Divyanshu Buddhiraja gets max votes for Haryana Youth Cong president post

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, November 10

Divyanshu Buddhiraja got the maximum votes for the president’s post in the Haryana Youth Congress elections whose results were declared today.

Supported by the Rajya Sabha MP Deepender Hooda’s camp, he got 4.91 lakh votes, while his nearest rival Krishan Satrod got 2.94 lakh votes.

There is a third candidate Mayank Chaudhary, who got 40,862 votes.

Top 3 candidates to be interviewed

All top three candidates will be interviewed by Congress president before being declared president of the state unit of the Youth Cong. —Manoj Saharan, PRO, Elections

Buddhiraja had earlier won Haryana NSUI president’s post in 2017 and also he was president of the Panjab University Campus Students’ Council in 2014.

“I thank both former CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda and Deepender Hooda for the victory,” said Buddhiraja.

“I congratulate the new team. I hope they will raise the voice of Haryana youth and would work for their future,” said Deepender Hooda. According to PRO elections Manoj Saharan, all top three candidates will be interviewed by Congress president before being declared president of the state unit of the Youth Congress.

One of them will be the state president, while the rest of the two will be vice-presidents. “There were about 15 lakh members. Over 9 lakh votes were found valid,” said Saharan.

Krishan Yadav, with 17,507 votes, was declared vice-president (OBC), Parag Sharma with 15,933 votes is new VP (Woman) and Amandeep Singh Belarkha has been declared VP (SC).

For the post of general secretary, Mohit Sharma received the maximum votes at 87,000 and was declared winner. Thirteen more candidates were elected as general secretaries in the open category. Besides, candidates were elected as general secretary reserved for minority, OBC, SC and Woman SC, while eight women were elected for seats reserved for women in the open category too.

President, vice-president and general secretaries have been elected at the district-level and assembly constituency-level too. Former CPS Ram Kishan Fauji’s son Vikas Kumar has been declared president of Bhiwani with 43,691 votes.