[3] It is the representative body of the students from member colleges and university faculties and teaching departments.

[5] Ever since its establishment in 1922, students of Delhi University were deeply involved in the Independence Movement against British Colonial rule.

[1] There had been a long-standing demand for establishing a student body in the university, finally, in 1947 under the chairmanship of V. K. R. V. Rao, then head of the DU economics department, a provisional committee that included presidents of all constituent college unions was authorised to draft the constitution of the Delhi University Students’ Union.

Elections to the Union are held by direct voting by the students of the university faculties & teaching departments and member colleges.

The DUSU is a university-level umbrella organisation for university faculties and member colleges' Student Unions.