New Delhi: In a first, the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) has fielded a Muslim woman candidate for the Hyderabad University (UoH) student union elections on November 9. Sheikh Ayesha will compete against Mohammad Atique Ahmed of the SFI-ASA-TSF alliance for the president’s post.
This is the first contest between two minority candidates for the top post in the central university. According to a report, Sheikh Ayesha from Visakhapatnam is doing her PhD in chemistry. Ahmed is also a PhD student and a resident of Hyderabad. The outgoing president, Prajwal Gaikwad, was from the alliance led by the Ambedkar Student Association (ASA), which included SFI and TSF as other partners.
