For the second year in a row in University of Hyderabad alliance between Students’ Federation of India and the Ambedkar Students’ Association (SFI-ASA) won the students union poll.
The united Left combine of the Students Federation of India (SFI) and Ambedkar Students Association (ASA) swept the elections to the Hyderabad Central University Students Union (HCUSU) winning all the positions with a comfortable majority.
The presidential candidate Prashanth polled 1,513 votes and won with a margin on 554 votes while general secretary candidate Sampath of SFI polled 1,442 votes and won with a margin of 492 votes.
Office bearers
The other office bearers who won include Ravi Kumar (vice-president), Srinivas (joint secretary), Mohd. Nazma Begum (cultural secretary), and Subash (sports secretary). Kanthi Nanduri and Manisha Sampath won the posts in the Gender Sensitising Committee Against Sexual Harassment.
The nearest rivals in all the positions were from the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) who polled more than 900 votes for all the posts except the joint secretary post.
The Telangana Students Association (TSA) that associated itself with Bahujan Students Front (BSF) to project the Telangana issue finished third while the candidates supported by the NSUI secured the least votes.
Com. Sambath, who has been elected as the general secretary, said the election is a victory of the ideas upheld by the Students’ Federation of India.
Suresh G, SFI unit president, credited the victory to the achievements of the outgoing union under the same alliance. The average margin of victory of the newly- elected bunch of students was more than 680 votes. It has to be noted that SFI started an unit in HCU only in 2004.
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