Chandigarh, Sept. 4 -- In a historic win, the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) won the president's post in Panjab University Campus Students' Council (PUCSC) elections for the first time in the varsity's history. ABVP candidate Gaurav Veer Sohal, who comes from Punjab, won by a significant margin of 488 votes, securing 3,148 votes against Sumit Sharma of Student Front, a local outfit, who secured 2,660 votes. There were a total of eight candidates in the fray for the top post. This is the first time that ABVP, student wing of the RSS under the same umbrella as the BJP, has won the president's seat, effectively the council, since PU started holding direct elections for the student office-bearers in 1977. For long periods, student wings of national-level organisations were not active on the PU campus, or played a minor role, as home-grown outfits dominated. That has changed over the past decade or so. SEE HT Chandigarh...