DUSU president and NSUI chief Ronak Khatri led a protest exterior CM Rekha Gupta’s probably residence, demanding a 50 per cent metro fare concession for college students—an unmet demand pending for over a decade.
NEW DELHI: DUSU President and Congress-affiliated Nationwide College students’ Union of India (NSUI) chief Ronak Khatri, alongside together with his supporters, staged a protest on Sunday exterior the probably official residence of Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, demanding concession in metro fares for college students. The demonstrators demanded a 50 per cent concession on Delhi Metro fares for faculty college students — a promise they claimed has remained unfulfilled for over a decade.
In a publish on X the Delhi College College students’ Union (DUSU) president Khatri stated, “I utilized tilak on the brand new residence of former DUSU President and current Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta and requested that her 100 days of tenure are over.” “Her social gathering (ABVP) has been promising metro concession passes to college students for the previous 12-15 years,” he stated within the publish.
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He added {that a} formal letter of demand was submitted at Gupta’s residence. “Now it’s anticipated that her triple engine authorities will quickly implement the metro concession move within the curiosity of scholars,” he stated. Rekha Gupta, a former scholar of Daulat Ram Faculty and a senior Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Praishad (ABVP) chief, served as the final secretary of DUSU in 1995 and its president in 1996. her rise to the publish of chief minister is seen as a big second for scholar leaders transitioning to mainstream politics.
In one other publish on X, Khatri remarked, “Metro concession move has been a long-standing demand of Delhi College college students. The BJP-led Centre saved denying it, blaming the AAP-led state. Now, with a triple engine authorities, I hope dormer DUSU president and present Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta ji will turn into the scholars’ voice and ship on this promise.”
