The polls to the Delhi University Students’ Union will see a woman candidate fighting for the president post from the Congress-backed NSUI after a gap of 11 years.

NSUI’s arch rival ABVP had last fielded a woman candidate in 2011.

National Student’s Union of India’s Chetna Tyagi will take on Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad’s Akshit Dahiya and Left-backed All India Students’ Association’s Damini Kain for the post of president, in the Delhi University Student Union (DUSU) 2019-20 elections to be held on September 12.

Its arch-rival, RSS-backed ABVP, had fielded Neha Singh for the top DUSU post in 2011 but she had lost to the NSUI candidate.

The ABVP has fielded Pradeep Tanwar for the vice-president post, Yogit Rathee for the secretary and Shivangi Kherwal for the post of joint secretary.

The NSUI has fielded Ankit Bharti for the vice-president post, Ashish Lamba for the secretary and Abhishek Chaprana for the joint secretary post.

Mental and physical training to women, special bus passes, tactile paths for differently abled students, scholarships, a functional library, reading room, rollback of hostel fees, campaigns on menstrual hygiene, are some of the big achievements, ABVP is relying highly on.

The group that has begun campaigning for the upcoming elections, has been in power in the DUSU in the previous academic year.

Candidates can file their nomination by September 4, 2019, and those who wish to withdraw their nomination can do the same by September 5, 2019. The voting will be conducted from 8: 30 AM to 1 PM. The dates for the declaration of the results will be declared later.

The nomination forms can be downloaded from the official DU website and prospective candidates should take the print out of the form, preferably of A4 size.