In February, when BJP’s Rekha Gupta was named the Delhi chief minister, Congress’s Alka Lamba reached across the aisle with a photograph from their student-politics days in Delhi University. In 1995, Lamba had been DUSU president as an NSUI leader, while Gupta was the general secretary, representing the ABVP. Thirty years later, in another state where women’s political participation has been limited at best, the Patna University Students’ Union (PUSU) election has thrown up a memorable result: Women have claimed three of the top five........

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