SFI sweeps Himachal Pradesh Students union elections

SFI made a clean sweep at Himachal Pradesh University students central association (CSA) elections and has held onto its stronghold at the institution. SFI had won all four seats of SCA last year also and has been the dominant outfit on the campus for many years. In a clean sweep, the SFI has won 42 out of 44 seats of various department representatives and a majority of college elections in the capital town of Shimla and the major colleges of the BJP-dominated Kangra and Hamirpur districts.

At HPU Puneet Dhanta was declared winner as president by defeating Deepak Manta of ABVP by a margin of 536 votes. NSUI had put up Naveen Thakur as their candidate.

For vice president, Lokender Kumar of SFI was declared winner, defeating Kumari Shiva of ABVP by a margin of 673 votes. Hoshiar Singh (SFI) defeated Yadunandan of AVBP by 676 votes for the position of general secretary and Manju Thakur (SFI) piped Maheshwar Singh of ABVP by 585 votes. Panel of NSUI candidates Naveen Thakur, Sachin Verma, Ashwani, Anil Kumar ended third in the triangular contest. 

The SFI panel also made a clean sweep at the Government College Kotshera College, Sanjauli Government College of Excellence and Government college Theog. According to the results declared by colleges  the SFI improved its performance by sweeping all the four seats at the Sarkaghat college and wining the top two seats at the Jogindernagar college. In Ram Singh Pathania College, Dehri, the SFI won all the four seats. SFI  swept all the four seats in the MCM DAV College in Kangra. Abeshek Chandel was elected as president, Amit Manhas vice-president, Monika Dhadda general secretary and Abeshek Mehra joint secretary, respectively. Government College, Chowari - Dalhousie, the Students Federation of India (SFI) captured all the four seats: President Vikas Sharma , vice-president Neel Kumar , general secretary Suresh Kumar  and joint secretary Aarti Devi . In Government College, Dehri, all the four seats were won first time by the SFI. Kumar Anubhav, Ruchi Guleria, Hunny and Rohit Guleria, respectively, won the posts of president, vice-president, general secretary and joint secretary.