PU students created history as they select the first woman PUCSC president
PU students created history as they select the first woman PUCSC president Panjab University (PU) students scripted history on Thursday as they selected their first woman Panjab University Campus Students’ Council (PUCSC) president. Kanupriya of the Students for Society (SFS) defeated her nearest rival Ashish Rana of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, students’ wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), by a margin of 719 votes.
Daler Singh, a geology student from the Indian Students Association (ISA), was leading right from the beginning and finally won by a margin of 928. He got 3,155 votes, while his nearest rival Pardeep Singh (Saharan), a student of the department of laws, from the NSUI, received 2,227 votes. The victory margin was the highest in the elections.
UIET student Amarinder Singh, from the Indian National Students Organisation (INSO), emerged victorious as secretary. He received 2,742 votes, while NSUI’s Arun Kadyan, a student of the dental department, got 2,409. The victory margin was 333 votes.
NSUI’s Vipul Atray, from the UIET, won the joint secretary’s post. He polled 2,357 votes against UILS’ Hemant Sharma, from the Haryana Students Association (HSA), who got 2,274 votes. The victory margin was the lowest at 83. Atray was the youngest candidate as he is just 19 years old.
-PTC News
