DUSU polls: ABVP bags top 3 seats, NSUI makes comeback

TIL Desk/National/New Delhi-Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad has registered an emphatic victory in the Delhi University Student Union polls, though they won one position less than the last year. The student wing of the BJP bagged top three posts of DUSU while the Congress’s student wing, National Students’ Union of India had to content with a join secretary in the union.

ABVP’s Amit Tanwar was elected as the president, Priyanka Chabri as the vice president and Ankit Sangwan as secretary. NSUI’s Mohit Sangwan was elected as the joint secretary of DUSU. In 2015, the ABVP had won all the four positions in the DUSU polls.

This year’s DUSU polls witnessed the lowest voters’ turnout in six years. Only 36.2 per cent students cast their votes this year. In 2011 36.5 per cent students used ballot. The voters’ turnout has remained around 43 per cent in the past three years. In 2010, however, only 36 per cent students cast their ballot. Students blamed DU administration for poor voters’ turnout saying that the varsity failed to implement the code of conduct strictly.