Samajwadi party president Akhilesh Yadav has said the success of the candidates of the student’s wing of the Samajwadi party in elections of the students union of Allahabad University as the victory of secularism and socialist ideology. He said the success of the Smajwadi party chatr Sabha has sent a clear message that no government can afford to ignore the interests of the youth and the students and deep resentment prevails among the youth over the anti people and irresponsible policies of the BJP government at the Center and the state.
The Samajwadi Party’s student wing won four of the five seats in the University of Allahabad student union election with huger majority while the RSS affiliated Akhil Bhartiya Vidhyarthi Parishad (ABVP) suffered huge setback and could won only the post of the general secretary. The results of which were declared late Saturday night. While the Samajwadi Chatra Sabha won the president, vice president, joint secretary and cultural secretary posts in the student’s body of the university, the ABVP could win only the post of the general secretary.
Avinash Kumar Yadav of the Samajwadi Chatra Sabha, who was elected to the precedent’s post, beat his nearest opponent Mrityunjay Rao, an Independent candidate, by 552 votes. For the vice president’s post, Chandrasekhar Choudhary beat ABVP Shivam Kumar Tiwari by 72 votes. ABVP’s Nirbhay Kumar was elected to the General Secretary post by beating National Students’ Union of India’s (NSUI) Arpit Singh by 61 votes. A total of 9,181 ballots were cast in the elections.
Congratulating the office bearers of the Allahabad university student’s union SP president said the students in Delhi University, JNU and other universities have registered their strong protest against the anti youth and anti student policies of the BJP government. He said the Prime Minister Narendra Modi had garnered the votes of the youth in 2014 lok Sabha elections by making false promise of giving jobs to 2 crore youth. He said the disappointment of the students and the youth has resulted in the rout of the ABVP in one university after the in different parts of the country.
SP President said the misbehaviour by the students affiliated with the ABVP in Banaras Hindu University with the girl’s students of the university had drawn all round flak as the girls were the victim of violence and eve teasing. He said right from the quit India movement in 1942 Ram Manohar lohia and jai Prakash narayan had been a source of inspiration for the youth and the students.