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"Vote for ABVP in DUSU elections"

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Bharatiya Janata Party's clarion call to Delhi University students

NEW DELHI: Two days after the Delhi unit of the Congress declared its open support to the National Students' Union of India in the Delhi University Students' Union elections, the Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party has called upon the university students to vote for the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad candidates.

Describing the Congress as anti-student and anti-youth, Delhi BJP president Harsh Vardhan said at a meeting of party workers at the BJP Delhi Pradesh headquarters here on Wednesday that if the academic atmosphere in Delhi University was to be improved then the ABVP candidates should be made victorious.

The speakers at the meeting openly supported ABVP. They charged that the Congress had made the prestigious Delhi University a political arena and had by installing the bust of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on the campus vitiated the atmosphere there.

Dr. Vardhan said while the Congress had been ruling Delhi for the past eight years and the Centre for over two years, despite the phenomenal growth in the number of students in Delhi, no new university had been opened in Delhi. Because of this, he said, most of the students were unable to get the course or college of their choice this year.

On the other hand, the BJP leader said, over 10,000 posts of teachers had also been lying vacant but efforts have not been made to fill them up.

Then, he added, there was a great scarcity of hostel rooms because of which students coming in from outside Delhi were facing a huge problem of accommodation. He also decried the absence of any steps to make the campuses in the Capital safer.

The need of the hour, the BJP leader said, was to set up more universities, make more hostels.

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