Scenes from the victory march taken out by SFI on HCU campus. Hyderabad: The United Front for Social Justice (UFSJ) has won all posts in the elections held for the students' union of the University of Hyderabad for 2016-17, beating ABVP.
After a day-long process of counting the votes polled on September 28, the results were announced late last night, said a release from University of Hyderabad, popularly known as Hyderabad Central University (HCU).
The election gained prominence as it is the first polls conducted after the suicide of Rohith Vemula, a research scholar on the campus in January. The campus witnesses prolonged strike following Vemula's suicide. However, the Amebedkar Students' Association (ASA), of which Vemula was a part, could not win any seat in the election. ASA contested the polls alone against SFI-led UFSJ and the ABVP-OBCA alliance.
The UFSJ won all the posts, with its candidate Kuldeep Singh Nagi winning president's post by securing 1,406 votes against Gopal Krishna of AVBP-OBCA who secured 1,354 votes.
The vice-president's post was won by Bukya Sunder of UFSJ securing 1,701 votes against Aditya of AVBP-OBCA who got 1,405 votes.
Suman Damera of UFSJ won the general secretary's post by securing 1,842 votes against Anand Rao of ABVP-OBCA who got 1,503 votes.
The joint secretary's post was won by Pilli Vijay Kumar who got 1,557 votes against Ajit of ABVP-OBCA who secured 1,351 votes.
The students' groups that stood for elections this year included Ambedkar Students' Association (ASA), USFJ, and the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) along with the OBC Association (OBCA), the third major group contesting.
UFSJ comprises Students' Federation of India, Dalit Students' Union, Tribal Students' Forum, Bahujan Students' Front and Telangana Vidyarthi Vedika.
The cultural secretary's post went to Nakhrai Debarma of UFSJ who won 1,823 votes against Shanti of ABVP-OBCA who secured 1,594 votes.
Similarly, UFSJ's Ushnish Das won the post of sports secretary securing 1,790 votes against Nanda of ABVP-OBCA who got 1,632 votes, the release added.
(With agency inputs)
