allahabad if sale of nomination papers is any indication of student leaders willingness to contest elections political ambition may be waning on au campus against last years sale of 181 nomination papers only 145 nomination papers for ausu polls were sold this year last year when au had resumed the student elections process after a gap of seven long years officials were surprised at the heavy turnout of aspirants however as the sale of nomination forms concluded at the election office set up at union hall this year 31 forms were sold for the post of ausu president 21 forms for the post of vicepresident 19 for the post of general secretary 13 for post of joint secretary 23 for cultural secretary and 38 forms for faculty representatives last year au had witnessed sale of 37 forms for the post of president 25 for the post of vicepresident 33 for the post of general secretary 21 for the post of joint secretary 24 for the post of cultural secretary and 40 forms for the post of faculty representatives a total of 47 students have filed their nomination for the students union polls of cmp degree college a constituent college of allahabad university this includes nine candidates for the post of president 12 for the post of vicepresident 11 for the post of general secretary seven for the post of joint secretary and eight for the post of cultural secretary the returning officer of the polls at cmp mohammad sirajul haq informed that for the post of faculty representatives a total of 17 nominations had been filed for the arts faculty representative a total of six candidates filed their nominations while two for the science faculty and three for commerce faculty for the post of law faculty representative six candidates filed their nominations he said as per the poll schedule withdrawal of nominations as well as acceptance of objections will take place between 10am and 1pm on wednesday followed by release of the final list of candidates at 3pm on november 21 the college administration will also hold a meeting with the candidates at 4pm on november 21 meanwhile at allahabad degree college adc another constituent college of au witnessed sale of a total of 25 nomination papers returning officer ds tiwari informed that four nomination forms each have been sold for the posts of president vicepresident and general secretary while three forms for the post of joint secretary and five for the post of cultural secretary have been sold for the post of law faculty representative two forms were sold while one form each was sold for the post of arts science and commerce faculty representatives as such representatives of arts science and commerce faculty are set to be elected unopposed similarly for the students union polls of iswar saran degree college isdc a constituent college of au a total of 31 nomination papers were filed during the past two days returning officer dhirendra dwivedi informed that nine forms were