At this point, Shiva accepts the nomination and decides to run. At his behest, Naresh is assaulted and rendered unable to run. Bhavani is mildly annoyed, but he studies Shiva as a potential replacement for JD. When Ganesh attempts to use force, Shiva beats him back too. He also rebuffs Ganesh's initial warning to stay out of politics. Shiva proposes the nerdy friend Naresh to stand for the president-ship. Emboldened by the incident, Shiva's friends plan to fight the students' union elections. An inevitable fight ensues, in which Shiva and friends beat up JD's gang, in broad daylight within the campus. Shiva's confident gait and tough attitude leads to JD locking horns with him. He joins a small group of friends, including Prakash and Asha. JD's connections, through Ganesh, reaches a gangster named Bhavani Chaudhury, whose criminal network lends muscle to a local politician Tilak Dhari. It turns out that JD is the (unopposed) president of the college students' union and the leader of a notorious campus gang, powerful enough to prevent the college Principal from taking disciplinary actions against their unsavory conduct, which includes eve-teasing and insulting professors. It's later made clear that JD was settling some campus scores and that the incident resulted in at least one student leaving the college, deepening the fear for JD in the campus. After the classes, upon the directions of a college student JD, a bunch of goons led by Ganesh savagely assaults a group of students right outside the college gate. The film opens to a classroom in a (fictional) VAS college of Arts & Sciences.