New Delhi: The ABVP, the student wing of the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh, Thursday bagged three posts, including that of the president, in the Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) elections.
The NSUI, the student wing of the Congress, won only one seat.
ABVP's Ankiv Basoya won the presidential post with a margin of 1744 votes while party's candidate Shakti Singh was declared as the vice president after he won with a margin of 7673 votes. NSUI's Akash Choudhary won the secretary's post while ABVP's Jyoti emerged victorious on the joint secretary post.
Basoya got 20467 votes while his rival NSUI's Sunny Chhillar got 18723 votes. Singh received 23046 votes against NSUI rival Leena's 15373 votes.
Choudhary, the lone winning candidate of the NSUI, alleged that fair elections were not conducted and data of seven EVMs were missing. The Chief Electoral Officer in Delhi Thursday clarified that the Election Commission had not issued the EVMs used in DUSU elections and it seems to have been procured privately. The counting had to be suspended for a few hours following a glitch in the EVMs but was resumed in the evening amid considerable police deployment.
The NSUI demanded fresh polling, while the ABVP demanded resumption of counting.
"There are only eight candidates so how is it possible that votes were cast to a 10th candidate? All machines were fine on Wednesday. Police and administration are involved in this," Fairoz Khan, NSUI president, alleged.
Later, all candidates agreed on the resumption of counting.
Celebrations broke out with the bursting of crackers and loud cheering at the Kingsway camp counting venue as the results were announced.
While the battle for DUSU has traditionally been the contest between the NSUI and the ABVP for years, the Left-affiliated AISA and Aam Aadmi Party's CYSS allied and also vied for the central panel posts this time.
Amid heavy police presence and some last-minute wooing of voters, DUSU polls were held on Wednesday with a voter turnout of 44.46 per cent. See P4