PU polls 2023: CONGratulations pour in for NSUI as party makes comeback after 6 years
Hindustan TimesIn a major comeback after six years, Congress Party’s student wing, National Students Union of India won the president’s post at Panjab University Campus Student Council elections by defeating Chhatra Yuva Sangharsh Samiti’s, a student wing of Aam Aadmi Party. NSUI’s Jatinder Singh with his supporters at the Student Centre after winning the post of president in Panjab University Campus Student Council elections on Wednesday. Jatinder Singh of NSUI, who had quit Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad and joined the Congress’ student wing merely eight days before the polls, defeated CYSS candidate Divyansh Thakur by a margin of 603 votes. Deepak Goyat of Indian National Student Organization, a student wing of Haryana’s Jannayak Janta Party, was elected secretary with 4,431 votes and Gourav Chahal of Panjab University Helping Hands, a homegrown student group, which was in an alliance with ABVP was elected joint secretary.