Eyeing Delhi University student’s union elections which are conducted a few weeks after freshers join college, student wings of various political parties have set up their help desks to assist the undergraduate admission seekers. Admissions to over 60,000 seats in various undergraduate courses offered by sixty-three DU colleges began on Wednesday.
Though the process has been made entirely online reducing the need for candidates to visit the university or respective colleges, these student outfits have set up their help desks to assist those who land up at the campus.
Among those who set up the desks included Congress affiliated National Students’ Union of India (NSUI), BJP’s student wing Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad and AAP’s Chatra Yuva (CYSS).
While the DUSU poll battle has traditionally been between NSUI and ABVP, CYSS debuted last year but failed to open its account. All four seats were won by the ABVP. “We have been setting up help desks for long. Then it used to be for offline applications to help the candidates with what documents need to be submitted, to counsel them about colleges and courses and much more,” a NSUI member said.