As results for the Students Union elections at Sree Kerala Varma College at Thrissur, Kerala came in on Thursday, the RSS-affiliated Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) was left with the ignominy of polling zero votes in one seat.
The left-wing Students' Federation of India (SFI) won all 13 seats in the Union. Apart from the Students Union seats, elections were also held to the Secretary posts of various Department Associations. SFI won 16 out of the 17 Department Association Secretary posts.
The remaining seat - Secretary of the Mathematics Association - was won by the All India Students' Federation (AISF).
Students were amused and surprised by the results in the Mathematics Association, as the ABVP candidate polled zero votes. This meant that even the ABVP candidate's own vote went elsewhere.
KS Sanjay Krishna from SFI was elected as the Students Union Chairperson, defeating the ABVP candidate by more than 450 votes. MM Meghna was elected as Vice-Chairperson, KM Adithyan as General Secretary and K Shruthi as Joint Secretary.
Apart from SFI, organisations such as KSU, ABVP, KSU, Fraternity, AISA and AISF had contested the elections.
SFI activists alleged that ABVP had transferred votes to the AISF, triggering the peculiar results in the Mathematics Association. The AISF candidate received 74 votes while the SFI candidate polled 59 votes.
SFI's Victory March at Sree Kerala Varma College