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Varanasi: The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) which is the student wing of the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) faced defeat in the student union elections at Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapeeth in Varanasi. Varanasi is Prime Minister Narendra Modi's constituency.

TOI reports that the university president post went to Rahul Dubey, who contested as an independent candidate after the Samajwadi Chhatra Sabha (SCS) denied him a ticket.

He registered a win with 2,365 votes against ABVP candidate Valmiki Upadhyay who won 1,393 votes.

This means that Dubey won by a margin of around a 1000 votes over the ABVP candidate.

Police also lodged a complaint against Valmiki and his supporters after they allegedly attacked supporters of the newly elected Dubey.

Dubey's supporters and hostel mates of Narendra Dev hostel also staged a demonstration against the alleged attack on Saturday.

Dubey has alleged that after the declaration of results, Valmiki's supporters thrashed his supporters in the hostel.

The Indian Express reports that ABVP could not retain even the post of general secretary — the only seat it had won last year.

The Samajwadi Chhatra Sabha (SCS), the student wing of the Samajwadi party held on to their posts of vice-President and Library Secretary. The SCS and Congress’s student wing NSUI had supported the same candidates this year.