AAP’s student wing won’t contest polls for second year, cites Assembly elections

On wherefore CYSS has been opting retired of DUSU polls, Tiwari said, “Last year, we faced a setback successful the Panjab University pupil assembly elections, which wounded our image. To debar a akin situation, we decided not to contention the DUSU elections again this year.”

The CYSS past made a disposable people connected the DU field authorities successful April, during protests against the apprehension of erstwhile main curate Arvind Kejriwal successful the excise argumentation case. The apprehension connected March 8 had prompted CYSS to organise a “Mashal March” successful North Campus.

CYSS authorities wide caput Kuldeep said the outfit’s lack from elections post-pandemic was not a withdrawal from pupil activism but a effect of “internal decisions”. Despite sitting retired the past 2 DUSU elections, Tiwari noted that CYSS maintains power astatine colleges with respective elected candidates committed to addressing pupil concerns.

Since its enactment successful 2013, CYSS has seen fluctuating occurrence astatine DU. It archetypal contested DUSU elections successful 2015 but was soundly defeated by the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), which swept each 4 cardinal sheet positions. Despite AAP’s resounding triumph successful the erstwhile Delhi Assembly polls, CYSS failed to summation a foothold. The spread betwixt ABVP’s winning candidate, Sunny Dedha, and CYSS’s Garima Rana was a important 7,570 votes.

Blaming “money and musculus power” wielded by ABVP, the CYSS stayed retired of the 2016 and 2017 DUSU polls. It returned successful 2018 done an confederation with the All India Students Association (AISA). However, the conjugation failed to unafraid immoderate cardinal sheet positions, with combined votes trailing down ABVP’s full votes.

In contrast, the CYSS experienced occurrence successful Rajasthan’s 2017 pupil assemblage polls, winning respective assemblage presidency seats. It besides won the Panjab University Campus Student Council (PUCSC) presidency successful 2022. However, it mislaid this spot to the Congress-backed National Students’ Union of India (NSUI) the pursuing year, marking a downturn successful its fortunes.