PU Elections 2022: AAP student wing, CYSS, candidate Aayush Khatkar becomes President

Panjab University Student Council elections: In a major victory of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), its student wing Chhatra Yuva Sangharsh Samiti (CYSS) won a landslide majority in the Panjab University Campus Students’ Council (PUCSC) elections on Tuesday. With this, Aayush Khatkar, an LLM student at the University Institute of Legal Studies, has become the campus president. CYSS received a total of 2712 votes. With 1763 votes, the ABVP finished in second. NSUI came in third place, while SOI came in fourth. Notably, the student wing of the Aam Aadmi Party, Chhatar Yuva Sangharsh Samiti, has contested student union elections at Panjab University for the first time.

Panjab University Elections 2022 | Votes

CYSS - 2712 ABVP - 2052 NSUI - 1582 SOI - 1336 SFS - 864 SATH - 382 PSU (Lalkaar) - 411 PUSU - 408 NOTA - 172

Panjab University Elections 2022 | Winners

President: Aayush Khatkar (CYSS) Vice President: H.S. Baath (NSUI) General Secretary: Parvesh Bishnoi (INSO) Joint Secretary: Manish Boora (NSUI) Notably, the student union elections in Panjab University and its affiliated colleges located in Chandigarh (Panjab University) were held after two years due to the pandemic. In these elections, 21 candidates competed for 4 posts in the university. These posts include the posts of President, Vice President, General Secretary and Joint Secretary. Also Read | Jayalalithaa death case: Panel holds Sasikala guilty, calls for probe Voting started at 9.30 am and ended at 11 am. Chetan Chaudhary of the Student Organization of India (SOI) won the previous student union elections held at the university in the year 2019 and became the campus president. Earlier in the year 2018 Kanupriya University of Students for Society (SFS) won the post of president. She became the first woman president in the PU Students' Union elections. Also Read | Drug menace in Punjab: Two siblings in their 20s die due to overdose in Amritsar -PTC News