New Delhi

Delhi BJP President Satish Upadhyay today said that the performance of the party’s student wing, ABVP, in the DUSU polls indicates “mood of the youth of the nation”.

Upadhyay said that the victory of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) in the Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) polls as well as its performance in the elections in Jawaharlal Nehru University, indicates that students who study here want composite development and are not moved by “promises of freebies like free wi-fi”.

“Youth have trusted the commitment towards skill development over the hollow promises of freebies like free wi-fi,” he said.

He made the remarks while addressing a press conference here today a day after ABVP’s clean sweep in the DUSU polls, statement issued by the party said.

BJP MP Ramesh Bidhuri, who was also present at the press conference said, “in a democracy decent decorum and abidance to guidelines play an important role. In these elections the way Delhi’s ruling Aam Aadmi Party directly interfered in DUSU elections causes pain and concern.

“The healthy change seen in students politics after the implementation of Lyngdoh Committee Reforms has suffered a set back in this election due to mainstream party’s interference.”

The Delhi BJP President also said that both the varsities “were well established centres for higher education where students from all over India especially from Purvanchal, Bihar, West Bengal and North East study in large numbers”.

“For long it was believed that students from these areas support communist or leftist thought process and keep distance from BJP or ABVP’s ideology based on nationalism.

“In these elections students from all over the country have shown faith in composite development and slogans of pseudo secularism and socialism do not attract them any more,” he has said as per the statement.

Upadhyay said that candidates of the ruling Aam Aadmi Party’s student wing, Chhatra Yuva Sangharsh Samiti (CYSS), were missing from DUSU poll posters the “focal point” of which appeared to be the Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.

He said that for last seven months the country was being told that Kejriwal’s government was based on youth support, but the DUSU election proves that the youth have gone back to the nationalist fold of BJP and ABVP.

He also termed as “strange” that CYSS contested DUSU elections but kept away from communist stronghold JNU.

Bidhuri also said that Kejriwal nor his colleagues have shown the basic courtesy to congratulate ABVP on its victory.

PTI