Shahjalal University of Science and Technology Central Students’ Union (Sucsu) and Hall Union Election Commission published the final list of candidates late last night (11 December), confirming that a total of 97 candidates will vie for the 23 central union posts.

This election, being held after nearly 28 years, has made great interest among students, with the final voting scheduled for 30 January next year.

The Chief Returning Officer, Professor Dr Abul Mukit Mohammad Moqaddes, released the complete list on the Sucsu website.

A total of 97 candidates are contesting various posts in the central union. The key contested executive positions are: vice president (VP), for which four candidates have been finalised; general secretary (GS), for which seven candidates have been finalised; and assistant general secretary (AGS), where four candidates are contesting this post.

Other executive and secretarial posts also feature strong competition: five candidates each for the education, research & career development secretary and information & technology secretary posts, and five candidates for the law & human rights secretary position.

Four candidates are vying for the female affairs secretary (reserved for female students), health & environment affairs secretary, international affairs secretary, transport secretary, and cafeteria & canteen secretary posts each.

The cultural secretary, religion & harmony secretary, and social welfare secretary posts each have three candidates. Two candidates are contesting for sports secretary, literature & annual secretary, and liberation & democratic movement secretary each.

A total of 28 candidates are finalised for the general member positions.

Hall Sangsad

Across the university’s six residential halls — three for male students and three for females — a significant number of candidates are contesting nine posts in each hall union.

The three male halls — Shah Paran Hall, Bijoy 24 Hall, and Syed Mujtaba Ali Hall — have a combined total of 53 candidates, with each hall having 17 or 18 candidates.

For the female halls, the contest is slightly varied: Begum Sirajunnesa Chowdhury Hall has the highest contest for VP, with three candidates. Fatimah Tuz Zahra Hall has three VP candidates and two GS candidates, while Ayesha Siddiqa Hall has two candidates for social welfare secretary, with the remaining posts largely uncontested.