDCU-NSUI-HIMSU alliance also swept all four key posts against the Independent Student Front (ISF), HPSU, SOPU camp. The college recorded a relatively low turnout of 38%, with 3,987 of 10,513 registered voters casting ballots.
Even after recounting, the result remained unchanged. Because the winning margin was just of 60 votes, as results came in the evening, SOI opposed the student mandate and protested for recounting for presidential candidates.
Abhiraj Singh won the presidency with 2,189 votes, while Tushar secured the vice-president’s post with 2,312 votes. Aryan Ranta was elected secretary with 2,135 votes and Yugal Bindal as joint secretary with 2,315 votes. Yugal’s 799-vote margin was the largest among the four contests. ISF presidential candidate, Ekamdeep Singh Brar although gained support by collecting 1732 votes but fell short against Abhiraj who is a known face for SD students. At Mehr Chand Mahajan DAV College for Women, Sector 36-A, the provisional list shows Gurleen Kaur as the sole candidate for President. At Dev Samaj College for Women, Sector 45-B, Parneet Kaur was the sole candidate for president and Aashika the sole candidate for secretary.
But, SD students are hopeful that the new alliance will bring positive changes especially installation of air conditioners in college. The same way, Mannat as vice-president and Sargam Pasricha were elected unopposed as secretary. No candidate was listed for joint secretary. The absence of opposition for three of the four top positions makes the college one of the prominent examples of unopposed elections this year. The vice-president and joint secretary posts, however, had two candidates each, making the election a mix of uncontested and contested position. College Student Front (CSF) scores clean sweep at SGGSC
Many students voted for ISF, last year’s winner, for they advocated against huge fines levied against shortage of attendances.
