ABVP wrests president, V-P from NSUI in DUSU

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ABVP wrests president, V-P from NSUI in DUSU

Friday, 14 September 2018 | Staff Reporter | NEW DELHI

ABVP wrests president,  V-P from NSUI in DUSU

Cong students’ wing wins secy post, ABVP retains jt-secy

The Delhi University Students’ Union (DUSU) elections witnessed a see-saw battle between the Congress party’s student wing NSUI and RSS-affiliated ABVP for the post of the president, with one leading the other at different stages of counting.

However, there was a big disappointment in store for the CYSS, the AAP’s student wing, and AISA who had joined hands to defeat the ABVP and the NSUI.

Ankiv Basoya of the ABVP bagged the post of DUSU president by defeating Sunny Chillar of the NSUI by margin of about 1,700 votes. Ankiv got 20,467 votes. The vice-president post too was won by the ABVP as Shakti Singh defeated NSUI rival Leena by more than 8,000 votes. Shakti secured 23,046 votes and Leena 15,000 votes.

The post of secretary was bagged by the NSUI as Akash Chaudhary defeated his ABVP counterpart Sudhir Dedha by a margin of about 6,000 votes. The joint secretary post went to ABVP’s Jyoti Chaudhary (19,353 votes). He defeated his rival Saurabh Yadav (14,381) from the NSUI by a margin of approximately 5,000 votes.

Last year, the NSUI had won DUSU’s president and vice-president posts, while the ABVP had won secretary and joint secretary posts.

The ABVP’s popular face Shakti proved too formidable for his opponents as he led by a whopping margin against NSUI’s Leena from the very beginning. Political pundits feel that Shakti — Kshatriya from the eastern Uttar Pradesh — was the ABVP’s game changer. 

High voltage drama went on throughout the counting when members of various student organisations in poll fray engaged in scuffle over the issue of “faulty” EVMs, which led to a halt in counting. But the counting resumed in the evening. In the initial trends, the NSUI gained an upper hand for the president post, but it lost in subsequent phases.

The NSUI claimed that they were leading on the post of president and the secretary after the six rounds of counting when about 6 EVMs broke down. The NSUI alleged election panel wanted to set the faulty EVMs aside and continue the counting to which the NSUI staunchly objected.

While the ABVP asserted there was a certain problem with only one EVM meant for the post of secretary.

“We demanded that counting should not be stopped just because of one EVM, whose vote can be counted later on after correction,” said Monica Chaudhary of the ABVP.

The NSUI insistence on resolving the issue of faulty EVM first and going ahead with the counting only after that, had delayed the process. Then the ABVP claimed that they were wining on all the four seats.

The counting was initially stopped for an hour when there were allegations of faulty EVMs, however, following objections by students the election officials decided to suspend the counting. Reports said six EVMs had stopped working after which the counting process was disrupted by candidates and their supporters.  Chief election officer suspended counting after DUSU president Rocky Tuseed entered the counting area.

However, the polling which was suspended in the day by the election commission was resumed in the evening after both ABVP and NSUI agreed on it. It was decided that for the secretary post, in case the margin is less than 426, the result will not be announced and DUSU election committee will decide on re-counting for the two EVMs. However, if the vote margin between top two candidates for secretary post is more than 426 votes, results will be declared. 

The outgoing DUSU had the president and vice-president from NSUI while secretary and joint secretary from the ABVP.

The elections went off peacefully on Wednesday with a turnout of around 44.46 percent which is slightly more than 43 percent recorded last year.

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