The alliance of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) and All Jharkhand Student Union (AJSU) won the Ranchi University (RU) student union election on Wednesday. The unions won all the seats for the five important posts after a gap of nine years. In a clean sweep victory, ABVP clinched three seats whereas AJSU bagged two seats respectively giving a tough fight to its contenders at university level election.
After defeating its opponents in all other State owned varsities in the college level election the Adivasi Chatra Sangh (ACS) and its alliance were seen to be a strong contender for the top slots at student union election but ABVP and AJSU alliance did not let them grab even a single seat.
The student election was conducted for the five posts- president, vice-president, deputy secretary, joint secretary and general secretary. ABVP contestant, Pawan Baraik was elected for the post of president; Puja Kumari from ABVP will serve as vice-president for this term. Nitish Singh from AJSU, Rajkishore Mahato from ABVP including Manoj Kachhap from AJSU will lend their service for the post of secretary, joint secretary and deputy secretary respectively for the stimulated term.
The contestants won the election with good margin of votes. Out of 86 valid votes for the post of president, ABVP candidates grabbed 54 votes. Similarly, the valid vote count for the post of vice-president recorded 80 votes where defeating its counterpart another ABVP contestant won 50 votes. For the post of secretary, AJSU contestant got 53 votes out of total 87 valid votes. In total for the post of joint secretary 82 valid votes was registered, the contestant clinched 49 votes for the specific post. For deputy secretary’s post as well, 87 valid votes were counted where the candidate got 54 votes.
“Our priorities will be development and changing the present status of varsity. Besides, issues like security, up gradation of libraries, bus facilities for girls, provision of toilets etc will be covered at earliest,” said Pawan Baraik, winner of president post and a student of Bero College.
Similarly, Puja Kumari from Ranchi Women’s College, who won the seat of vice-president said, “Staff crunch, regular classes and boosting infrastructure is our priorities beside other issues.”
Notably, Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) has made alliance with All Jharkhand Student Union (AJSU) whereas Adivasi Chatra Sangh (ACS) and Jharkhand Chatra Morcha (JCM) contested the election together. The oath taking ceremony was conducted at RU Administrative Block in the presence of university officials. People of State BJP wing congratulated the winners for their victory. RU officials have assured to provide all essential facilities to the elected contestants as per the varsity statutes.
“All essential facilities will be provided to the elected candidates according to the decree of RU. The term so far has not been fixed yet,” said, RU, Dean Student Welfare, Dr. SC Gupta.
This is the third student union election conducted at RU since its inception in 1962. In the last RU election, AJSU and ABVP won two seats each whereas JCM won the remaining one seat in the student union poll.