Hazare campaign helps ABVP defeat NSUI in Delhi varsity polls
Saturday September 10, 2011 06:19:11 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The
National Students Union of India (NSUI) Saturday snatched the
president's post of Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) but the
Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) swept the other three
seats, crediting its victory to the Anna Hazare campaign.
For a second year in running, the ABVP won three of the four seats
in what is considered a prestigious annual political battle in the
capital.
Ajay Chhikara of NSUI, the student wing of the Congress, was
elected the president, defeating Neha Singh of ABVP by 2,357
votes. Elections took place Friday in the university, one of the
country's biggest.
Vikas Choudhary of ABVP, which is allied to the Rashtriya
Swayamsevak Sangh, was elected vice-president. He defeated NSUI's
Bhupendra Chaudhary by 3,780 votes.
Vikas Yadav and Deepak Bansal, both from ABVP, won the posts of
secretary and joint secretary respectively.
Yadav worsted NSUI's Parag Sharma by 2,291 votes. Bansal had a
2,105-vote margin victory over NSUI's Ashish Chaudhary.
The results sparked off celebrations in both the camps outside the
office of Dean of Student Welfare in the campus.
Last year, the ABVP had won the DUSU presidency and two other
posts -- vice-president and secretary. The NSUI could bag only the
post of joint secretary.
The ABVP credited the Anna Hazare campaign against corruption as
one of the reasons why it won three seats.
"It is one of the factors why we won," ABVP's Vikas Yadav told
IANS. Bhupendra Chaudhary of NSUI, who lost the vice-president's
post, admitted that the anti-corruption campaign did play a role.
Delhi University has 77 affiliated colleagues spread all over the
city, and a student population running into thousands.
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