Students’ union election held at MKP College

Tribune News Service

Dehradun, August 30

Students cast votes for the students’ union election at MKP (PG) College here today. The counting of the votes would be done at late night.

The candidates along with their supporters tried to convince voters to cast votes in their favour. No untoward incident was reported during the polling.

A total of 2,750 students cast their votes at four polling booths to choose president, vice-president, general secretary and university representative.

Kavita from the National Students’ Union of India (NSUI), independent Nasreen Jahan, Pooja Rathore from the Vikas Group and Shakshi Shankar from the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarathi Parishad (ABVP) vied for the post of president.

Meenakshi (ABVP), Sophiya (Vikas group) and Raksha contested for the vice-president position.

College Principal Indu Singh said no untoward incident was reported as elaborate security measure was taken for the polling.