The ABVP won the posts of president, vice-president, secretary and joint secretary by comfortable margins, bettering last year's performance when it had lost one of the posts to the NSUI.
Mohit Nagar was elected president of DUSU, Pravesh Malik the vice-president, Kanika Shekhawat the secretary and Ashutosh Mathur the joint secretary.
The Chief Election Officer for the DUSU polls, D.S. Rawat, said Nagar polled 20,718 votes defeating Gaurav Tushir of NSUI who polled 19,804 votes for the post of president.
DUSU is the representative body of the students from most colleges and faculties of the varsity. The polls have been keenly contested over decades and are seen as a stepping stone to party politics.
Last year, the ABVP had won the posts of president, vice-president and joint secretary while NSUI had managed to capture only the secretary's post.
Rohit Chahal, National Secretary of the ABVP, said expectations of people have gone up after Modi government came to power. “The ABVP fulfilled its promises of scrapping the four-year undergraduate (FYUP) programme. We won because of the Modi wave,” he said.
BJP national president Amit Shah took to twitter to congratulate ABVP on their victory.
”I congratulate ABVP for winning all 4 panels in DUSU elections. The students & karyakartas of DU deserve the credit,” he tweeted.
Parvesh Malik, who polled 21,935 votes, defeated the NSUI's candidate Mona Chodhary by a margin of 7,859 votes. Chodhary got 15,649 votes, Rawat said.
He said Shekhawat defeated NSUI's Amit Sidhu Teema by 3022 votes. Shekhawat polled 18,671 votes while Teema polled 15,649 votes.
ABVP joint secretary candidate Ashutosh Mathur polled 23,133 votes while NSUI's Abhishek Choudhary got only 12,065 votes. Mathur defeated Choudhary by 11,068 votes, which is the highest margin among all the winning candidates.
A total of seven candidates each were in the fray for the posts of president and joint secretary, while six candidates were in race for post of vice-president. Eight candidates were in contention for the secretary post.
The polling was held in two phases on Friday and it saw a turnout of over 43 per cent. Around one lakh students were eligible to cast their vote in the keenly contested polls.
Source: The Telegraph
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