Before the bigger electoral battles awaiting them in the coming months, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress are preparing in some earnest for a relatively minor but significant skirmish in Delhi.
The elections to the Delhi University Students’ Union are scheduled for mid-September. The Congress-affiliated National Students Union of India, or NSUI, believes it can make the students’ union polls a mini-referendum on the Narendra Modi government's "diminishing" influence on the country's youth.
In 2017, the NSUI had stunned Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)-affiliated and BJP-backed Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, or ABVP, by winning two of the top four

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