Campaign ends, fingers crossed

A total of 38 candidates from different political affiliations will test electoral waters in the Delhi University student polls on September 14.

Election candidates of Congress and ABVP got support from their parent party bigwigs, with BJP state president Vijender Gupta and AICC General Secretary Oscar Fernandes exhorting students to vote for their representatives.

Campaigning was at its peak two days before the polls today, with candidates criss crossing the massive University campus to reach out to as many students as possible.

BJP's student wing ABVP has over the past two years made it a point to target the Congress-led state and central governments over corruption to mobilise support for its candidates, and the strategy has worked for them.

Raising the corrption slogan again this time, ABVP said today that 'NSUI's defeat will be corruption's defeat'.

Congress's student wing NSUI, on the other hand, has sought to raise topical issues like the recent court action against photocopied material, to strike a chord with the students.

"The 2G scam, coalgate scandal are symbols of corruption in which the Congress-led governments are mired," Gupta said attacking Congress at a press conference.

"The DUSU polls is an ideal chance for students to express their angst against the corrupt Congress regime and the anarchic situation they have created," he said. (MORE)