Day 7
It was on this day morning we were called to the Ladies Hostel for a talk infront of it due to frequent harassing by the seniors. It was then that our whole ideas changed. The girls wanted us to continue work even after the election whether it is win or lose. We had a doubt of that in mind, and we conceded their demands. Then we got a new enlightenment and torched a new path before us. Then only we understood that we have to continue and we have to work for the college ever.
One of our candidates announced that a magazine would be issued even if we donot win. It struck as a lightning as we never expected this. How could we do that and about the funding. But now we realize that we can simply do that.
We had no time to rest and there was poster war all around and we had to counter the poster as immediately as possible. We had to start calling the student individually. The main point was that SFI supporters would surely come to cast the votes, but the neutral ones may not. And we started our community in orkut too. This was a sunday and is the day when everyone got a chance to have a nap. But we were having our exams the next day, but didnot mind that.
We had to issue the manifesto, but that only after they have issued as it may be changed. Moreover we had to have only those things which we could do. And we did something new, an analysis of previous union’s manifesto. Most of them were unfulfilled and that could surely create an anti-incumbancy state.
In Day 8 we had to implement all other actions and talk to all other college students. We implemented our novel idea of drawing the portrait of our candidates and issuing posters.
Day 9
The election day. My job was to run to the pg hostels and to other pgs to bring them to the polling booth. Though they have promised their support, their response was mininmal. Compared to the M.pharm, MSc Nursing students imported they were not much in number. And we had some setbacks in our numbers.
But the main thing noticed was that the SFI leaders who were worried till the previous day remained very cool. And that surely created doubts in our mind. And they had imported some gunda’s I think but they were standing away from the campus.
On the course we had the knowledge that we would be losing the election by about 100 votes or so. Even if the elections were against them, they would have crossed into the booths and disrupted the elections. Reelections was unthinkable for us anyway. We had no belief in the police too who were run by their government. Our only hope was the presiding officer who was impartial.
After casting our votes we immediately left to the hostel. There was police camping there too. And before the results were out we packed our bags and left. Otherwise I wouldnot have written this I think.
