Even though the police had made elaborate security arrangements, the Students’ Union elections passed off peacefully in various colleges across the State on Saturday.
The election results were declared in the evening. later, the victorious candidates and their supporters celebrated their victories by holding motorbike rallies and fireworks in their campuses in the state.
In Ramadevi Women’s University, Soubhagya Soumyashree Samal supported by the Biju Chhatra Janata Dal (BCJD) won as president. Similarly in the Rajdhani College, Rajat Kumar Parida was elected president. Punyabrata Das and Subhendu Kumar Amat won as president in Jagatsinghpur SVM College and Angul Autonomous College, respectively.
Earlier, tension gripped the Ramadevi Women’s University here during the Students’ Union poll over alleged distribution of cash among students to fetch votes.
A group of students alleged that BCJD members were offering Rs 500 to students for voting in the favour of the candidate supported by it.
A photo of a student holding a rose flower and a Rs 500 currency note went viral on social media adding fuel to the fire. However, the BCJD has rubbished the allegation.
Notably, pre-poll violence has marred most of the prominent colleges and universities where the campus poll has been cancelled this year. The BCJD claimed to have won the polls in 95 per cent of the colleges in the State.