Women safety, body for NE students in NSUI manifesto

New Delhi, Sep 6 (PTI) Rollback of the Choice Based CreditSystem, a body for students from the northeast, regularpanchayat and women safety measures on the campus are some ofthe prominent issues on NSUI’s agenda for the upcoming DelhiUniversity polls. National Student Union of India (NSUI), Congress’ studentwing, today released its manifesto for the DU Students Union(DUSU) polls slated for September 9. Besides this, it has already released a special "womenmanifesto" and "manifesto for northeastern students" ahead ofthe polls. NSUI’s major challenge is to beat the BJP affiliated ABVPwhich has been sweeping all four seats of DUSU for the pasttwo consecutive years and is aiming at a hat-trick this year. "Due to the fear of losing, our opponents are pretendingto be nationalists in the campuses now and projecting anyoneelse who is against the agenda of the RSS as anti-nationals.It is rather unfortunate that these people who stayed awayfrom the freedom struggle and were also involved in the murderof Mahatma Gandhi are now wearing the mask of nationalism,"senior Congress leader Randeep Surjewala said. Construction of more hostels, physical and academicinfrastructure for differently-abled students, incentives forsports and extra-curricular activities, free health insuranceand ensuring student representation in the governing body ofcolleges are other issues on NSUI agenda. DUSU is the representative body of the students from mostcolleges and faculties of the varsity. Apart from DUSU, whichis an umbrella council, each college also has its ownstudents’ union for which they hold separate elections. Students’ wings of various political parties haveintensified their campaign. A total of 91 candidates are in the fray for the fourcrucial DUSU posts. There are 27 candidates for the post ofpresident, 19 for vice-president, 24 for secretary and 21 forthe post of joint secretary. PTI GJS ASV ZMNASV