ABVP sweeps Agra varsity students’ poll

Two days after being routed in the Allahabad University Students’ Union polls, the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) swept the election at Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar University of Agra.

Published on: Oct 17, 2017, 12:00:30 IST

Hindustan Times, Agra | By Hemendra Chaturvedi, AGRA

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Two days after being routed in the Allahabad University Students’ Union polls, the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) swept the election at Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar University of Agra on Monday.

The ABVP candidates won the posts of president, vice-president general secretary and joint secretary. (Representational image)

The ABVP candidates won the posts of president, vice-president general secretary and joint secretary. The library secretary’s post was bagged by an independent candidate.

Abhishek Mishra and Chandrajeet Yadav – both from ABVP – were elected president and general secretary, respectively.

Kritika Solanki of ABVP was elected vice-president while Kunal Diwakar won the joint secretary’s post, making it a near clean sweep for ABVP.

Independent candidate Chanchal Pandey won the election for the post of library secretary. The university recorded 44% voter turnout.

On Saturday, the Samajwadi Chhatra Sabha (SCS), the student wing of the Samajwadi Party, had swept the Allahabad University Student Union (AUSU) polls winning four out of five posts in the election.

While the SCS bagged the posts of president, vice president, joint secretary and cultural secretary, the ABVP could only win the post of general secretary. The ABVP is the student wing of the RSS-BJP.

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Hemendra Chaturvedi
Hemendra Chaturvedi is a senior journalist based at Agra. He covers eight districts of Agra and Aligarh division namely Agra, Mathura, Mainpuri, Firozabad, Aligarh, Etah, Kasganj and Hathras. He had been with HT since 1992 and has completed three decades of association with HT and has worked for Hindustan Times only all through his career of about 35 years. Having Masters in Chemistry, Hemendra is also a law graduate with diploma in Personnel Management and has utilised broad based academic qualifications in his indepth, accurate and high impact stories from this part of western Uttar Pradesh while being based in the city of Taj Mahal. In such long span of career with Hindustan Times, Hemendra Chaturvedi has led his team of reporters which was instrumental in bringing out supplements including Region Scan, Agra Live, HT City time to time and proven his leadership qualities and has made presence of HT felt in the region covered by him. In the process of time, Hemendra has attained expertise in a variety of beats, being sole reporter for HT and has covered Aligarh Muslim University, Taj Mahal centric tourism, religiously sensitive city of Mathura and had been witness to Agra Summit having attendance of top leaders of India and Pakistan.Read More