BJP Hails ABVP’s DUSU Victory as Rebuke to Rahul Gandhi

Students at Delhi University voted in their student-union election.

The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, or ABVP, won three of the four main positions.

It won president, secretary and joint secretary.

Independent candidate Deepanshu Shokeen won vice president.

He had been denied a ticket by the National Students’ Union of India, or NSUI.

BJP leaders celebrated the result and said it showed young people supported the ABVP’s “Nation First” ideas.

They also called it a rejection of Rahul Gandhi and Congress politics.

These statements describe the BJP’s interpretation of the result, not an independently established reason for how students voted.

Last year, ABVP also won three posts, while NSUI held the vice-president position.