ABVP rebel bags prez post in RJ university polls, NSUI gets 2

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Press Trust of India Jaipur
Last Updated : Sep 04 2017 | 9:07 PM IST
An ABVP rebel was today elected as the president of Rajasthan University Students Union while the Congress' student wing NSUI bagged two other prominent posts.
The RSS student' wing ABVP secured just one post.
ABVP dissident Pawan Yadav, who contested as an Independent for the president's post, defeated ABVP's Sanjay Machedi and NSUI candidate Deepak Kumar Meena.
The elections were conducted on August 28, result of which was announced today.
Yadav got 5,359 votes whereas his nearest rival Machedi received 2,703 votes, university election officer said.
Nine student leaders were in fray for the post.

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Mahima Chaudhary and Manvendra Budhania of NSUI were elected vice president and general secretary. They bagged 2,649 and 6,082 votes respectively.
ABVP candidate Manisha Meena was elected joint secretary of the union.
There were 23,651 registered voters, but ID cards were issued to only 19,394 students.
Voting for student union elections in government universities and colleges was held on August 28 except for universities and government colleges in Udaipur where polling was held today.
Last year also, an ABVP rebel had won the election to the president's post. The other three seats were bagged by the ABVP.

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First Published: Sep 04 2017 | 9:07 PM IST

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