Suryaa National Desk: Surya National Desk (New Delhi): All India Vidyarthi Parishad in the student union elections of universities and colleges held across the state of Odisha... Surya National Desk (New Delhi): The Akhil Bharat Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) has won a landslide victory in Odisha's statewide university and college student union elections. Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP national leaders congratulated the ABVP workers on this victory. The home minister took to the social media platform to praise the fact that ABVP won the most seats in the 13 major universities of Odisha after the election victories of Punjab University and Delhi University, which is a proof of the popularity of the nationalist ideology in the country.
Amit Shah commented that Yuva Shakti stood by the ideology of working for the good of the country, rejecting the forces that spread illusions, misconceptions and chaos in the country. The BJP leadership expressed confidence that the youth of the country will play a vital role in achieving the goal of Vikasit Bharat 2047 in the coming period. He said that the verdict of this election has made it clear that the student body is giving priority to national interests while following the aspirations of Swami Vivekananda. After a gap of eight years, the student union elections were held on October 15 in 337 higher education institutions across the state of Odisha.
About 56 percent polling has been recorded in this election. A total of 3,610 seats were democratically elected at the level of universities and colleges, where ABVP panel candidates emerged victorious in majority of the seats.