Delhi University Students Union
Student organisation
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The Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) is the world’s largest student body, with over 700,000 students spread over 91 affiliated colleges and 16 faculties.[2] It was established in 1949,[1] and in 1954 the first DUSU elections were held.[3] It is the representative body of the students from member colleges and university faculties and teaching departments. The students of member colleges and university faculties & teaching departments are the members of the union.[4] The Vice–Chancellor of the University of Delhi is the patron of the union. The official year and term of the union is from 16th of August of every year to the 15th of August of the following year.[5]
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| Abbreviation | DUSU |
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| Formation | April 9, 1949 [1] |
| Type | Student Organization |
| Legal status | Non-profit organizations |
| Headquarters | Chhatra Marg, Delhi University North Campus, Delhi-110007, India |
| Coordinates | 28.6878340°N 77.2088325°E |
President | Yash Dabas (ABVP) |
Vice President | Deepanshu Shokeen (Independent) |
Secretary | Riya Chhawadi (ABVP) |
Joint Secretary | Lakshay Raj Singh (ABVP) |
| Website | www |
History
Ever since its establishment in 1922, students of Delhi University were deeply involved in the Independence Movement against British Colonial rule.[1] There had been a long–standing demand for establishing a student body in the university, finally, in 1947 under the chairmanship of V. K. R. V. Rao, then head of the DU economics department, a provisional committee that included presidents of all constituent college unions was authorised to draft the constitution of the Delhi University Students’ Union. Finally, DUSU was inaugurated by then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru on April 9, 1949.[1]
Over the years, several DUSU members have gone on to have notable careers in Indian politics, including several Ministers: Arun Jaitley, Vijay Goel, Vijay Jolly, Ajay Maken, Rekha Gupta and Alka Lamba.[6][7][8] DUSU has a budget of approximately Twenty–Four lakhs INR.[9] Every member of union pay Twenty INR as an annual subscription to union funds which is collected along with the fees collected at the time of admission by the respective college or institutions.
Elections
Elections to the union are held by direct voting by the students of the university faculties & teaching departments and member colleges. Member colleges and university faculties have their own college or faculty students' union. The DUSU is a university–level umbrella organisation for university faculties and member colleges' student unions. The DUSU has four office bearers: President, Vice President, Secretary and Joint–Secretary. DUSU also includes one or two Central Councillor(s) from each college affiliated with DUSU, who are directly elected by the college. The President of each college affiliated with DUSU is also a member of the central council of DUSU.[10]
The elections are usually held in July–August of each year. As of 2019 there are total of 52 Delhi University colleges & faculties affiliated to DUSU.[11][6]
Delhi University politics is called the “mini theatre of national politics”, and thus all major national parties invest heavily in the elections.[8] Amongst all the Student elections in India, DUSU elections "gain most nationwide attention" besides Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union. With 1.45 lakhs+ students voting, DUSU elections are the biggest democratic election at an academic campus every year.[12]
List of DUSU officeholders
