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PIO woman elected president of Oxford student union
NAOMI CANTON | TNN | Updated: May 24, 2021, 14:08 IST
Avnee Bhutani, OUSU president.
LONDON: Anvee Bhutani, a Punjabi whose family is from Delhi, has been elected president of Oxford university student union (OUSU) in a by-election. The by-election took place after the previous winner, the first Indian female OUSU president-elect Rashmi Samant, from Karnataka, was forced to quit after a public apology she made for historic social media posts was not accepted by students.
Bhutani won by 655 votes after 11 stages of counting in a close contest with Yannis Baur, social secretary of the OU LGBTQ+ society, who got 649 votes. Bhutani is a second-year human sciences undergraduate student at Magdalen College. She is co-chair of the Campaign for Racial Awareness and Equality, president of the Oxford India Society and treasurer of the Oxford Hindu Society, all of which came out with public statements condemning Samant, causing her to st