ABVP won President, Vice President and Joint Secretary posts out of the four key posts and the Congress' student wing National Students' Union of India bagged the Secretary post
The RSS-affiliated Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) dominated the keenly-contested Delhi University Students' Union (DUSU) election 2019 results of which were declared on Friday evening. While the ABVP managed to win three out of four crucial posts, the Congress-liked NSUI bagged just one seat.
ABVP won President, Vice President and Joint Secretary posts out of the four key posts and the Congress' student wing National Students' Union of India (NSUI) bagged the Secretary post.
ABVP candidates Akshit Dahiya, Pradeep Tanwar and Shivangi Kharwal got the maximum votes for the post of President, Vice-president and Joint-secretary, respectively. The lone winner from NSUI was Aakash Choudhary, who managed to trump his opponent for the post of DUSU secretary.
ABVP's presidential candidate Akshit Dhaiya received over 29,685 votes against 10,646 votes garnered by Chetna Tyagi of the NSUI. For the post of vice-president, Pradeep Tanwar of the ABVP defeated his closet rival Ankit Bharti by a margin of 8,574 votes. Tanwar received 19,858 votes.
For the DUSU secretary's post, NSUI's Ashish Lamba defeated ABVP's Yogit Rathee by a little over 2,000 votes. Lamba received 20,934 votes against Rathee's 18,881 votes.
Reacting to the results, NSUI state president Akshay Lakra said, the ABVP had fielded Rathee, Ramjas College president during the violence there in 2017. "The students have given a clear mandate against violence," Lakra said. For the joint secretary's post, the ABVP's Shivani Karwal defeated the NSUI's Abhishek Chaprana by 2,914 votes. Karwal won 17,234 votes against Chaprana's 14,320 votes. Union Home Minister Amit Shah congratulated ABVP for its sweeping victory in the DUSU polls.
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