The elections will start at 8am Saturday and end at 2pm. The voters will need to come without carrying any bags, mobiles or other paraphernalia by way of ensuring security. They must carry their ID card. The results will be declared the same day. The oath-taking ceremony of the winning candidates would be held on Monday.
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BHUBANESWAR: Amid fanfare, candidates made forceful presentations here Friday of what they are up to if they are elected in Saturday’s student union polls – marking the end of campaigns that witnessed much frenzy, heat and dust, and substantial violence besides the many promises to change the face of campuses. Candidates held out in style at the What I Stand For events across colleges, presenting their fancy plans and priorities to students who would line up at voting booths a day later. In all the colleges including the Ramadevi Women’s University, the Rajdhani College, the Capital Law College etc, the candidates were ushered in on the daises amid loud sounds,
excitement and an extravaganza in slogan-shouting.
In Ramadevi, the candidates arrived with their supporters in energetic espousal of their causes. At first, BCJD candidate Soubhagya Soumyashree Samal and his flock arrived. This was followed by ABVP’s Tanmayee Hota and later Sushree Sangita Mohapatra of the NSUI with her band of supporters. The candidates reached the auditorium and positioned themselves for a while before which they were called to speak up, one by one. First spoke the presidential candidate, then the vicepresidential nominees, then the general secretary, joint general secretary, athletic secretary hopefuls, and finally the cultural secretary, who all held forth in animated styles about what they would do for the student com
munity, given a chance to lead them from the front. The candidates were given a time limit of five minutes to speak, but those hoping to be the cultural secretary had the pleasure of getting an extra minute, making it a total of six minutes, as they had to do some performance too to impress the voters about their ability to lead the events for a year from the front. Before the main event, the college authorities made it a point to hold a talk on the killer blue whale game, which had taken many young lives across the world including a few in the state too. After spreading some awareness about this, the candidates started their ‘show’.
BCJD nominee Soubhagya Samal said that the university is the second women’s university in the country and the first in the state. This, she stressed, was a matter of pride for all its students. She said that development “is a process that requires time to materialize,” but “she will work hard to realize the goals” with her team, and of course with support from teachers as also the university authorities. She would work for implementation of the UGC guidelines for students in getting scholarships and fellowships. “There is the need for starting a new hostel facility for fresh students. I will work for the immediate starting of a new 400 bed hostel for the students.”
NSUI nominee Sushree said that in terms of age and experience, she was very junior as compared to the other candidates. She will work for preparation of the practice ground for the National Cadet Corps (NCC) students. Tanmayee Hota said that as students of the university, “we should not hesitate to work for development of the college; and for this, we must first make clear our good intentions. Then the forward march will be smooth.”
event in Rajdhani College
In Rajdhani College, Sujit Dalai, Snehasis Jagdev and Tapan Marka explained their plans for the students and for the campus’s development. Sujit said infrastructure and teacher recruitment were matters of top priority for him to pursue. In the final lap of the campaign Friday, a group clash occurred at Deba Rai College, during the What I Stand For meeting. A group hurled some provocative comments on another group, leading to a clash. Some students were detained
