ABVP wins 3 DUSU seats, NSUI bags 1

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)-backed Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) maintained its winning streak in the Delhi University Students' Union elections despite a three-year hiatus, as it retained the presidential post on the four-member central panel, along with two other posts of secretary and joint secretary

- Sadia Akhtar

The Congress's student wing National Students' Union of India managed to win the vice-president's post in the election, the results of which were announced on Saturday.

The new panel comprises ABVP's Tushar Dedha, Aprajita and Sachin Baisla, as president and secretary and joint secretary, respectively, and the NSUT's Abhi Dahiya as vice-president.

All the four elected candidates are students at the Delhi University's Department of Buddhist Studies.

The results were declared after 24 rounds of counting, according to officials. Dedha won by a margin of 3,115 votes, while NSUI's Dahiya was elected as the vice-president with 22,331 votes. ABVP's Aprajita and Baisla secured the posts of secretary and joint secretary with 24,534 and 24,955 votes, respectively.

At least 16,559 students voted for NOTA across all four posts. Voting was held on Friday, which recorded a turnout of 42%.