Chandigarh, Sept. 4 -- The Panjab University Campus Students Council (PUCSC) elections concluded on Wednesday with major student leaders winning key posts, but a striking feature of this year's polls was the sizeable number of votes cast under the "None of the Above" (NOTA) option across all four positions.

For the president's post, out of 9,613 valid votes, NOTA secured 188 votes. Interestingly, one of the candidates, Navneet Kaur, managed to secure only 136 votes, which was lower than NOTA.

In the contest for vice-president post, NOTA polled 335 votes, surpassing official candidate Esha Chander, who managed only 120 votes. The NOTA share here accounted for 3.4% of the total 9,593 votes cast.

The highest NOTA share emerged in the secr...