Caravan News
LUCKNOW: The ABVP, the student wing of RSS-BJP combine, has continued its southward journey in students’ union elections in recent months in Uttar Pradesh – the state where just nine months back BJP had swept the Assembly elections and Yogi Adityanath was installed as Chief Minister.
ABVP lost two top posts in the student elections at the K S Saket PG College in the temple town Ayodhya – the town has been at the heart of BJP’s all political strategies in the last three decades.
Bahujan Samaj Party’s Rajesh Verma won the post of President and Manoj Kumar from the same party won vice president post. Last year, ABVP had won the post of President after the gap of eight years. This year, however, the saffron group won the post of General Secretary. The results were announced on Saturday (December 30).
On the same day, ABVP lost two of three top posts in the students’ union election at the Sampoornananda Sanskrit University in Varanasi, where the National Students Union of India or NSUI of Congress won the post of Vice President and General Secretary with a margin of 245 and 264 votes respectively. ABVP managed to win the post of President with a margin of just 11 votes.
This year, ABVP has lost elections at various colleges and universities in the state like Kashi Vidyapith in Varanasi, Allahabad University and Meerut College. It lost all seats at Kashi Vidyapeeth in November and Allahabad University in October.
Outside Uttar Pradesh, ABVP has lost recent elections in Gujarat Central University, Delhi University and JNU.