| Term | President | Vice President | Secretary | Joint Secretary | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954–55 | Gajraj Bahadur Nagar | [13] | |||
| 1955–56 | Pran Sabharwal | Yadukul Bhushan | HD Tulisdas | [14] | |
| 1956–57 | Yadukul Bhushan | Ranjendaran Giri | Ashok Kumar Tanwar | ||
| 1957–58 | Krishnanand Sharma | Shri Ram Sethi | Adish Jain | ||
| 1958–59 | Narinder Kumar Mehta (Independent) | Surender Chawla | Kamal Kapoor | ||
| 1959–60 | Ram Labhaya Lakhina | Sudershan Chawla | Ashwani Seth | [15] | |
| 1960–61 | Viresh Pratap Chaudhury (NSUI) | Swami Poornanand | Madan Saluja | [16] | |
| 1961–62 | Madan Saluja | Som Nath Dhawan | Shyam Sunder Bhatia | Ved Sharma | |
| 1962–63 | Joginder Singh Sethi (NSUI) | KB Thukral | Yashpal Sharma | ||
| 1963–64 | Narendra Nath Kalia (NSUI) | SP Oberai | Surender Sethi | Bahadur Singh | |
| 1964–65 | Surinder Seth | Bahadur Singh | Rajvanshal Jain | Ved Prakash | [16] |
| 1965–66 | Ashok Marwah | Rajkumar Jain | MM Singh Juneja | Ved Kharbanda | |
| 1966–67 | Subhash Goel | Subhash Chugh | Pradeep Seth | [16][17] | |
| 1967–68 | Harcharan Singh Josh (NSUI) | Shanti Diwan | Vijay Seth | [16][18] | |
| 1968–69 | Ajit Singh Chadha | Attar Singh | Ramesh Verma | Vishnu Kumar | [16][19] |
| 1969–70 | Subhash Sahni | Ashok Gandhi | AK Dhawan | [16] | |
| 1970–71 | Subhash Chopra (NSUI) | Omprakash Suman | Hansraj | [16][20] | |
| 1971–72 | Bhagwan Singh (ABVP) | Kamal Kumar Kakkar | Sher Singh Dagar (ABVP) | Rakesh Bhushan | [16] |
| 1972–73 | Sri Ram Khanna (ABVP) | Arun Jaitley (ABVP) | [16][21] | ||
| 1973–74 | Alok Kumar (ABVP) | ||||
| 1974–75 | Arun Jaitley (ABVP) | Vijay Bindal | Purnima Sethi (ABVP) | [22][23] | |
| 1975–76 | Elections not held due to the emergency[24] | ||||
| 1976–77 | |||||
| 1977–78 | Vijay Goel (ABVP) | Sunil Mittal (ABVP) | Rajat Sharma (ABVP) | T Joggulamba (ABVP) | [25][21] |
| 1978–79 | Hari Shankar Gupta (NSUI rebel) | Rajesh Oberoi (JVM) | Vijay Jolly (ABVP) | Pinky Anand | [16][26] |
| 1979–80 | Rajesh Oberoi | Bharti Kumari | Pinky Anand | Amit Sinha | [16] |
| 1980–81 | Vijay Jolly (ABVP) | Sonia Sobti | Sushil Kumar | Sanjay Khanna | [27][6] |
| 1981–82 | Sudhanshu Mittal (ABVP) | Arti Mehra | Ajit Pandey | Yogesh Sharma | [8][28] |
| 1982–83 | Yogesh Sharma (ABVP) | Satish Upadhyay (ABVP) | RP Singh | Meera Aggarwal | [28] |
| 1983–84 | Anil Soni | Balram Yadav | Naresh Sharma | Anju Malhotra | |
| 1984–85 | Balram Yadav (ABVP) | Vijender Gupta (ABVP) | Satpal Dhunna | Meera Aggarwal | [28] |
| 1985–86 | Ajay Maken (NSUI) | Madan Singh Bisht | Rajesh Garg | Neeraj Bala | [29] |
| 1986–87 | Madan Singh Bisht (DCM) | Anju Malhotra | Narender Tandon | Neena Sachdeva | [30][31][32] |
| 1987–88 | Narender Tondon (ABVP) | Avdesh Mishra | Anju Sachdeva | Ashish Sood (ABVP) | |
| 1988–89 | Ashish Sood (ABVP) | Anju Sachdeva | Hari Om | Kamal Kant Sharma | |
| 1989–90[a] | Anju Sachdeva | Avdesh Sharma | Kamal Kant Sharma | Sunita Wadhera | |
| 1990–91 | Elections cancelled due to Mandal Commission protests[33] | ||||
| 1991–92 | Rajiv Goswami (Independent) | Rama Kant | Sonia Seth | Ajay Chauhan | |
| 1992–93 | Avdesh Sharma (ABVP) | Archana Sharma | Monica Kakkar (ABVP) | ||
| 1993–94 | Monica Kakkar (ABVP) | Ajay Chauhan | Shalu Malik (NSUI) | [34] | |
| 1994–95 | Shalu Malik (NSUI) | Deepak Kumar Tyagi | Vandana Mishra | Tarun Tyagi | [34][26] |
| 1995–96 | Alka Lamba (NSUI) | Narendra Kumar Yadav | Rekha Jindal (ABVP) | Rajneesh Jindal | [35][36] |
| 1996–97 | Rekha Jindal (ABVP) | Anil Jha Vats (ABVP) | Surender Goel | [8] | |
| 1997–98 | Anil Jha Vats (ABVP) | Jaivir Rana (ABVP) | Jitender Choudhary | [6] | |
| 1998–99 | Jaivir Rana (ABVP) | Anil Solanki (ABVP) | Sanjay Choudhary | ||
| 1999–2000 | Ritu Verma (ABVP) | Amit Malik (NSUI) | Neetu Verma (NSUI) | Arun Khatana | |
