NEW DELHI: With Lok Sabha elections in Delhi still weeks away, the student wings of various political parties in the national capital have already started pitching in with various campaigns and programmes to woo voters, especially first-time voters.
The Delhi University unit of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the student’s wing of the RSS, and the BJP’s youth morcha have drawn up a detailed campaigning plan to seek votes for Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The plan includes door-to-door campaigning, attracting young voters, and reaching areas dominated by marginalised people.
“Initially, we are organising certain programmes and targeting the young voters to encourage them to at least vote,” Ashutosh, the national media in charge of the ABVP, said.
“Gradually, we will reach the university level and conduct small-scale meetings to motivate the students to come out and vote for issues-based politics. We will reach out to the first-time university voters through talks, plays and debates,” he added.
BJYM
Meanwhile, the BJP’s youth Morcha (BJYM) has already started organising ‘Namo Yuva Chaupal’, where they gather in large numbers to discuss elections and other issues in various manuals or districts. According to the BJYM, two lakh youth chaupals have been planned to be organised across the country, and the target is to reach out to lakhs of youths, where they will be informed about the youth-centirc works being done under the leadership of PM Modi.
“BJYM West Delhi gearing up for 2024 General Elections , meeting youth across constituency and making sure no stone left un turn to deliver 7-0 in Delhi leading to NamoAgain2024,” Saurabh Satpal Kharwal, West Delhi district BJYM president, had posted on X.
Parallelly, the BJP supporters on social media have already added prefixes to their X handles as ‘Modi ka Pariwar’.
Opposition
The National Students’ Union of India (NSUI), the students’ outfit of the Congress, is also working on similar plans. “We are organising several programmes for students under our campaign ‘Judega Vidhyarthi Jeetega India’, Nitish, the NSUI media in charge, said. Under the initiative, a nationwide mobilisation of students will be undertaken by the NSUI as an extension of Rahul’s Bharat Jodo Yatra, whose slogan was Give Up Hate, Unite Bharat,” he said.
“We will conduct a membership drive in these institutions and set up new units there,” the student leader added. The Lok Sabha elections will be held in the national capital in a single phase on May 25 with the counting of votes on June 4.
ABVP plans student meeting, NSUI to hold march
The Delhi University unit of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the student’s wing of the RSS, said it will hold a meeting and organise programmes to motivate first-time voters. The NSUI, Congress’s student union will be mobilising the students through a yatra.