VARANASI: The NSUI, the student wing of Congress, retained its hold over the city's Sampurnanand Sanskrit University students' union, winning all seven seats in the elections held on Sunday, reports Binay Singh. BJP's student wing ABVP could not open its account.
The NSUI had swept the SSU students' union polls last year as well. In 2018 and 2019, however, ABVP candidates won the president's post.
Candidates of NSUI won the posts of president, vice-president, general secretary and library secretary this time. Krishna Mohan Shukla has been elected the president while Ajit Kumar Choubey the vice-president. The other winners are Shivam Choubey (general secretary) and Ashutosh Kum-ar Mishra (library secretary).
According to election officer professor Sudhakar Mishra, Shukla with 442 votes defeated ABVP's Ajay Dubey by a margin of 136 votes, while Ajit Choubey polled 411 votes and defeated his rival Chandramauli Tiwari by 68 votes.
Vice-chancellor Rajaram Shukla administered oath to the new office-bearers.