Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 6: Fate of the contesting candidates was sealed in ballot boxes as elections for the first-ever Jammu University Students Union (JUSU) were held today on the varsity’s main campus.
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Counting of the votes will be later on as the Court has restrained JU from declaring the results. The next date of hearing in the case is October 9 and till then, there will be no counting of votes while on October 10, JUTA elections are scheduled to be held.
The JUSU elections were conducted only for posts of president, vice-president and joint secretary as JU decided to postpone the elections for the post of secretary following the court’s direction in favour of an aspirant to contest.
This was second and final phase of the elections and there were 12 candidates in fray for the three posts.
In the first-phase, the elections were held for Class Representatives (CRs) and Department Representatives (DRs) on September 25. An Executive Council of 70 members comprising 46 CRs and 24 DRs was constituted and they formed the Electoral College for the elections to office bearers of JUSU.
According to a JU spokesperson, there was 100 percent polling in the second phase of elections, which were held peacefully. The ballot boxes were sealed in front of contesting candidates and the decision on counting of votes will be decided after the court decision.
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