Polls leave MSU students cold

VADODARA, Dec 15: The slogans are there, as are the speeches and the distribution of cards bearing the names of the candidates. But the e...

VADODARA, Dec 15: The slogans are there, as are the speeches and the distribution of cards bearing the names of the candidates. But the electorate the students are curiously uniterested in the voting process, believing that the M S University students’ union elections will not take care of any of their problems.

On the other hand, the usual paraphernalia of the election seems to be a mere guise for the shortage of issues and catchy phrases that the prospective student leaders seem to be facing. All of a sudden, the issues that were setting the campus afire have been relegated to the sidelines.

Perfect instance of the student apathy over the elections is Ananya Ghosh, a student of the Faculty of Arts, who said, “I have been in the university from the past three years and I have never voted for a single student leader. All these leaders end up contributing to the violence on campus.”

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“We see these so-called leaders only during the elections. Once the votes are won, they are nowhere to be seen”, Arts faculty student Tanya Singh said, adding that there was no reason for any student to vote for leaders who did not think of students.

Janak Makwana, one of the prospective candidates for the post of the university general secretary, however is trying to dispell that notion by asserting he would ensure the administrative authorities did away with vandalism as well as the police presence on campus.

He has also assured his voters that the needful would be done for departments where infrastructure needed to be upgraded by asking the authorities to divert the development fee corpus to this end.

Dhanraj, who is trying to contest for the post of the Science faculty general secretary, is trying to win votes by promising to pressure the authorities into introducing a semester examination system for this faculty.

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Dhanraj, an associate of the Univerity general secretary Prakash Verma, has kept all other issues aside for the time. He told Express Newsline, “This issue is very topical and with the examinations coming up, the plank of semesters will definitely be popular.”