Members of various student groups are now conducting door-to-door campaigning, visiting the houses of the students to secure their support with a few days left for the election at DAV (PG) College.
ABVP member and former students union president Ashish Rawat said that ABVP members are conducting door to door campaign at various places in Dehradun. “They are reaching out to Raipur, Premnagar, Sahaspur, Jakhan and Vikasnagar explaining why they should opt for the ABVP candidates,” he said.However, the BJP’s student affiliate which won the post of the president last year is yet to announce the name of its candidate for the post till now.
College insiders said that large number of aspirants is making it difficult for the union leadership to take the final call. The candidate’s name will be declared soon maybe on the weekend. Aryan Group too is busy attempting to garner support. Students union general secretary and group member Sachin Thapliyal said that the group’s team had visited Biharigadh on Friday to motivate student votersin their favour.
Apart from door to door campaigning the group has also drafted a campaign plan for members to reaching out to the college students by all possible means, he said, adding that their focus was on the new voters, the students, who have enrolled in the college this year. Group members aver to be campaigning in Chhatmalpur, Vikasnagar, Kalsi, Jaunsar, Kanwali, Sahaspur, Mohkhampur, Doiwala, Premnagar and other areas.
Meanwhile, a group delegation met the college principal Rakesh Kumar Verma on Friday to submit a memorandum, demanding reduction in parking fee on the college campus. Due to hiked parking fee, the students are finding it difficult to park their vehicles in the parking lot inside the campus, the group said.
Notably, the students park their vehicles in the college campus as well as outside, resulting in chronic traffic congestion on the road outside the college campus.