AU student polls today,first in seven years

Students’ elections will also be held in three other constituent colleges of Allahabad University — Allahabad Degree College,CMP Degree College and Ishwar Sharan Degree College.

The union,which was dissolved after the 2005 elections,was revived late last year in the backdrop of Assembly elections,in which Congress and SP sought to take credit for resumption of the AUSU.

There are at least four candidates with criminal antecedents. Three of them were involved in incidents in the run up to the elections. One of them,Abhishek Singh alias Michael,is contesting from jail. Michael has a criminal record and had earlier been booked under the Gangster Act. His friend-turned-foe Abhishek Singh alias Sonu (whom he shot at on July 16 following an altercation on putting up a banner outside women’s hostel) is also in the fray.

AU PRO,Prof P K Sahu,said: “In so far as the campus is concerned,we have made every effort to uphold the recommendations of the Lyngdoh Committee. No convicted candidate is in the fray.”

Election officer,Prof B N Singh said the students whose names had cropped up in criminal incidents were cleared during nomination after taking due reports from Colonelganj police station.