Saurashtra University students complain about unemployment, exam paper leaks, education costs

“AAP ka vichar achchha hai education par (AAP’s ideas about education is good),” says Ranva Dalip, who hails from Morbi and is a first-year master’s student. Though he adds quickly that the party will take time coming up in a big way. Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal-led party’s high decibel campaign focussed on the issues of education and health besides corruption has its share of takers on the campus of the region’s main university which draws students from across its various districts. While many poll watchers believe that the Congress remains the closest rival to the BJP in the state, most of these young voters find the party an unattractive choice, providing the AAP a ready space to step in.

MCA student Darshan Jethva, who is from Amreli, says the Congress is a “dying” party whose leaders are heard only during elections. “This time they have not been heard much even during the polls,” he says referring to the party’s rather subdued campaign, as the group of students around him laugh. There is one figure, however, who rises above the mixed emotions any debate on election triggers to command wide support and admiration.