Saffron syndicate at MS University

VADODARA: It was Sangh Parivar all the way at the M S University syndicate elections held here on Friday. The six seats of the general category were all won by persons supported by the BJP.
The winners included Mukund Shah who secured 71 votes, R C Patel, Neela Dongre, Dr Prakash Shah, Rajendra Trivedi and Deepak Shah.
In the deans category S K Tiwari and M D Mohite won with 61 and 51 votes while R G Kothari could muster only 50 votes.In the teachers category the BJP had two of its candidates, Shashi Tuteja and Satish Patel,who won with 48 and 46 votes, while V S Patel defeated his nearest rival I I Pandya by just one vote.
The syndicate elections this time saw an unprecedented BJP presence and even BJP office bearers and municipal corporators arrived at the MSU campus to campaign for their selected members.
This time the MSU elections have thrown up big names as losers including Jung Bahadur Rajput, who lost by two votes, I I Pandya and Narendra Parmar amongst others.
During voting, minor disturbance occurred after Pandya protested that some BJP supporters were leading voters into the booth and were "guiding" them to caste their mandate in favour of particular candidates. This forced the vice-chancellor to intervene and bring back normalcy.