It’s the victory of nationhood! ABVP once again hoists the Kesariya flag in DUSU elections

New Delhi, September 13: With a spectacular win on three seats out of four, the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) dominated the Delhi University Students' Union (DUSU) elections. It’s indeed a celebrating movement not only for the ABVP, but to every patriotic Indian!

 

The Congress-affiliated National Students' Union of India (NSUI) could bag only one seat. Last year as well, the ABVP had won three posts while the NSUI won one post. Akshit Dahiya of the ABVP defeated National Students Union of India (NSUI)'s Chetna Tyagi for the top post by a margin of over 19,000 votes. The posts of vice president and joint secretary were won by ABVP's Pradeep Tanwar and Shivangi Kharwal by a margin of 8,574 and 2,914 votes respectively. NSUI bagged the secretary's post with its candidate Ashish Lamba defeating ABVP's Yogi Rathee by a margin of 2,053 votes.

 

ABVP Karyakartas are making huge celebrations outside the counting centre in Kingsway Camp with playing 'dhol' and showering rose petals. Happiness is flooded across the campus!

 

Today, the counting began after a delay of almost two hours as opposed to the scheduled timing of 8.30 am as the candidates turned up late and the screens showing live counting faced technical issues. As soon as one screen started functioning, the counting began around 10.30 am. Initially, only one EVM's votes were being counted but later after all the screens started functioning, counting votes on four electronic voting machines began.

 

The voting turnout was recorded at 39.90 per cent this year, over four notches down from the last year. Last year, the election saw a 44.46 per cent voter turnout. In 2017, the overall voting percentage was 42.5 per cent while it was 36.9 per cent in 2016. The polling for four positions of (DUSU) ended amid allegations of EVM malfunctioning.

 

Sixteen candidates, including 4 women, were in the fray and 52 polling centres were set up. Over 1.3 lakh students were eligible to cast their vote. As many as 144 EVMs were used for students' union polls and 137 were used for college union polls. Polling began on Thursday morning colleges at 9.30 am and ended at 1 pm, while in evening colleges it commenced at 3 pm and ended at 7.30 pm.