ABVP Elections 2025: Raghuraj Kishore Tiwari elected president; Virendra Singh Solanki general secretary

The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) announced the results for ABVP Elections 2025. Raghuraj Kishore Tiwari has been elected as ABVP national president, and Virendra Singh Solanki has been re-elected as national general secretary. Both the office bearers will assume their responsibility during the ABVP’s 71st National Conference.

While announcing the results of the election of ABVP’s national president and general secretary, the election officer and special invitee member to the executive committee of ABVP , Masadi Bapurao announced that ABVP’s 71st conference is scheduled to be held on November 28, 29, and 30 in Dehradun, Uttarakhand.

Tiwari, a native of Rewa in Madhya Pradesh, earned his PhD in Agronomy from Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwavidyalaya (Agricultural University), Jabalpur.

Solanki, who hails from Indore, Madhya Pradesh, completed his MBBS at the Sri Aurobindo Institute of Medical Sciences (SAIMS), Indore, and is currently pursuing an MD with a specialization in Community Medicine at the same institution.

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ABVP’s national president

Tiwari is currently serving as a professor in the department of Agronomy at the Rewa campus of the same university. He has been associated with ABVP since 1987. As a student activist, he served as the elected president of the Student Union of the College of Agriculture, Rewa, and also as the state secretary of the Mahakaushal Prant.

He was honoured with the University’s Best Teacher Award in 2014 by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) and received the Distinguished Scientist Award (2016) from Tribhuvan University, Nepal.

Furthermore, he played a crucial role as a member of the implementation committee of the National Education Policy (NEP) in Madhya Pradesh. Currently, he is the principal advisor for Agricultural Student Activities (Agrivision) and a Special Invitee Member of the National Executive Council.

ABVP’s national general secretary

Solanki has been active in ABVP since 2014. Through 'MeDeVision' - an initiative of ABVP for allopathy students, he has provided national leadership to medical and dental students and has played a pivotal role in resolving their key concerns. He led a successful campaign at Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya (DAVV), Indore, demanding the suspension of the vice chancellor on the charges of corruption and irregularities in examinations.

He successfully led a movement in MP demanding reimbursement of commercialisation-driven fee hikes in private medical colleges. In 2018, he also played a key role in protecting the academic futures of students from another private medical college, which was shut down suddenly.