JUCSU: Counting complete in 15 halls, results expected by afternoon

Forty-two hours have passed since voting in the Jahangirnagar University Central Students’ Union (JUCSU) election ended, but the wait for results looks set to continue for a few more hours yet. Shortly before 11am on Saturday, Election Commissioner Prof Lutful Elahi said that counting had been completed in 15 of the 21 halls. He added that three more would be finished within half an hour, and they hoped to announce the results by 1:30pm or 2pm. On Friday evening, Chief Election Commissioner Prof Md Moniruzzaman had told reporters at the university’s Senate building that results would be declared by the end of the night. But a visit to the Senate building on Saturday morning showed that even after a night...