The college union elections went peacefully in the steel city except some stray incidents in the Ispat Autonomous College. But due to lyngdoh Commission guidelines, while many posts are still lying vacant in different colleges with many nomination papers rejected, several posts were declared unopposed.
According to final result in the Government Autonomous College, Panposh, while Rohit Mishra was elected as president, Sourabha Munda, Rohit Kujur and Rajesh Kujur were elected as vice president, general secretary and assistant general secretary, respectively. In the Municipal College, Aishwrya Mohanty, Sailendra Dubey and Bishal Agarwal were elected as president, vice president and general secretary, respectively.
In the Priyadarhini Mahila Mahavidylaya, Suchismita Pattanaik, Bobby Singh, Uma Singh and Parbati Singh were elected unopposed as president, general secretary, vice president and cultural secretary, respectively.
While in the Rourkela College, Asutosh Panda was elected as the president, Suryrashmi Das and Sameer Kumbhar were elected as general secretary and vice president. In the Ispat Autonomous College, Tapas Panda, Itishree Jena and Amit Tiwari were elected as president, vice president and general secretary, respectively. In the SG Women’s College, while Payal Dash and Tabasum Begum were elected as general secretary and joint general secretary respectively. The elections for the posts of president and vice president were not held as all the nominations were rejected. In the Neelasaila Mahavidyalaya Pradeep Singh, Prakash Pradhan, Rabindra Munda and Bobby Mundari were elected unopposed as president, vice president, general secretary and joint general secretary, respectively. While BJD student wing claimed maximum success in the union elections in one part, its opposition ABVP also claimed their success in many colleges.