The recent victory of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) in Delhi University Student Union elections is seen as the befitting reply of the Gen Z to Opposition’s call for them to come on streets to oppose the Modi government at the Centre.

ABVP trounced the Congress backed National Students Union of India (NSUI) in these elections and the Left-backed student organisations were not even in the fray. While the focus in media and social media has largely been on the outcome of the DUSU elections, the fact of the matter is that there is a nationwide surge on campuses in favour of ABVP.

In the last one year, ABVP has registered significant victories in student union polls in Patna University, Guwahati University, and many universities in Uttarakhand. It has won polls now even in university campuses such as Hyderabad Central University, Punjab University and Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in Delhi which were considered to be the bastions of its arch-rivals.

The NSUI claims on its official website to have 4 million members and presence in 15,000 colleges across the country, while the ABVP had announced in November 2024 that it has........

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