The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) and Aryan group won five posts out of the six posts in the Garhwal Central University, Pauri student’s union election.
The ABVP and Aryan group have a pact in the election and due to the combined students rallies and campaign, the candidates were ahead of the Congress affiliated National Students Union of India (NSUI) candidates. The ABVP candidates were elected to the posts of the students union president and vice president while Aryan group candidates won the election to the post of joint secretary, treasurer and university representative in the election. The NSUI candidate could get victory only in the poll to the post of the secretary. The polling for the Pauri campus students union election has started at 8 AM and ended at 12.30 PM on Friday. The 1056 voters cast their votes in the election out of the total voters 1619. The election saw 65 per cent polling.The polling and counting of votes were conducted amid tight police security.
The candidate of ABVP for the post of president, Praful Bahuguna defeated NSUI candidate Rajat Kuksal by the margin of 78 votes in a triangular fight. ABVP candidate Praful Bahuguna got 428 votes while NSUI candidate Rajat Kuksal manage to get 350 votes.The independent candidate Shubham Patwal got 255 votes. The ABVP candidate Akash Kukreti defeated NSUI candidate Sonali Mundepee in a straight fight in the election to the post of vice president. Akash got 556 votes while Sonali could secure 436 votes.
NSUI candidate Akash Rawat defeated Aryan candidate Sandeep Rawat in the election for the post of secretary. Akash got 539 votes while Sandeep got 478 votes. The Aryan group candidate won election to the posts of the joint secretary, treasurer and university representative. Kajal Rawat, Aryan candidate, defeated NSUI candidate Nisha Godiyal for the post of joint secretary. Kajal got 624 votes in comparison to 374 votes for Nisha.
Aryan candidate Shubham Kumar defeated NSUI candidate Santosh Singh in the election for the post of treasurer. Shubham got 595 votes while Santosh got only 387 votes. For the post of University representative, Aryan candidate Bharat Bhushan Negi defeated NSUI candidate Gaurav Sagar by the margin of 37 votes. The election was conducted by chief election officer Prof KC Purohit and election officer Rajesh Dangwal.