| 2000–01 | Amit Malik (NSUI) | Neetu Verma (NSUI) | Harsh Chaudhary | ||
| 2001–02 | Neetu Verma (NSUI) | Nakul Bhardwaj (ABVP) | Vikas Shokeen | Rohit Choudhary | [26] |
| 2002–03 | Nakul Bhardwaj (ABVP) | Sunder Daagar | Ashok Basoya | ||
| 2003–04 | Rohit Chaudhary (NSUI) | Narinder Tokas (NSUI) | Ragini Nayak (NSUI) | Pankaj Kochar | [26] |
| 2004–05 | Narinder Tokas (NSUI) | Ashok Basoya | Amrita Dhawan (NSUI) | Gaurav Khari (ABVP) | |
| 2005–06 | Ragini Nayak (NSUI) | Amrita Dhawan (NSUI) | Ramit Sherawat (NSUI) | Deepak Choudhary (NSUI) | [8][37] |
| 2006–07 | Amrita Dhawan (NSUI) | Vikas Dahiya (ABVP) | Shashikant (NSUI) | Tarun Tanwar (NSUI) | [8] |
| 2007–08 | Amrita Bahari (NSUI) | Devraj Tehlan (NSUI) | Manish Choudhary (NSUI) | Khusboo Sharma (NSUI) | [38] |
| 2008–09 | Nupur Sharma (ABVP) | Manohar Nagar (NSUI) | Amit Choudhary (NSUI) | Ashish Gahlot (NSUI) | [6] |
| 2009–10 | Manoj Choudhary (Independent;
ABVP backed) |
Kirti Wadhera (ABVP) | Ashradeep Kaur (NSUI) | Anupriya Tyagi (SCS)
(ABVP backed) |
[39] |
| 2010–11 | Jitender Choudhary (ABVP) | Priya Dabas (ABVP) | Neetu Dabas (ABVP) | Akshay Kumar (NSUI) | [40] |
| 2011–12 | Ajay Chhikara (NSUI) | Vikas Choudhary (ABVP) | Vikas Yadav (ABVP) | Deepak Bansal (ABVP) | [41] |
| 2012–13 | Arun Hooda (NSUI) | Varun Khari (NSUI) | Varun Choudhry (NSUI) | Vishnu Basoya[b] (ABVP) | [42] |
| Raveena Choudhary[b] (NSUI) | |||||
| 2013–14 | Aman Awana (ABVP) | Utkarsh Chaudhary (ABVP) | Karishma Thakur (NSUI) | Raju Rawat (ABVP) | [43] |
| 2014–15 | Mohit Nagar (ABVP) | Parvesh Malik (ABVP) | Kanika Shekhawat (ABVP) | Ashutosh Mathur (ABVP) | [44] |
| 2015–16 | Satender Awana (ABVP) | Sunny Dedha (ABVP) | Anjali Rana (ABVP) | Chhatarpal Yadav (ABVP) | [45] |
| 2016–17 | Amit Tanwar (ABVP) | Priyanka Chhawri (ABVP) | Ankit Sangwan (ABVP) | Mohit Garid (NSUI) | [46] |
| 2017–18 | Rocky Tusheed (NSUI) | Kunal Sehrawat (NSUI) | Mahamedhaa Nagar (ABVP) | Uma Shankar (ABVP) | [47] |
| 2018–19 | Ankiv Baisoya[c] (ABVP) | Shakti Singh (ABVP) | Akash Choudhary (NSUI) | Jyoti Chaudhary (ABVP) | [49] |
| Shakti Singh (ABVP) | vacant | ||||
| 2019–20 | Akshit Dahiya (ABVP) | Pradeep Tanwar (ABVP) | Ashish Lamba (NSUI) | Shivangi Kharwal (ABVP) | [50] |
| 2020–21 | Elections cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic in India[33] | ||||
| 2021–22 | |||||
| 2022–23 | |||||
| 2023–24 | Tushar Dedha (ABVP) | Abhi Dahiya (NSUI) | Aparajita Thakur (ABVP) | Sachin Baisla (ABVP) | |
| 2024–25 | Rounak Khatri (NSUI) | Bhanu Pratap Singh (ABVP) | Mitravinda Karanwal (ABVP) | Lokesh Choudhary (NSUI) | [51] |
| 2025–26 | Aryan Maan (ABVP) | Rahul Jhansla (NSUI) | Kunal Chaudhary (ABVP) | Deepika Jha (ABVP) | [52] |
| 2026–27 | Yash Dabas (ABVP) | Deepanshu Shokeen (Independent) | Riya Chhawdi (ABVP) | Lakshay Raj Singh (ABVP) | [53] |
Alumni
- Madan Singh Bisht, MLA from Dwarahat
- Viresh Pratap Chaudhry, awarded Padma Shri
- Vijay Goel, former MoS for Parliamentary Affairs
- Hari Shankar Gupta, former MLA from Wazirpur
- Rekha Gupta, Chief Minister of Delhi
- Vijender Gupta, Speaker of Delhi Legislative Assembly
- Ram Lakhina, founder of NICCT, awarded Pravasi Bharatiya Samman
- Arun Jaitley, former Minister of Finance
- Vijay Jolly, former MLA from Saket
- Alka Lamba, former MLA from Chandni Chowk
- Sudhanshu Mittal, President of International Kho Kho Federation
- Ajay Maken, former Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation
- Gajraj Bahadur Nagar, former Haryana Food and Supplies Minister
- Purnima Sethi, former Minister in Delhi
- Nupur Sharma, former National Spokesperson of BJP
- Rajat Sharma, founder of India TV, awarded Padma Bhushan
- Ashish Sood, Delhi Home Minister
- Satish Upadhyay, MLA from Malviya Nagar
- Anil Jha Vats, Deputy Leader of Opposition Delhi
