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Ram Yatra, Google forms: How ABVP, NSUI candidates are preparing for DU Students’ Union polls
Congress’s NSUI is circulating Google forms among students, the RSS-backed ABVP is busy organising a Ram Yatra which will proceed on Sunday.
NSUI member Yash Nandal during his campaign at Campus Law Center , on Wednesday. (Express Photo by Vaishnavi Mishra)
Written by Vaishnavi Mishra
Flyers and pamphlets all around, candidates standing on ledges to address students, slogans and drums echoing from all directions, and a huge crowd of students carrying a copy of the Preamble in their hands: Different campuses of Delhi University seem gripped by election frenzy as the date for Students’ Union polls — scheduled for September 27 – draws closer.
While Congress’s NSUI is circulating Google forms among students, the RSS-backed ABVP is busy organising a Ram Yatra which will proceed on Sunday.
Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) member and DUSU joint secretary Sachin Baisla said he will lead the Yatra to Ayodhya. “The yatra will proceed from North Campus at 1.30pm. We will go to Ayodhya via Lucknow and come back on September 10,” he added.
Baisla insisted that the yatra was a devotional one and had nothing to do with politics.
NSUI candidate Yash Nandal said, “We are taking an initiative under which a Google form will be circulated across the university. We will include those issues in our manifesto.”
On this year’s campaign issues, NSUI member and current Vice President of Delhi University Students’ Union (DUSU) Abhi Dahiya said, “From menstrual leave to pink polling booths near women’s colleges to clean water supply across campus are some of the major issues this time.”
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The ABVP has not revealed the agendas that would find a place in the manifesto. According to ABVP member and DUSU secretary Aprajita, Metro concession cards for DU students and campus security vehicles across the university are some of the issues.
The nomination for candidates will take place on September 17 and poll results will be announced a day after voting, on September 28.
Last year, ABVP dominated the DUSU with Dedha elected as its president and Baisla along with Aparajita clinching two other key posts. NSUI managed to bag only the vice-president’s post to which Dahiya emerged as the winner.
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