Faculty-specific points to nationwide political dynamics, particularly the “rising recognition” of Rahul Gandhi — for the Congress-backed Nationwide College students’ Union of India (NSUI), these are major elements behind its comeback to the highest publish within the Delhi College College students’ Union (DUSU).
Outcomes of the polls, introduced Monday night, noticed the NSUI bagging the publish of President after a niche of seven years. Its presidential candidate Ronak Khatri secured 20,207 votes — 39.86% of the 50,689 whole votes polled. That is barely greater than the votes secured by final yr’s presidential winner, Hitesh Gulia, who obtained 20,345 votes (37.61%) out of 54,092.
The NSUI additionally received the publish of joint secretary. The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) received two posts — Vice-President and Secretary.
The scholar outfit attributed its win to the sharp concentrate on college-specific issues like girls’s security, infrastructure, and scholar welfare, in addition to the broader impression of the Congress’s rising nationwide momentum below Lok Sabha Chief of Opposition Rahul Gandhi.
Ravi Pandey, NSUI’s Media Division chairman, credited the victory to the get together’s concentrate on native points. “We prioritised college-specific issues, significantly round girls’s security. The ABVP’s repetitive manifesto and unfulfilled guarantees eroded college students’ belief in them, which labored in our favour,” he mentioned.
Pandey additionally pointed to nationwide political dynamics, together with Rahul Gandhi’s rising affect, as elements of their success”. “Outcomes of the latest Lok Sabha polls and Rahul Gandhi’s rising recognition positively impacted scholar sentiment. Moreover, contributions of NSUI Nationwide President Varun Choudhary and the affect of Kanhaiya Kumar, the All India Congress Committee in-charge, propelled our efficiency this yr.”
The ABVP, in the meantime, attributed its losses to exterior elements. Harsh Attri, Delhi State Secretary and Nationwide Media Convener of the ABVP, accused the NSUI of leveraging “cash and muscle energy” within the elections. “I don’t imagine college students misplaced hope within the ABVP. The delayed outcomes, introduced after a Excessive Court docket directive lowered voter enthusiasm and turnout,” Attri claimed.
He added, “The ABVP received 148 posts in schools this yr, together with 41 by feminine candidates. This demonstrates that college students nonetheless belief us. Whereas we settle for the mandate, elections should not the only real measure of our dedication to scholar welfare.”
The NSUI final received the publish of DUSU president in 2017 and earlier than that in 2011 and 2012. It has been within the working for all 4 central posts yearly for over a decade. The ABVP bagged the president’s seat in 2016, 2018 and 2019. Within the earlier two elections (2023 and 2019), NSUI bagged one seat out of 4 within the central panel.
