Students delight in casting ‘first vote’ at CUCSU

Students are overjoyed after casting their “first-ever votes” in the Chittagong University Central Students’ Union (CUCSU) elections. Students from various departments started to gather on campus from early on Wednesday morning for the polls. Students from the residential halls also gathered in groups outside their polling station. However, the polling centres opened 30 minutes behind schedule at 9:30am. Two students of the university's Department of Marine Science -- Sajjad Hossain Bhuiyan and Rubel Gazi -- are residents at Shah Amanat Hall. After voting in the Faculty of Science building, they told bdnews24.com that although they were eligible to vote in the January general election, they did not vote. But now they are delighted to cast their ballots for the first...