The students’ union polls passed off peacefully in several colleges in and around the Silk City on Wednesday, barring stray incidents.
Tight security arrangements had been made in almost all colleges.
The results declared in the afternoon on the day showed Prabhat Kumar Nayak was elected as president in the lingaraj law College. Jashobant Nayak and Mithun Kumar Nayak won vice-president and secretary posts, respectively.
Those elected in the Sashi Bhusan Rath Government Women’s College include Sweta Kumari Satapathy as president, Vaisali Rath as vice-president and Anmesaw Mohanty as general secretary.
In the Binayak Acharya College, mostly girls were elected. While Shibani Sethi was elected as president, Rajesh Kumar Rout and Ganesh Sahu were elected as vice-president and secretary, respectively.
Similarly, those who emerged victorious in the Brahmapur City College include K Tapan Kumar Reddy as president, Jitendra Mohanty as vice-president and Prasant Kumar Behera as secretary.
In the Khallikote Junior College, K Sai Kumar was elected as cultural secretary.
The premier Khallikote (Autonomous) College got Ratan Kumar Digal, Sekhar Behera and Nabojyota Gouda as president, vice present and secretary, respectively.
Interestingly, all the contestants were elected unanimously in the Brahmapur University, making a history. Rakesh Kumar Sadangi, Gyanranjan Sahu and Pramod Kumar Senapati were elected as president, vice-president and secretary, respectively.
It was alleged that a former stakeholder of the university spent huge amount of money to get his candidates elected unopposed.