Jadavpur University Students Election: DSF wins Engineering, WTI bags Science and SFI triumphs in Arts department

Jadavpur University Students Election: DSF wins Engineering, WTI bags Science and SFI triumphs in Arts department

FPJ Web DeskUpdated: Thursday, February 20, 2020, 08:31 PM IST
Jadavpur University Students Election: DSF wins Engineering, WTI bags Science and SFI triumphs in Arts department
Jadavpur University | Prema Rajaram

The counting of votes for the Student Union Election has been concluded in the Jadavpur University, West Bengal on Thursday.

There were 4 seats - President, General Secretary, 2 Assistant General Secretaries (day and evening), in each department of Engineering, Arts and Science.

In the Engineering department, there were 5 seats, one for the Salt Lake campus, all of the seats have been bagged by the 44-year-old pro-Naxalite organization - Democratic Student's Front (DSF). ABVP stood second and TMCP stood third.

In the Science department, We the Independents (WTI) won all the four seats. RSS' student wing Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) had not given any candidate from this department.

In the Arts department, the Left-wing student organization Students' Federation of India (SFI) won all the four seats, while DSF stood second and TMCP stood third.

Elections were also held for class representatives. There were around 600 seats. ABVP fought over 140 seats and won 2 seats from the Arts department.