Date:07/09/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/09/07/stories/2008090760470300.htm

New Delhi

ABVP protests against results

NEW DELHI: Just hours after the results of the Delhi University Students’ Union elections were announced on Saturday, Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad activists protested against the verdict outside the office of the Dean of Students’ Welfare on the North Campus.

They demanded to know why despite early leads, the ABVP candidates for the post of vice-president and secretary, Vasu Rukhar and Anupriya Yadav, respectively, lost out to NSUI candidates.

Both these candidates lost to their nearest rivals by slender margins.

“It is difficult to believe that while for the post of president we won by about 1,800 votes, we could not wrest any other post despite early leads. We feel there was some conspiracy. We have demanded that the electronic voting machines be shown to us,” said ABVP media coordinator Atif Rasheed.

The students wanted to meet Chief Election Officer Gurmeet Singh, but were stopped by the police. Eight activists were detained and later let off.