The elections for one of the oldest teachers’ unions of India, Panjab University Teachers Association (PUTA) concluded on Thursday with Devinder Singh winning the President’s post by getting 366 votes defeating Mohammad Khalid who managed to get only 223 votes.
Ashok Sabhrawal was elected the vice president winning the election with a whooping 366 votes. Mohammad Khalid, Associate Professor from department of evening studies was the president for the year 2012-2103. But this year he was defeated by Dr Devender Singh who earlier said that he has n the teacher’s of the university who are looking for a change.
Other teachers to be elected in the panel are Parveen Goyal in the post of secretary. Goyal is from UIET department, which is the most coveted department for candidates contesting the election as it has maximum representation in term of teacher strength.
Harveen Kaur from the department of dental sciences was elected as the joint secretary and Jivesh Bansal as the treasurer. There were others who were elected in various executive groups after month long election fervor came to an end.
Devinder Singh was in an ecstatic mood after winning and he said, “I am happy with the currently elected office bearers and will try to work as team with them to put the issues faced by the teacher before competent authority on priority basis. I will work as per our election manifesto with utmost dedication and transparency.”