DUSU Elections : Independent candidate elected DUSU president
Manoj Chaudhury of Department of Buddhist Studies won the president’s post while ABVP’s Kirti Vadhera (Miranda House) bagged the Vice President’s post.
Manoj Choudhary, in the end, had only an 11-vote advantage over his classmate from the Department of Buddhist Studies Bajinder Singh. The second-placed All India Students’ Federation (AISF) candidate got 5,380 votes.
Kirti Wadhera,polled 2,546 votes more than her nearest candidate — Anurag Sharma, a Department of Buddhist Studies student contesting as an Independent.
NSUI’s Ashradeep Kaur (Campus Law Centre) won the post of Secretary while Samajwadi Chatra Sabha’s Anupriya Tyagi (Hansraj College) bagged the post of Joint Secretary.
Ashradeep Kaur won by the largest margin: 4,181 votes.
Manoj Choudhary, incidentally, is the first Independent DUSU president since Rajiv Goswami of the Mandal agitation fame won with NSUI support in 1991.
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