Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad has captured all the four seats of university level student union in the election held on Sunday at Vinoba Bhave University (VBU) head quarter. The candidates of ABVP Shilpi Kumari, Jay Kant Kumar Paswan, Anil Kothari and Sagar Kumar Singh won the seats of President, Vice President, General Secretary and Joint Secretary making a clean sweep over the opposition student organisations.
Shilpi Kumari of PG VBU won the prestigious post of President of the student union by defeating the only rival Vishal Kumar Mahto of PKRM College Dhanbad by a margin of 52 votes. Shilpi got 132 votes while the candidate of united opposition Mahto managed to get only 80 votes.
Jaykant Kumar Psawan of Giridih College defeated Shalini Kumari of KB Women's College by a margin of 77 votes to capture the post of Vice President. 134 voters voted for Jaykant, 57 for Shalini Kumari and 20 for the third candidate Pallavi Payal of BSSM College Dhanbad.
Anil Kothari of BSK College Maithan was declared elected for the post of general secretary defeating Abhimanyu Kumar of RSP College by a margin of 41 votes. Kothari got 123 votes and Abhimanyu got 82 votes. Nitish Kumar Sao managed to get only 1 vote.
For the post of joint secretary the ABVP candidate Sagar Kumar Singh of Bhadrakali College Itkhori, Chatra got 128 votes, his nearest rival Abhijeet Singh of Annada College got only 77 votes. Pooja Kumari was the third candidate who got only 7 votes.
After the declaration of results of first phase of VBUs student union election it was almost clear that ABVP is far ahead than the other student organizations for the second phase of election. The opposition student unions formed a grand alliance including NSUI, JVCM, AJSU and JCM but failed to give any serious fight to the ABVP candidates. The student organizations of left parties were not with either ABVP or grand alliance. Their only candidate Pallavi Payal managed to get 20 votes for the post of Vice President. 212 voters used their franchise in this election and some of them used the NOTA option for different posts.
In the morning voting started at 9 am in VBU campus and from 3 pm the process of counting begun. At about 4:30 pm the results were announced and then entire campus started echoing with the slogans of enthusiastic and jubilant ABVP workers and supporters. VC Prof. Gurdeep Singh handed over the certificates of being elected to everyone.