NSUI wins numbers game, ABVP the big ones

INDORE: In the student union elections held on Monday, National Students Union of India (NSUI) bagged

student council posts

in

majority of the private colleges

of the city while

Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad

(ABVP) boasted of its victory in most of the colleges with strength of over 500 students.

The NSUI claimed to have won in 107 colleges out of the total 125 in Indore, whereas ABVP announced its victory in over 33 colleges.

Both

ABVP and NSUI claimed their victory

in colleges, where the four student council posts were divided between the two parties. At some college the council was also suspended by the authorities. “We have been victorious in 107 colleges. The prominent colleges where NSUI has shined include Gujarati Innovative College, SD Bansal College, BM College Softvision College etc,” NSUI spokesperson Pankaj Prajapati said. Meanwhile, the colleges where ABVP marked its victory were Renaissance College, Christian Eminent College, Prestige Institute of Management and Research, MB Khalsa College, Maharaja Ranjeet Singh College etc.

"The ABVP has secured victory at leading colleges of the city where student strength is above 500. We only targeted those colleges which had a more students unlike NSUI, who are claiming victory in colleges which run only on paper," ABVP national secretary Rohin Rai said. The ABVP now plans to carry out a rally of its elected CRs from all colleges.

Meanwhile in some colleges, either the entire council or some of its posts were suspended. “At all the 125 colleges of Indore, which also includes colleges of Mhow, Rau, Sanwer and Depalpur, the student union elections were held peacefully, as the police helped in keeping the situation under control,” said additional director of department of higher education Indore region, KN Chaturvedi.