Chandigarh, Sept. 5 -- Gauravveer Sohal of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) secured 3,138 votes to win the post of president for Panjab University Campus Students Council (PUCSC). Sohal scored big in five departments who hold the vast majority of the students at Panjab University (PU). And in departments with less number of students, Sohal lost to other candidates.

Both the University Institute of Legal Studies (UILS) and the Department of Laws were most important for choosing the council as three of the four candidates contesting for the top post -- including Sohal -- are from these departments. Sohal is currently enrolled as a research scholar in the Department of Laws even as his guide is from UILS.

The Department of Law...