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1.2 million students. 8,000 campuses. 76 years of campus organising. We are not a party — we are a Parishad. A movement of students working for national reconstruction, one campus at a time. Karyakarta first. Cadre always.
ABVP organises its work across specialised wings — each a karya kshetra, run by students, focused on a sector. Pick the one that lights you up.
India's largest student think tank. Policy debates, panel discussions, op-eds, and bharatiya intellectual tradition meeting modern problems. We don't tweet — we publish.
→ // researchUndergraduate research grants, science fairs, innovation labs. Curiosity, supported.
→ // womenWomen Students Yantra. Self-defence + safe campuses.
→ // medicalFree clinics, blood drives, mental-health peer support across 400+ medical colleges. Seva is the syllabus.
→ // agriRural immersion. Farmer outreach. Climate-resilient cropping pilots. Six weeks in a village changes how you read every news headline forever.
→ // dharmaStudents for Holistic Development of Humanity. The deeper philosophical work — bharatiya darshan applied to today's questions.
→Two minds shaped how we think. Read them. Disagree with them. Then read them again. That's how prerana actually works.
"Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached." His call to youth — to combine spiritual depth with civic action — is the bedrock of our movement.
Read more →The architect of ABVP's karya paddhati. He built an organisation where the karyakarta — not the office bearer — is the most important person in the room.
Read more →Founded 9 July 1949 in New Delhi. From a single chapter to the largest student organisation on the planet. Sangathan first. Drag right →
Registered 9 July 1949 as an NGO. Prof. Om Prakash Bahal as first National President, Sri Keshav Deo Verma as first General Secretary. First convention held in Ambala.
Prof. Yashwantrao Kelkar joins as full-timer. Builds the karya paddhati that still runs the organisation today — decentralised, karyakarta-led, and stubborn.
ABVP plays a defining role in the Bihar student movement and Total Revolution. Cadres organised across Bihar, Gujarat, and beyond.
Students' Experience in Inter-State Living. Pen-pals, but make it a real flight, host family, and 21-day cultural deep-dive. Still our most chaotic, most loved programme.
First overseas chapters. WOSY, Think India and Jignasa launched as dedicated wings. Active across 14 countries today.
With Vidyarthi Nidhi Trust. Self-defence, scholarships and safe-campus reforms for women students. 80,000 trained in year one.
Crossed one million active members. Then we updated the logo. Sangathan grows; aesthetics catch up.
The next chapter is genuinely up to whoever joins next. Could be you. Probably is.
No press releases. No PR-approved soundbites. Three real karyakartas on what they actually got out of this.
I joined for the free chai at orientation, fr. Stayed because by November I was running a Think India debate with a ₹2 lakh budget and an actual team. Speedran the leadership tree.
Our unit ran a free coding bootcamp for first-gen students last summer. 60 kids, four weekends, zero adults micromanaging. Karyakarta-led actually means karyakarta-led. Wild concept.
Honestly thought ABVP would be all sloganeering. Some of it is. But it's also the first place I've been where students argue policy at midnight, then cook khichdi together at 1 AM. That's the part nobody films.
Membership is free. The form takes 90 seconds. We don't ask for your CGPA, your background, or your LinkedIn. We ask for your name, your campus, and which aayam you vibe with. That's it.