Elections were held at Jawaharlal Nehru University and once again, the United Left's red color was hoisted. Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) saw his victory in this defeat also.

It was expected that DU's electoral victory would be put to rest on the losses suffered in JNU and not reaching victory.

But this could not happen. In 2016, the ABVP who have won three out of four seats, have managed to win two seats in the Delhi University students elections.

The President's office, considered the biggest trophy in this election, came out of his hands.

In the JNU, the Left student organization had come in the midst of his victory, and surprisingly, the Congress student unit NSUI came in the way.

And NSUI did not take a lot of time to post-mortem of its victory and defeat of ABVP.

National Media Incharge of NSUI Neeraj Mishra told BBC Hindi, "It is a big win against the RSS and ABVP, along with the beatings against students, against corruption. This victory was incomplete without campaigning and social media."

Of course, nowadays every small victory is a trend to connect with central politics, but when it gets defeated, it becomes difficult to handle it.

ABVP also wants to see this defeat till the DU campus wall. ABVP national media convenor Saket Bahuguna said that last year they won three seats, this time in two seats, how can it be called defeat?

Bahuguna told BBC Hindi, "There are many reasons for this defeat. Local issues, topics related to university and dummy candidates standing against us, are all responsible for this defeat, but I do not think it should be linked to national politics."

But this victory of the NSUI is presenting the Congress as its return. Senior Congress leader Ajay Maken Dusu is excited by the results of elections and said that it is to dismiss the BJP and its policies.

But what does this victory mean for the NSUI (or Congress) and defeat ABVP (or BJP)?

Delhi University professor and political analyst Apurvananda said that these days, the student union elections are fought like a small assembly election, in which political parties put their reputation at stake.

He said to BBC Hindi, "It should not be so, but that is why these results (for ABVP) are a big setback because the claim was that it is a public opinion in a way."

Apurvaanand said that the victory in these elections was seen as acceptance of the Prime Minister, defeat should also be considered a rejection in some way.

In 1992, he reached Dusu by winning ABVP and now Atul Gangwar, who is working as a journalist, also tweeted about this. He said that it should be viewed in a national perspective because posters with photographs of many BJP leaders were also installed. In such a situation, they should also take some responsibilities of this defeat.

Asked how the student union elections have changed in the last few years, he said, "It was not like that before. ABVP and BJP were different. There was ideological support, but the rest had nothing to do with it."

Atul said, "ABVP felt that they were winning this election, so all was in taking the credit, but they forgot that the results are yet to come."

Whether these conclusions can be linked to national politics or not, whether it is a public opinion on the Central Government and the Prime Minister, what were the reasons at the grassroots that were left out of these grave questions that ABVP had to eat mouth?

When the reasons of these results were asked Ranganathan Ravi, who was doing PhD in the North Campus of Delhi University, he said, "The students were not really happy with ABVP's work. Apart from this, the camping of the NSUI was fantastic this time."

Ravi also accused viral video to some degree to the ABVP defeat. He said, "Many videos against ABVP were made viral on social media and the students were very puffed up."

At some time there had been news in the media that a large part of allotment to Dusu was spent on tea and coffee. This news also damaged ABVP.

Siddharth Raj of Motilal Nehru College said, "This report has made the students very angry. Apart from this, many people think that ABVP wants to take advantage of the cry of nationalism at all times."

Gurmeehar Kaur, who runs a social media campaign against ABVP, is also very happy with the results.

She tweeted, "Congratulations to every student of DU, you people have won their university re-election. You have shown that violence and hooliganism will not be accepted ... Congratulations to the NSUI and Rahul Gandhi on this victory."

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