ABVP wins 3 posts in DU Students Union polls, NSUI gets 1

The RSS-affiliated ABVP on Friday swept the Delhi University Students' Union (DUSU) polls, winning three of the four posts including that of the president, while the Congress' student wing NSUI bagged the secretary post.

The Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad's (ABVP) Akshit Dahiya, won the post of DUSU president, trouncing the National Students Union of India's (NSUI) Chetna Tyagi by a margin of 19,039 votes, the highest in the last two decades.

Celebrations broke out outside the counting centre in Kingsway Camp with supporters dancing to beats of drums and rose petals being showered on the winners.

The ABVP's Pradeep Tanwar bagged the vice-president's post by defeating Ankit Bharti of the NSUI by 8,574 votes.

The RSS-affiliated students' outfit lost the secretary post to NSUI by a margin of 2,053 votes. Ashish Lamba of the NSUI, who was celebrating his 24th birthday on Friday, defeated ABVP's Yogit Rathi to emerge as the lone winner from NSUI.

ABVP's Shivangi Kharwal was the only woman candidate to emerge victorious. She bagged the joint secretary's post by bagging 17,234 votes. Abhishek Chaprana of NSUI got 14,320 votes.

Even before the results were announced, ABVP members started gathering at the counting centre in Kingsway Camp with garlands for their winners. The NSUI, which was assured about Lamba's win, also started shouting his name and danced in glee.

The ABVP winners, wearing garlands, took out a victory procession to the university's Arts Faculty, where they climbed near the bust of Swami Vivekananda and shouted the names of their winning candidates amid 'Bharat Mata ki Jai' and 'Vande Mataram' slogans.

The 20-year-old Dahiya, who the ABVP claimed that he might be the youngest candidate to win the president's post, said, "This is not a win of any particular region but of ABVP workers who worked tirelessly through the year. We should raise slogans for ABVP."