Congress wins Delhi University race all over again

NEW DELHI: The Congress-led National Students' Union of India (NSUI) won the Delhi University Students' Union elections once more on Saturday bagging three of the four seats at stake, including that of president. However, it lost the race for vice-president to the BJP-backed Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) by a wafer-thin margin of 35 votes, thus missing a clean sweep of the polls that it had accomplished last year. The NSUI retains the presidential post for the fourth year in a row with its candidate Amrita Dhawan cruising to victory by a comfortable margin of 4,722 votes. She secured 13,161 votes to beat her closest competitor, Gargi Lakhanpal of the ABVP, who polled only 8,439.