The state body of the National Students’ Union of India (NSUI), the students’ wing of the Congress, was dissolved on Sunday.

Breaking away from the talent-hunt mode devised by All-India Congress Committee general secretary Rahul Gandhi for choosing state heads, the NSUI will now go in for elections to appoint a fresh panel, comprising the president, vice-president and four general secretaries.

Elections will be held across 103 colleges in the state to first constitute college committees.

Later, a district committee will be elected by members of the college committees. This district committee will finally elect the state committee.

NSUI national president I B Eden has announced that the post of one general secretary would be reserved for SC/ST candidates and another two will be reserved for women.

The NSUI state committee will elect one male and a female candidate for the national committee, he added.

Eden said candidates below the age of 27 and who do not have any criminal record will be eligible to contest.

Vivek Sharma, the present president, has been holding the post for the last one-and-a-half years.

In this year’s students’ elections, the NSUI managed to get only 102 seats in colleges across the state against 195 by the ABVP and drew a complete blank at the Himachal Pradesh University campus.