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Delhi University Students Union
AbbreviationDUSU
FormationApril 9, 1949; 77 years ago (April 9, 1949) [1]
TypeStudent Organization
Legal statusNon-profit organizations
HeadquartersChhatra Marg, Delhi University North Campus, Delhi-110007, India
Coordinates28°41′16″N 77°12′32″E / 28.6878340°N 77.2088325°E / 28.6878340; 77.2088325
President
Yash Dabas (ABVP)
Vice President
Deepanshu Shokeen (Independent)
Secretary
Riya Chhawadi (ABVP)
Joint Secretary
Lakshay Raj Singh (ABVP)
Websitewww.dusu.du.ac.in

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]

History

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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

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Campaigning during DUSU 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

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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][1]
1975–76 Elections not held due to the emergency[23]
1976–77
1977–78 Vijay Goel (ABVP) Sunil Mittal (ABVP) Rajat Sharma (ABVP) T Joggulamba (ABVP) [24][21]
1978–79 Hari Shankar Gupta (NSUI rebel) Rajesh Oberoi (JVM) Vijay Jolly (ABVP) Pinky Anand [16][25]
1979–80 Rajesh Oberoi Bharti Kumari Pinky Anand Amit Sinha [16]
1980–81 Vijay Jolly (ABVP) Sonia Sobti Sushil Kumar Sanjay Khanna [26][6]
1981–82 Sudhanshu Mittal (ABVP) Arti Mehra Ajit Pandey Yogesh Sharma [8][27]
1982–83 Yogesh Sharma (ABVP) Satish Upadhyay (ABVP) RP Singh Meera Aggarwal [27]
1983–84 Anil Soni Balram Yadav Naresh Sharma Anju Malhotra
1984–85 Balram Yadav (ABVP) Vijender Gupta (ABVP) Satpal Dhunna Meera Aggarwal [27]
1985–86 Ajay Maken (NSUI) Madan Singh Bisht Rajesh Garg Neeraj Bala [28]
1986–87 Madan Singh Bisht (DCM) Anju Malhotra Narender Tandon Neena Sachdeva [29][1][30]
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[31]
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) [32]
1994–95 Shalu Malik (NSUI) Deepak Kumar Tyagi Vandana Mishra Tarun Tyagi [32][25]
1995–96 Alka Lamba (NSUI) Narendra Kumar Yadav Rekha Jindal (ABVP) Rajneesh Jindal [33][34]
1996–97 Rekha Jindal (ABVP) Anil Jha Vats (ABVP) Surender Goel Poonam Parashar [8]
1997–98 Anil Jha Vats (ABVP) Jayant Singh Chauhan (ABVP) Jitender Choudhary [6]
1998–99 Thakur 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 [25]
2002–03 Nakul Bhardwaj (ABVP) Sunder Daagar Ashok Basoya
2003–04 Rohit Chaudhary (NSUI) Narinder Tokas (NSUI) Ragini Nayak (NSUI) Pankaj Kochar [25]
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][35]
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) [36]
2008–09 Nupur Sharma (ABVP) Manohar Nagar (NSUI) Amit Choudhary (NSUI) Ashish Gahlot (NSUI) [6]
2009–10 Manoj Choudhary (ABVP) Kirti Wadhera (ABVP) Ashradeep Kaur (NSUI) Anupriya Tyagi (SCS)

(ABVP backed)

 [37]
2010–11 Jitender Choudhary (ABVP) Priya Dabas (ABVP) Neetu Dabas (ABVP) Akshay Kumar (NSUI) [38]
2011–12 Ajay Chhikara (NSUI) Vikas Choudhary (ABVP) Vikas Yadav (ABVP) Deepak Bansal (ABVP) [39]
2012–13 Arun Hooda (NSUI) Varun Khari (NSUI) Varun Choudhry (NSUI) Vishnu Basoya[b] (ABVP) [40]
Raveena Choudhary[b] (NSUI)
2013–14 Aman Awana (ABVP) Utkarsh Chaudhary (ABVP) Karishma Thakur (NSUI) Raju Rawat (ABVP) [41]
2014–15 Mohit Nagar (ABVP) Parvesh Malik (ABVP) Kanika Shekhawat (ABVP) Ashutosh Mathur (ABVP) [42]
2015–16 Satender Awana (ABVP) Sunny Dedha (ABVP) Anjali Rana (ABVP) Chhatarpal Yadav (ABVP) [43]
2016–17 Amit Tanwar (ABVP) Priyanka Chhawri (ABVP) Ankit Sangwan (ABVP) Mohit Garid (NSUI) [44]
2017–18 Rocky Tusheed (NSUI) Kunal Sehrawat (NSUI) Mahamedhaa Nagar (ABVP) Uma Shankar (ABVP) [45]
2018–19 Shakti Singh (ABVP) Shakti Singh

(ABVP) (upgraded to President)

 Akash Choudhary (NSUI) Jyoti Chaudhary (ABVP) [46]
2019–20 Akshit Daiya (ABVP) Pradeep Tanwar (ABVP) Ashish Lamba (NSUI) Shivangi Kharwal (ABVP) [47]
2020–21 Elections cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic in India[31]
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) [48]
2025–26 Aryan Maan (ABVP) Rahul Jhansla (NSUI) Kunal Chaudhary (ABVP) Deepika Jha (ABVP) [49]
2026–27 Yash Dabas (ABVP) Deepanshu Shokeen (Independent) Riya Chhawdi (ABVP) Lakshay Raj Singh (ABVP) [50]

Alumni

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Notes

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  1. ↑ Term extended till 1991
  2. 1 2 Served six months because the election was tied

References

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  5. ↑ Delhi University Students’ Union Constitution
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Sources

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  • Delhi University: Celebrating 100 Glorious Years. By Hardeep S. Puri · 2022. Rupa Publishers. ISBN 9789355203885.
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