Cong's NSUI trounces RSS' ABVP in Gujarat University polls

Congress' National Students' Union of India on Monday won a majority of seats in Gujarat University's 'student senate' and 'board of student welfare', polls for which were held on Sunday. NSUI won six of eight student senate seats while Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parish (ABVP), RSS's students wing, h to settle for wins on remaining.

Of 14 board of student welfare seats, NSUI won 9 while ABVP mand to get five. As per rules, student senate elections must be held every year while tenure of board of welfare is three years. However, elections were t held since 2016. While polls results were being anunced in University campus, police and ABVP members h heated arguments over shifting a vehicle belting out songs in celebration through an amplifier system. Some ABVP members alleged police used excessive force on m, a charge denied by latter.