The much awaited Student Union Election Results have been announced and the oath taking ceremony will be held today. After a gap of eight long years, students union elections in Odisha has returned to the college and university campuses of the state.
The main process of the elections began on October 9 with the filing of nomination papers. The atmosphere on the campuses felt alive.
The student union election results were declared at night amidst unrest and chaos. There was tension and suspense in Ramadevi University and Utkal University all night. High drama continued, police was deployed on campus. Tensions persisted till late at night over the vote counting dispute. The majority student posts of Ramadevi Women’s University Student Council Election has been won by BCJD (Biju Chatra Janta Dal).
However, due to allegations of irregularities in the counting process and the clashes that arose among the student groups, the election results process was delayed for hours. The results were finally declared at around 3 am.
Sonali Behera has been elected as the President, Arpita Mohapatra as the Vice President, Laxmipriya Biswal as the General Secretary and Sudeshna Khuntia as the Joint Secretary.
Meanwhile, ABVP has won in Utkal University. Abhiram Mishra has won the post of President. Similarly, ABVP candidate Ayushree Pradhan has won the post of General Secretary. Jyotishree Sahu of BCJD has been elected as Joint General Secretary and Bak Kumar Majhi of ABVP has been elected as Cultural Club Secretary.
After the declaration of results, ABVP supporters celebrated the victory outside the campus. After the victory, the newly appointed President of Utkal University said that we thank all the students of Utkal University. Our goal will be to end the goonda raj from the Utkal University campus and make it a non-student free campus.
