Results of elections to the senate of Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences from the constituency of professors have been announced. The elected: Dr Nidarsha Hegde; Dr G C Basavaraja; Dr S N Suresh; Dr R Nisarga and Dr V M Puttaraju.
The elections were held in July 2006. Then, the above mentioned candidates were declared elected. But, one of the defeated candidates had moved the Karnataka High Court stating that some invalid votes were also counted. Following interim order of the court recounting was held. However, results did not change, even after the recounting. The University issued a notification on June 6 declaring the above mentioned candidates as elected.