The maiden student’s body polls of constituent colleges of Kolhan University were held under strict security arrangements. Voting was peaceful in all the seven constituent colleges of the city comprising Jamshedpur Cooperative College and Jamshedpur Cooperative law College in Bistupur, Jamshedpur Workers’ College- Mango, ABM College–Golmuri, Graduate School College for Women- Sakchi and lal Bahadur Shastri Memorial College- Karandih) and Jamshedpur Women’s College, with no untoward incidents reported.
Though there were allegations of students distributing pamphlets outside college premises outside Jamshedpur Women’s College in the morning following which two women were handed over to the police for distributing pamphlets in favour of ABVP-supported candidates outside Jamshedpur Women’s College campus. However, the police could not locate the pamphlets and they were released later from the Bistupur police station in the afternoon.
Jamshedpur Women’s College (JWC) principal Sujata Sinha, who is also the returning officer for the election of her college, said that the election was held peaceful without any report of untoward incidents. Security force was provided by the district administration at the college.
Altogether 112 candidates are in fray from seven colleges for the polls. Voting took place in 49 booths made on the basis of number of students with Jamshedpur Women’s College and Jamshedpur Cooperative College having maximum number of booths (12 each) as both have highest number of voters.
Nine booths were set up in Graduate School College for Women while lal Bahadur Shastri Memorial College and Jamshedpur Workers’ College had six and five booths respectively. ABM College and Jamshedpur Cooperative law College had four and one booth respectively. The counting of votes would take place tomorrow and results would be announced same day
In 2007, students’ elections were held in the college here, then part of the Ranchi University. Kolhan University runs 25 colleges that include 14 constituent and eight affiliated colleges and two minority colleges. The Jamshedpur Woman’s College is the lone autonomous college of the university. The elections are for the posts of president, vice-president, general secretary and joint secretary. Undergraduate or postgraduate student registered with the varsity can contest the polls.
Chief election officer-cum-dean students welfare of Kolhan University, Padmaja Sen said that only students who had brought their college identity cards were allowed to vote on Friday.