Vadodara: MS University has never witnessed the kind of buildup that it is being seen ahead of the senate elections this year. The most crucial of the elections for the formation of the new senate body, that of the registered graduates’ category, is scheduled for Sunday.
Of the 14 seats of the registered graduates’ category, each representing individual faculties of the university, elections will be held for nine seats as five candidates have won the polls unopposed. For these nine seats, 27 candidates are in fray. The university campus has turned into a virtual political battleground ahead of Sunday’s elections.
Not just the university campus, battle lines have been drawn even outside the campus with the city unit of BJP jumping into an election which otherwise remains a university affair. The polls have turned into a tug of war BJP city unit president Vijay Shah, who has lined up candidates backed by the party, and Jigar Inamdar led “Team MSU”, referred to the saffron camp that currently enjoys majority in the senate and syndicate bodies of the university. Members of the ‘sankalan samiti’ — Inamdar’s rival saffron faction — have the backing of BJP. Also, Shah is taking personal interest in two candidates contesting from Faculty of Commerce and Faculty of Technology and Engineering, sources said.
Presence of Congress-backed candidates and independents has added colour to the political drama. Such keen is the poll battle that corporators and BJP workers have been entrusted the task of bringing in voters to the university campus. On Saturday, both the camps and the candidates, were busy reaching out to voters, arranging logistics for them, to ensure that each voter turns up for elections scheduled from 12 noon to 5 pm.
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