Congratulations to ABVP & Students of Delhi University on winning the DUSU elections & making a clean sweep by winning all the four seats. — Arun Jaitley (@arunjaitley) September 12,

Heartiest Congratulations to all Parishad karyakartas on clean sweep in

DUSU Polls

. A victory of ideology

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NEW DELHI: Just seven months after Aam Aadmi Party swept the Delhi assembly elections, its student wing, Chhatra Yuva Sangharsh Samiti, drew a blank in the Delhi University Students’ Union (DUSU) elections whose results were declared on Saturday. CYSS ’ high-voltage debut campaign could not stop right-wing Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad from winning all four central panel posts for the second straight year.While CYSS put on a brave face and said it had done well, it got only 14.7% of the votes for DUSU president as against ABVP’s 35.9% and 24.8% for National Students’ Union of India (NSUI).Satender Awana, a student of the department of Buddhist Studies, won the president’s post defeating NSUI’s Pradeep Vijayran by a margin of 6,327 votes. ABVP’s vote share did not increase significantly yet it won three of the four posts by margins of more than 6,000 votes. ABVP’s Sunny Dedha won the post of vice president defeating CYSS’ Garima Rana by 7,570 votes, the biggest victory margin this year.With 21.3% of the votes, Rana performed the best among CYSS candidates. The party’s contenders for secretary and joint secretary finished fourth while the one for president came third.CYSS’ aggressive campaign had kicked up a lot of dust with rivals accusing it of openly violating the model code of conduct. The AAP government had announced several youth-oriented schemes just before the polls and police had to intervene when AAP MLAs tried to campaign in the classrooms.“This is a mandate for ABVP’s grassroots-level work and against AAP. They tried all tricks to vitiate the atmosphere and this is the maximum they could achieve. There is no need for ABVP to defeat them, AISA alone will wipe out CYSS next year,” said Rohit Chahal, ABVP’s national secretary, adding, “They fought an issueless election like the NSUI and are working like the political agents of AAP.”“CYSS was involved in all sorts of violations of the election code, from violence to use of money and misuse of the state machinery,” said Saket Bahuguna, ABVP’s state secretary. “When before have we heard of MLAs being picked up by police for campaigning for a student union election in classrooms, or of MLAs posing as journalists to get access to the polling areas?”— Amit Shah (@AmitShahOffice) September 12, 2015NSUI played second fiddle for the third consecutive year after 2012. Its fortunes declined marginally as, unlike last year when it finished second on all posts, this year it lost the second place to CYSS on the vice president’s post. It finished with less than 20% of the votes on three posts.“We started from zero and everyone was predicting the third position for us. But we have done better than that. Still, we need to work and we will carry on working for students irrespective of electoral results,” said Roji John, national president of NSUI.