DUSU Election Results 2024 Live Updates: NSUI's Rounak Khatri elected as new president, ABVP's Bhanu Pratap Singh to be vice president

For the Joint Secretary’s post, the battle was won by Lokesh of NSUI, defeating Aman Kapasiya of ABVP.

Around 1.40 lakh students were eligible to cast their votes and pick four out of the 21 candidates in the fray for the four top posts.

The National Students' Union of India's (NSUI) Rounak Khatri has been elected as president. NSUI, the students' wing of the Congress party, has also won the joint Secretary's post after seven years. ABVP's Bhanu Pratap Singh bags vice president post. ABVP retains the secretary's post.

The NSUI was leading in three posts of the Delhi University Students' Union elections, as the counting of votes is underway. NSUI's presidential candidate Rounak Khatri was leading after five rounds of counting with a total of 5,531 votes. Joint secretary candidate Lokesh Choudhary was leading by 6,065 votes and secretary candidate Namrata Jeph Meena by 4,425 votes. ABVP's Bhanu Pratap Singh was leading on the vice-president post by 6,101 votes.

The Delhi University Students’ Union (DUSU) elections for 2024 have been marked by intense competition between the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) and the National Students' Union of India (NSUI). With vote counting underway today, November 25, 2024, initial results indicate a neck-and-neck race, as both organisations vie for dominance in one of the nation’s most prestigious student union elections.

For the vice-president's position, the primary contenders include ABVP's Bhanu Pratap Singh, NSUI's Yash Nandal, and AISA's Ayush Mondal. The secretary's post has ABVP's Mitravinda Karanwal facing NSUI's Namrata Jeph Meena and SFI's Anamika K. Similarly, the joint secretary's race pits ABVP's Aman Kapasia against NSUI's Lokesh Choudhary and SFI's Sneha Aggarwal.

Delhi University has asked all candidates contesting the students' union elections to sign an affidavit pledging to refrain from using dhols, loudspeakers, firecrackers or pamphlets, both in open and closed premises, after the declaration of results, according to officials. DUSU poll results are likely to be announced on Monday. The affidavit also prohibits candidates from organising roadshows or rallies to celebrate their victory. According to the affidavit, failure to comply with these conditions can result in the cancellation of a candidate's victory or removal from their elected post.

The key players in the elections are the RSS-affiliated Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the Congress-backed National Students' Union of India (NSUI), and the Left-alliance of the All India Students' Association (AISA) and Students' Federation of India (SFI).

The Delhi High Court had instructed the university to ensure all defaced areas were restored and to submit a status report before proceeding with the vote count. The court had set a deadline of November 26 for the completion of counting. Delhi High Court had stalled the declaration of results until the defacement caused during the campaign was cleaned up. Although the university submitted a status report to the court, delays in the cleanup process forced further postponements, moving the results first to Nov 21 and now to Nov 25.

The delay is attributed to the ongoing efforts to address the widespread defacement caused during the election campaigns. Over 190 locations across the university were identified for clean-up. An inspection committee found that despite significant progress, several areas were still not fully cleaned, prompting the postponement.