ABVP loses on all five seats at Central University of Gujarat

Out of the five student council seats in Gujarat Central University, three were grabbed by Left-leaning student outfits and NSUI. One seat went to independent candidate. Elections were held on all five seats on Friday.

All the five candidates fielded by Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad lost. Birsa Ambedkar Phule Students’ Association, Students’ Federation of India and Left Democratic Students Federation bagged one seat each.

Election were held at five schools at the varsity out of the eleven, which included School of Languages, International Relations, Library Science, Environmental and Social Science.

According to students, BAPSA candidate Ashraf won 114 of total 167 votes in Social Science, Prachi Lokhande of LDSF got 30 out of total 38 votes in International Relations and Chittaranjan from SFI got 94 out of total 166 votes. The other two candidates are Tarun Kumar Ahirwar from Environmental Science and Vijendra Kumar from Library Science of NSUI

“What is interesting is that while BAPSA has been winning for three years, SFI and LDSF fielded candidates for the first time and won seats,” said Sumedh, a leader as quoted by Ahmedabad Mirror. ABVP has issued a note stating the university has violated its own norms to help Left-leaning students win in the election. They alleged that the varsity was supposed to keep classes closed on the voting day on January 22; however, the laboratory and others were functioning, preventing students from voti