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9 JNU councillor posts for YFE

Parul Sharma

Final results of Student Union polls for central panel to be announced today

Latest update said AISA had a ‘comfortable lead’ for the president, general secretary’s post
A “neck-to-neck” race on between AISA and SFI
for the post of joint secretary

NEW DELHI: Barring the School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies for which counting of votes was still on until late at night, election results for the posts of councillors in different schools and centres at Jawaharlal Nehru University here were declared on Saturday.

As many as 3,774 votes were polled in the elections to the students’ union on Friday.

Of the 26 results declared so far, nine have gone to Youth for Equality, five to the Students’ Federation of India and four each to the All-India Students’ Association and the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad and two to the National Students’ Union of India. Two independent candidates have been elected as councillors, one each at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance and the School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies (part-time).

The counting of votes polled in the elections to the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union continued the whole day on Saturday and the final results of the central panel will be announced on Sunday morning.

Of the five councillors elected to the School of International Studies, two are from NSUI, as many from AISA and one from SFI.

The Left parties have swept all the five posts in the School of Social Sciences. SFI has won three posts, while AISA emerged victorious in two seats. ABVP has made a clean sweep in the School of Environmental Science with its candidates winning all the three posts. Its candidate has also been elected as a councillor at the Special Centre for Sanskrit Studies.

As expected, Youth for Equality has done well in the science schools. Its candidate has been elected at the School of Physical Science. They have swept all the three posts of councillors in the School of Computer and System Science. The YFE contenders for the post of councillors have been elected unopposed in the School of Biotechnology (one seat), Bioinformatics Centre (one seat) and the School of Life Science (three seats). The councillor’s seat at the School of Arts and Aesthetics has gone to the SFI candidate.

Akanksha Kumar and Sharda Vishwanathan are the two new student representatives in the Gender Sensitisation Committee Against Sexual Harassment.

Till 9 p.m. on Saturday, the AISA had a “comfortable lead” for the post of president, vice-president and general secretary, while there was a “neck-to-neck” race between AISA and SFI for the post of joint secretary.

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