Vaid group sweeps Syndicate polls

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First row (left to right): Deepak Manmohan, D.R. Gupta, S. Marriya, A.C. Vaid, Satpal Jain, R.P.S. Josh, Suresh Tandon, Ashok Goyal. 2nd row: Rajinder Bhandari, Kuldeep Kaur Pannu, Madanjit Sahota, R.K. Kohli, Radhey Shyam Sharma, Ravinder Sharma, S.S. Sangha. [Image Courtesy TribuneIndia.com]
Chandigarh, December 20
Principal AC Vaid's group swept the Panjab University Syndicate election barring one seat of the Medical faculty at the polls held here today. Contesting against all odds and despite a wave in favour of the Vaid group, Senator Ashok Goyal won one of the two Medical faculty seats with support from both groups.
While candidates of the Vaid group were elected unopposed in four of the six faculties, elections were held only in the Languages and Medical faculty to elect 15 members from the newly constituted Senate to the Syndicate which would come into effect from January 1. ...
... In the Combined faculty again, Dr S.S. Sangha, Dr Suresh Tandon and Mr Subhash Marriya of the Vaid group and the DAV group were chosen unopposed while Dr A.C. Vaid and Mr Satya Pal Jain were elected to the Syndicate from the Law faculty.
However, the most keenly contested and closely watched election of the Medical fraternity was last on the agenda. While Mr Ashok Goyal and Dr S.L. Mahajan were fielded by the Chatrath group, the names of Dr R.K. Kohli and Dr Sanjeev Handa were proposed by the Vaid group. The two winners, Mr Goyal and Dr Kohli, polled 18 votes each while Dr Handa and Dr Mahajan polled 15 votes each. ...