Chandigarh: After a long time, rejecting the national political parties, independent candidate Anurag Dalal has won the post of President of Punjab Student Council. Anurag Dalal, a chemistry student of Rohtak Chiri, won the student union elections in PU by defeating Chhatra Yuva Sangharsh Samiti (CYSS) candidate Prince Chaudhary by a huge margin of 303 votes. After a long period of 45 years in PU student council politics, now the time has come that the students have defeated the student organizations ABVVP, NSUI, SOI and CYSS supported by national political parties and gave victory to an independent candidate. There were nine candidates for the post of President of PU Student Council, including three independent candidates and three girl students. After the voting till 12 noon, Anurag Dalal took the lead in the first round of counting, which continued till the last round. Anurag got 3433 votes while Prince, who gave him a tough fight, had to face defeat by 3130 votes.
The post of vice president was occupied by NSUI, the post of secretary was occupied by INSO and the post of joint secretary was occupied by ABVP.
In the students' union meeting held on Thursday, independent candidates won the post of president, while Archit Garg of NSUI won the post of vice-president, Vineet Yadav of INSO won the post of secretary and Jaswinder Rana of ABVP won the post of joint secretary. In the students' union elections 2024-25, ABVP and NSUI were fighting alone, while INSO had an alliance with CYSS and independent candidate Anurag Dalal had an alliance with SOPU.
Check PU student union election results here-
A total of 13 student organizations participated in the PU student union elections along with independent candidates. There were nine candidates for the post of principal, five for the post of vice principal, four for the post of secretary and six for the post of joint secretary. After voting till 12 noon in the PU campus on Thursday, the counting of votes took place, in which various candidates got votes-
chairman
Candidate Name Student Body Vote
Anurag Dalal Independent Candidate 3433
Prince Choudhary CYSS 3130
Arpita Malik ABVP 1114
young siddhi soi 1061
Alka ASF 205
Mukul Azad 613
Mandeep Singh Azad 14
Sara Sharma PSU Challenge 221
Note- 187
Deputy head
Archit Garg NSUI 3631
Karandeep Singh with 2596
Abhishek Kapoor ABVP 1936
Karanveer Singh Bhatti USO 1567
Shivani Azad 136
NOTA-591
Secretary
Vineet Yadav INSO 3298
Jashnpreet Singh Sopu 2939
Paras Parashar NSUI 2596
Shivanand Rekhi ABVP 961
Note- 631
Joint Secretary
Jaswinder Rana ABVP 3489
Rohit Sharma HPSU 2705
Amit Bang Pusu 1073.
Excellent ISO 1008
Yash Kapasiya NSUI 892
Shubham Azad 659
Note- 621