Final results of FSU polls to be out in some days: TU

By A Staff Reporter,Kathmandu, Mar. 22: The final results of the elections for Free Students Union in hundreds of campuses under the Tribhuvan University (TU) will come out in a few days, said TU officials.

According to Pashupati Adhikari, executive director at the Student Welfare and Sports Directorate of TU, a majority of the campuses completed the elections under the direct system while that under the proportionate system was still underway.

Students of the campus elect the president, secretary, treasurer, and fifty percent of the members through the direct electoral system and the vice-president, joint-secretary and the remaining members through the proportional system.

"The TU plans the election, but it is up to the campuses to conduct the election or not. However, we have been in talks with the election officials in campuses where elections were suspended, uncertain and rescheduled," said Adhikari.

Talking to The Rising Nepal, Adhikari informed that the campuses where direct election system was completed will now start the process to nominate individuals under the proportional system on the basis of the votes the respective group or party secured.

According to Section 10(6) of the Free Students Union Election Directive, 2079, a respective group can recommend the names of certain individuals for certain posts from the name registered previously under the proportional system within a week from the day the voting was completed. If not, the election committee will elect individuals under the basis of seriality.

"FSU election seems simple but has a lengthy process. We will be able to provide an overall result of the FSU elections across the campuses only after the proportional election system is completed," said Adhikari.

According to the TU, it has 62 constituent campuses and 1,062 affiliated campuses providing education to thousands of students under 40 different departments. 

Among them, elections didn’t take place in the scheduled date on March 19 in 13 constituent campuses across the country, of which seven were of the Kathmandu Valley.

Elections were also suspended in a couple of campuses on March 19 due to vandalism and dispute. 

In the recently received results from different campuses across the country, Nepal Students Union (NSU), student wing of Nepali Congress, representatives won in all but one position in Ramsworup Ramsagar Multiple Campus of Janakpurdham. Only the secretary post was won by Karan Sah of Loktantrik Students Forum, the student wing of Loktantrik Samajwadi Party.

In Jhapa district, where there are 13 campuses, the FSU elections were completed in 10 campuses. Only Garamani Multiple Campus elected a committee unanimously, and re-election has been scheduled in Gauradaha Multiple Campus and Kakadvitta Multiple Campus.

In the other 10 campuses, NSU won in five campuses and CPN-UML's ANNFSU won in other five. 

ANNFSU candidates Sandesh Dhamala was elected president of Mechi Multiple Campus with 960 votes, Chetan Acharya in Kankai Multiple Campus with 414 votes and Pradip Bardewa in Sita-Ramesh Multiple Campus with 206 votes. Likewise, ANNFSU also won in Gauriganj Multiple Campus and Gauradaha-based Agriculture Campus.

Meanwhile, NSU candidates won in Damak Multiple Campus with Sobim Neupane as the president (1,044 votes); Tridev Campus with Arjun Gautam president (281 votes); Kankai Adarsha Campus with Kiran Gurung president (765 votes); Indra Chandra Campus with Pawan Dahal president (390 votes); and Shanischare Multiple Campus with Bishal Thapa president (277 votes).

In Dharan-based Mahendra Multiple Campus, ANNFSU (Socialist), student wing of CPN-US, candidate Yubaraj Rai was elected the president.

Abhinav Guragain in Hattisar Campus from the joint panel of NSU and ANNISU (Revolutionary), student wing of CPN (Maoist), and Nabin Shrestha in Purwanchal Engineering Campus from the joint panel of NSU and ANNFSU (Socialist) were elected the president.

NSU candidate Jaswant Poudel was also elected the president by the students in Biratnagar-based Mahendra Morang Adarsh Multiple Campus.

"We believe that the campuses will complete the necessary election process at the earliest to fianlise the list of elected candidates from both direct and proportional system. Process for election in the remaining campuses are also underway," said Adhikari, who is also the member-secretary at TU FSU Election Central Inspection and Coordination Committee.