Patna: Yoshita Patwardhan, whose election as Patna University Students' Union (Pusu) vice-president was cancelled by the varsity on Saturday, has decided to knock the door of Raj Bhavan.

Patna University vice-chancellor Rash Bihari Prasad Singh cancelled Patwardhan's election as Pusu vice-president on June 30, based on recommendations of the varsity grievance cell. Patwardhan said: "The only hope for me now is left with Chancellor Satya Pal Malik. I will meet the Governor to explain him the entire process - right from my nomination as Pusu vice president candidate to winning the election as an ABVP nominee."

The girl claimed that she had filed the nomination for Pusu vice-president after the election returning officer and Magadh Mahila College administration had given no-objection certificate to her candidature after going through the documents. The girl claimed that the university and college administration knew the fact that she had been promoted in her second-year under-graduate examination.

Patwardhan claimed that after the Pusu results, the candidature of president, vice president and secretary were scanned for submitting false documents, but later due to the intervention of the high court and the university administration, the candidature of president and secretary was restored.

The grievance cell of Patna University probing Patwardhan's degree had issued a notice to her in June, seeking a reply why her candidature should not be cancelled. As per Pusu election guidelines, framed on Lyngdoh committee recommendations, a student who had failed in any year or semester is barred from contesting elections, but in case of Patwardhan, she had concealed the fact about her academic session (2016-17).

A senior officer of PU, requesting anonymity, said: "Based on grievance cell recommendations, the girl was asked to appear before the VC. The VC after going through recommendations and listening the student ordered for cancelling her candidature."