Varanasi, Nov 6 (TOI): The student wing of the Bhartiya Janata Party, Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), lost the students' union elections at Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapeeth in Varanasi, which happens to be Prime Minister Narendra Modi's constituency . 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.

A day after the elections took place on Friday, police lodged a complaint against Valmiki and seven of his supporters, who allegedly attacked supporters of newly-elected president Rahul Dubey on the campus. On Saturday, Rahul's supporters and inmates of Narendra Dev Hostel staged demonstration by blocking it for more than an hour against the alleged at tack by ABVP me.

Sources said from the time of polling, it was clear that the candidates of SCS's panel were nowhere in the contest and the rebels, including Rahul and candidate for general secretary's post of his panel, had support of the students.

This led to clash between the supporters of Rahul and ABVP during polling and several vehicles, including Rahul's SUV , were da maged. Rahul alleged that after declara tion of results, ABVP supporters thrashed his supporters in hostel on Friday night.mbers.

Again on Saturday morning, Dubey's supporters were attacked by the supporters of Valmiki in which Abhimanyu Singh and Alok Upadhyaya, students of BCom and inmates of Narendra Dev hostel, suffered injuries.

SO Sigra Gopal Gupta reached the spot and assured the agitators that action would be initiated against the assailants, after which they dispersed.