Chhatra Yuva Sangharsh Samiti (CYSS) — the student wing of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) —stunned its opponents in its debut at the Panjab University Campus Students’ Council (PUCSC) elections on Tuesday. CYSS presidential candidate Aayush Khatkar won the student council’s top post by bagging 2712 votes.
His nearest rival Harish Gujjar of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the student wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), managed to get 2052 votes. In one of the fiercest competitions in recent years, a total eight candidates were in fray for the PUCSC president’s post.
AAP’s national convener Arvind Kejriwal, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, and other AAP leaders congratulated CYSS and also Khatkar on winning the elections.
“AAP’s student wing CYSS has secured a landslide victory in the Panjab University elections. Many congratulations to Ayush Khatkar on becoming the President…Today youth across the country is looking towards ‘AAP’ with great expectation, joining in large numbers. AAP is a party of youth. The youth will take over the reins of the country in future.” Tweeted Kejriwal.
Mann also tweeted, “Youth can change the country's destiny if they want…Today the students of Panjab University have proved it…The spectacular victory of Aam Aadmi Party's student wing CYSS has further strengthened the thinking of Bhagat Singh…Ayush Khatkar becomes the president…Congratulations to the entire team.”
Meanwhile, Panjab Education Minister Gurmeet Singh Hyer reached Panjab University campus to join the party's student wing in their celebrations at the iconic PU Student Centre. “Panjab University Students Election victory is verdict in favor of policies of our national convener Arvind Kejriwal and Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann. Youth has rejected communal ideology and Operation Lotus,” he tweeted.