By TCN News,
Aligarh: This year again, no girl student has won any of the top three posts of Aligarh Muslim University Students Union, for which elections were held on Saturday (10th December) and results were announced early Sunday morning. Mr. Syed Sharique Ahmad, student of B.A. (Final) has been elected President of the students body.
Mr. Abdul Quadir Jilani, M.A. (Previous) was declared Vice President and Mr. Hammad Nabi (MSW Previous) as Honorary Secretary of the AMU Students’ Union. The result of the Students’ Union elections was declared early today by the Chief Election Officer Prof. Mahmood S. Khan.
For the post of President and Honorary Secretary, six candidates each were in fray while five contested for the post of Vice Presidentship. The polling was also held yesterday for ten Cabinet Members. Mr. Saeed Ali Rizvi, B. Com. (II Year) secured highest vote and was declared Senior Cabinet. Miss Wajiha Fatima Mehdi, Shakeel Ahmad, Aamir Khan, Md. Kaikubad Ali, Waquar Siddiqi, Shahzad Sami, Mustafa Muqeet, Syed Fahad Hussain and Inzemamul Haque were declared elected out of a total eighteen candidates who were in fray.
The election of three representatives of the students on the University Court was also held on Saturday. Mohd. Asim Khan, Syed Wasif Iqbal and Taushif Alam were declared elected as members of the University Court under faculty of Engineering and Technology, Life Sciences and Social Sciences respectively.
The election of the AMU Students’ Union was held as per the recommendations of the Lyngdoh Committee.
AMU Vice Chancellor, Prof. P. K. Abdul Azis has congratulated all the victorious and contesting candidates and students at large for displaying restraint and bringing into successful culmination the entire process of Students’ Union election in a peaceful manner. He hoped that the elected chair and Cabinet Members will display a heightened sense of responsibility and dignity. The administration has always supported the right causes and is willing to support its productive activities that meaningfully contribute to academic and research ambience in the backdrop of the cut-throat competition, he added.
The Vice Chancellor thanked the Chief Election Officer, Prof. Mahmood S. Khan and his team and hundreds of teaching faculty involved in the poling, counting and other works and Deans of faculties whose constant efforts were primarily instrumental in smooth conduct of just concluded of the AMUSU elections.
AMUSU was established in 1884 as a debating club on the pattern of Oxford and Cambridge Universities and this students’ body has produced great freedom fighters, leaders and statesmen like Dr. Zakir Husain, Ali Brothers, Hasrat Mohani, Sheikh Abdullah and Arif Mohd. Khan, said Dr. Rahat Abrar, PRO, AMU.