ABVP-SLVD wins full mandate in HCU Students' Union Election 2025; Siva Palepu elected president

The University of Hyderabad has declared the results of the UoH Students Union Election 2025 and this year, the ABVP-SLVD bagged all the central panel posts. Siva Palepu from ABVP-SLVD alliance party has been elected president in HCU Students Election 2025, while Debendra secured the vice-president’s post with 419 votes, highest votes in the race for the position.

Bahujan Students Front (BSF-HCU) presidential candidate Ananya Dash put up a close fight, securing 321 votes. With just a 9-vote margin, Siva Palepu won the president’s post in the HCU Students’ Union Election for the academic year 2025-26.

Shruti Priya of the ABVP-SLVD has been elected general secretary with 326 votes, while Saurabh Shukla bagged the joint secretary position. Venus and Jawala were elected cultural and sports secretary respectively. Notably, Venus recorded the highest overall of 440 votes among all central panel candidates.

A total of 169 candidates were in the race for key officer-bearer positions. Among them, eight contested for president post, five for vice-president, six for general secretary, five for joint secretary, and four each for cultural and sport secretary.

Polling took place on September 19 from 9 am at 29 polling booths, the Times of India reported. The campus recorded high voter turnout of over 81%. Students turned up in large numbers and patiently queued at 29 polling booths spread across various, the report added.

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UoH Students' Union selection result 2025-26. (Source: X/ ABVP-HCU)

Candidates were from various student organisations — Students’ Federation of India (SFI), Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), National Students’ Union of India (NSUI), Democratic Students’ Union (DSU), Ambedkar Students’ Association (ASA), SLVD, Muslim Students Federation (MSF), All India Students’ Association (AISA), Progressive Democratic Students Union (PDSU), BRSV, All India Other Backward Classes Students Association (AIOBCSA), BSF, TSF — as well as several independent groups took part in the student union election 2025.

NSUI's opposition

Earlier this month, the university had dissolved the student union and announced its decision to hold a fresh elections for the academic year 2025-26 in compliance with the Lyngdoh Committee guidelines, as mandated by the Supreme Court.

However, this move drew criticism from the National Students’ Union of India (NSUI), who called it an “arbitrary and undemocratic decision”.

The NSUI HCU claimed that the university had earlier convened an all-party meeting wherein it was unanimously agreed that elections would be conducted only after the ongoing Union activities were concluded. However, the administration “abruptly” dissolved the election students’ union and constituted the election commission, the students alleged.