New Delhi: The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) swept the Delhi University Students' Union (DUSU) polls that were held on Friday. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-backed outfit won all four seats and bagged president, vice-president, secretary and joint secretary posts.
Mohit Nagar was elected president of DUSU while Pravesh Malik won the elections for vice president's post. Kanika Shekhawat and Ashutosh Mathur have been elected as secretary and joint secretary respectively.
Chief Election Officer for the DUSU polls DS Rawat said Nagar polled 20,718 votes defeating Gaurav Tushir of NSUI who polled 19,804 votes for the post of president. The margin of defeat was 914.
Parvesh Malik, who polled 21,935 votes, defeated NSUI's candidate Mona Chodhary with the margin of 7,859 votes. Chodhary got 15,649 votes, Rawat said.
He said Shekhawat defeated National Students' Union of India (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.
Speaking to media soon after the announcement of the results, Mohit said, “This is the victory of Delhi University students. We will highlight the problems of hostels and colleges. We will also raise the issues of female students' on priority basis.”
Kanika said, “We will open women development cell in each college. Women security will be the priority. A separate counter will be available for reservations in buses. Girls will be given opportunities to come ahead.”
Thousands of students on Friday voted to elect new student unions in Delhi University.
Last year ABVP had won the posts of president, vice-president and joint secretary while NSUI had managed to capture only secretary's post.
"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," said Rohit Chahal, National Secretary, ABVP.
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.
For DUSU, seven candidates were in the fray for the post of president, 32 for vice-president, 41 for secretary and 34 for joint secretary.
