AISA-ASA-DSU-SFI-TSF alliance leads in four of six UoH posts
HYDERABAD: The AISA-ASA-DSU-SFI-TSF alliance was leading in four of the six central-panel contests in the University of Hyderabad Students’ Union election on Tuesday night, while it had already won several school-level and GS-CASH seats, as reported by DC.
Dilshada Raihan V.P. was leading the presidential race with 1,674 votes, followed by ABVP-SLVD’s Naresh Podishetti with 1,298 and K. Naveen Kumar of the PDSU-MSF-Fraternity-NSUI alliance with 340 votes. Final results for several central posts were awaited at 23.15 IST.
The trend differed from the 2025-26 election, when the ABVP-SLVD alliance won all six central-panel posts, according to the university’s published results.
Alliance candidates lead in vice-president, general secretary races
Korra Nithin Chauhan of TSF was leading the vice-president race with 1,204 votes against ABVP-SLVD’s Barsharani Behera, who had 1,143.
Pratik of ASA was ahead in the general secretary contest with 872 votes against Venisa Choudhary’s 765. AISA’s Sidhant led Sapthagiri 1,752 to 1,437 in the joint secretary race.
ABVP-SLVD was ahead in two central-panel contests. Madhur had 1,056 votes against ASA’s Abhinash Kumar with 993 in the cultural secretary race. Banoth Sai led DSU’s Villyamkery 883 to 796 in the sports secretary contest.
Counting for the different posts had reached different stages and the figures were not final.
Raihan had highlighted mess fees and student welfare
During the presidential debate, Raihan said her immediate priority would be the mess-fee hike. She also sought menstrual leave across the university, attendance relaxation for chronically ill students and a disabled-friendly, inclusive campus.
She also called for proper implementation of the transgender policy and proposed an internship cell, a university internship policy, a grievance system for students facing problems with internships, and internship and placement fairs.
Raihan had said she was a first-generation learner from a Muslim family in Kerala. During the debate, she said her background as a student from a minority community was one reason she chose to contest, and presented her candidature around student welfare, affordability and access.
The AISA-ASA-DSU-SFI-TSF alliance had already won all five seats in the School of Social Sciences and all three councillor seats in Humanities. It also won all three councillor seats in Physics.
In Economics, AISA’s Sanath and SFI’s Sonu won two of the three councillor seats. ABVP-SLVD won all three councillor seats in the Centre for Integrated Studies.
The completed GS-CASH count gave the Integrated seat to ABVP-SLVD’s Jiyasherin with 332 votes. Naphi of the AISA-ASA-DSU-SFI-TSF alliance won the PG seat with 1,510 votes, while Byagari Lavanya of the same alliance took the PhD seat with 594.
