Morale booster to Cong, strong jolt to BJP in DUSU elections

The result of DUSU elections is a booster to the sagging Congress morale and a very strong jolt to the ruling BJP at the Centre. Delhi University being the most prestigious in the country, the message which goes out of it has a great significance. It is the first time in four years that Congress grabbed the post of President in Delhi University Students' Union elections. The posts of president and vice president went to Congress and Secretary and Joint Secretary went to BJP. From any parameter of political standard, it can easily be deduced that the popularity of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has gone down among the students of DU, JNU, Punjab and Rajasthan University where the elections to students' union have recently been held. Whether the BJP accepts it or not, one thing that clearly indicates is that the students’ community dislikes the politics of division, discrimination, distortion, deviousness, and recrimination, which is being promoted and played by the fringe groups of the ruling political party. The students want peace, progress, employment, and co-existence. Prime Minister Narendra Modi should have realized that by only giving long speech extempore and doing nothing on the ground among the people are bound to fall flat. Preaching cannot fill the empty stomachs of the people. The youth had wholeheartedly supported PM Modi in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections with great hope. They chanted 'Modi, Modi very loudly as a sign of their approval to him, who now appears to be realizing that he is no different from his predecessors. The hastily introduced GST and whimsically implemented demonetization has now proved to be great failures. The market is getting gloomier and gloomier and economic growth has come down by two per cents. The employment opportunities are shrinking day by day in contrary to the promises made by PM Modi during 2014 Lok Sabha elections that if voted to power, his govt. would generate 2 Crore jobs every year for the youth of the country. The reality is that even 2 lakh jobs have not been created in any one of the three years of BJP govt. The condition of Jammu and Kashmir is getting worse and worse. It appears that Modi govt. is directionless and has no policy on Kashmir. Realizing the all round disillusionment prevailing in the country, the students of DU have given a very appropriate message to BJP to awake within the time. Otherwise, it would face the same fate as Congress faced in 2014. The vote of the people must not be taken for granted by politicians. The BJP may say that DUSU result will have no impact on the popularity graph of PM, but one thing is crystal clear that BJP must read the writing on the wall. Otherwise, it is bound to be thrown out. Only tall speech of PM is no longer taken seriously by the people. Congress must also be not in any delusion that with the victory in DU, it has won the battle. Its battle has begun now and be fought democratically to take to the logical end. Congress is also required to cast off its lethargy and overhaul organizational set-ups from the village to the national units as soon as possible.