India, Nov. 6 -- Nashra Naim was elected as the Aligarh Muslim University Students Union (AMUSU) vice-president, creating history by becoming the first-ever woman candidate to do so, and Mohammad Noman Ashraf was elected president.

Naim, a BA- LLB student, got 7,091 votes in the polling held on Thursday. Amina Irshad, a woman research scholar, unsuccessfully contested for the president's post. Two women candidates had filed nominations for the vice-president's post.

For the first time in its history, two women were elected as representatives from their faculties to AMU Court. Amina Faizan was elected from the faculty of unani medicine and Ilma Mashroof from the faculty of commerce.

Results were declared in the early hours of Friday. An...