DU students race to raise voting awareness
Viksit Run hum sabke future ke liye hai... so we should all come together to take our country forward. SAINA NEHWAL, Badminton player
It was an early Wednesday morning yet the josh was high on Delhi University’s North Campus. This infectious energy emerged from over 5,000 youngsters who gathered to take part in the 2.4km-long Viksit Bharat Run. Cheering them on were actor RajKummar Rao and badminton ace Saina Nehwal, who came forward to use the medium of sports to create awareness about exercising one’s right to vote.
“Hum youth jab koshish karenge tabhi toh Bharat viksit hoga,” says Saatvik Misra, a first-year student of Sri Aurobindo College (Evening), who participated in the run and represented his college’s football team. Misra adds, “Sports give the youth a platform to showcase their talent and contribute towards taking the nation forward.”
Students active in National Cadet Corps (NCC) and National Service Scheme (NSS) units also got together to
This run is to inform students about their rights... voting so that they march can towards the nation’s vikas by casting their vote. YOGESH SINGH, Vice Chancellor of DU
participate in the run, which was flagged off by Nehwal and DUs Vice Chancellor Yogesh Singh. “When I registered [for the run] four days ago, I was only running as a student of DU. But today, I ran as a youth of the country alongside these two youth icons!” says Arti Singh, a firstyear student of Hansraj College, adding, “When RajKummar said, in Stree movie wala style, ‘Doston, pleej!’ I thought, at least, now my friends will go for voting, instead of ditching their duty for faltu plans!”