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In a late-night declaration of results by the Patna University Students Union (PUSU) connected Saturday (February 28, 2026), the National Students Union of India (NSUI), the pupil helping of the Congress party, held the fort aft a agelong time, winning the posts of president and wide secretary.
The BJP’s students helping Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) bagged the posts of associated caput and Treasurer.
The voting percentage, though, was abysmally debased this clip with 37.84% portion successful past (2025) it was 45.25%. There were immoderate stray incidents of unit and firing wrong the field connected the canvass day, though, determination was constabulary deployment successful the field to behaviour the canvass peacefully.
“It was owed to pursuing the strict guidelines for the canvass and students’ disinterest, dull and docile attack towards field election, the voting percent dipped by astir 7% this time”, the main predetermination serviceman and prof of Patna Science College, Shankar Kumar told The Hindu.
In 1980 the NSUI campaigner Anil Sharma and successful 1984 Shambhu Sharma had won the station of assemblage presidents respectively.
The NSUI campaigner Shantanu Shekhar and Khushi Kumari bagged the posts of president and wide caput connected Saturday (February 28, 2026) aft a agelong time. “Though the elections were not held connected the governmental party’s line, but it’s clip for the BJP to introspect arsenic the enactment is successful powerfulness successful the authorities successful conjugation with different parties and has each the MLAs of Patna municipality area”, said elder writer of Patna Manish Kumar.
In the ruling NDA, the BJP on with JD-U and different allies is successful powerfulness successful Bihar and earlier, its several-time young enactment MLA from Bankipore constituency of Patna Nitin Nabin has been taking keen involvement successful the PUSU election.
Mr. Nabin, 45, this twelvemonth successful January 2026 was elected arsenic party’s nationalist president.
Earlier, respective known governmental personalities of the State had bagged prestigious posts of Patna University Students’ Union. Former Chief Minister and president of Rashtriya Janata Dal Lalu Prasad Yadav, erstwhile Deputy Chief Minister and elder authorities BJP person precocious Sushil Kumar Modi and erstwhile Union Minister and BJP person Ravi Shankar Prasad were elected arsenic PUSU president, wide caput and adjunct wide caput respectively of PUSU successful 1973.
Former Union Minister and elder BJP person of the State, Ashwani Kumar Choubey, was besides elected arsenic president of the PUSU successful 1978.
The NSUI candidates for the station of PUSU president and wide caput Shantanu Shekhar this clip defeated nearest rival from JD-U Prince Kumar by 1496 votes while, Khushi Kumari defeated her rival from Opposition Rashtriya Janata Dal Pratyush Raj by 553 votes.
However, ABVP’s Abhishek Kumar and Harshvardhan won for the posts of Joint Secretary and Treasurer defeating NSUI and JD-U candidates respectively.
The voting percent has been highest successful Patna Law College (50.66%) and Patna Science College (45.7%) respectively while, the lowest percent were reported from B. N. College (21.2%) and Magadh Mahila College (21.72%) respectively.
For the archetypal time, the miss Independent campaigner Shifat Faiz won the station of vice-president of the Union defeating JD-U campaigner Ayush Harsh by 71 votes.
While congratulating the wining candidates, elder authorities Congress person and erstwhile enactment MLC Prem Chandra Mishra said, “the winning of NSUI candidates for the posts of President and General Secretary reflects Congress person Rahul Gandhi’s thoughts”. Party authorities spokesperson Asit Nath Tiwari excessively congratulated the winning candidates and said, “the effect shows the existent temper of the younker of the state”.
