The Delhi High Court has banned the publication of the results of the Delhi University Student Union elections. A petition was filed in the High Court regarding the recent election violence in DU College. It was said that public property is damaged during elections.
Hearing this, Justice Manmohan said that the results should not be declared until the university satisfies the court that all posters, hoardings, play-cards have been removed from the colleges. According to the election notification, the results were to be declared on September 28.
Voting for the Delhi University elections started from 8.30 am on Friday. In which 1 lakh 40 thousand students of 52 colleges will be able to vote through EVM for 4 central posts (President, Vice President, Secretary and Joint Secretary).
This election is being held in 2 phases. College students voted from 8:30 am to 1 pm. While students of evening colleges will vote from 3 pm to 7.30 pm.
Candidates from Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), National Students Union of India (NSUI) and Left parties (AISA, SFI) are in neck-and-neck competition for 4 posts.
A total of 21 candidates are in the fray. In which 8 candidates are contesting for the post of President, 5 candidates for the post of Vice President, 4 candidates for the post of Joint Secretary and 4 candidates for the post of Secretary.
Tight security arrangements were made for the DU elections.
Neck-to-neck competition between ABVP, NSUI and Left for 4 posts
- President post Hence, there is a fierce battle between ABVP's Rishabh Chaudhary, NSUI's Raunak Khatri and AISA's Sevi Gupta. Rishabh Chaudhary is a resident of Sonepat, Haryana. He is a graduate of Shyam Lal College and a student of Buddhist Studies. Meanwhile, Saivi Gupta is studying law.
- Vice President ABVP's Bhanu Pratap Singh, NSUI's Yash Nandal and AISA's Ayush Mandal are in a fierce battle for the post.
- Secretary ABVP has nominated Mitravinda Karanwal for the post. Karanwal is a History (Hons) student at Laxmibai College. Karanwal is contesting against NSUI's Namrata Jeff Meena and SFI's Anamika. Anamika is currently pursuing Masters in Political Science.
- of Joint Secretary ABVP's Aman Kapasia who graduated in Hindi (Hons) from PGDNV Evening College will face NSUI's Lokesh Chaudhary and Sneha Agarwal for the post.
ABVP, NSUI and Left parties are mainly in the fray in DUSU. Left parties are contesting elections together with AISA and SFI.
Professor Satyapal Singh was made Chief Electoral Officer The committee for the election has been announced by the DU administration. Satyapal Singh, Professor of Sanskrit Department, has been appointed as the Chief Electoral Officer. At the same time, Professor Chandra Shekhar of Persian Department has been appointed as Election Advisor and Professor Raj Kishore Sharma of Chemistry Department has been appointed as Chief Returning Officer.
Last time ABVP won 3 seats while NSUI won 1 seat In the last elections of Delhi University Student Union, Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad won the posts of President, Secretary and Joint Secretary. There were 24 candidates for 4 central posts. NSUI won the post of Vice President. ABVP-turned-president Tushar Dedha got 23 thousand 460 votes, while Hitesh Gulia (NSUI) got 20 thousand 345 votes.
While Abhi Dahiya (NSUI) won the post of Vice President. Sushant Dhankhar (ABVP), Anushka Chaudhary (AISA) and Ankit (SFI) were also in the fray for the post. Aparajita (ABVP) has won the post of secretary. Yakshna Sharma (NSUI), Aditya Pratap Singh (AISA) and Aditi Tyagi (SFI) also contested.
In 2019, 3 out of four seats were won by ABVP In the 2019 Delhi University Students' Union elections, the ABVP won three out of four seats. Elections could not be held in 2020 and 2021 due to Corona, while elections were not held in 2022 due to disruption in the academic calendar.
Chief Electoral Officer Professor Chandrasekhar said a record 42% voter turnout in the university on Friday. In 52 colleges, voting was done through EVMs while voting was done through ballot paper for the college union. Which is 2.10 percent more than 39.90% of 2019 election. However, the record turnout was 44.46% in 2018 and 42.8% in 2017.
60 lakh to one crore rupees were spent in the election The Supreme Court in 2005 ordered the formation of a committee to prepare guidelines for student union elections. In 2006, the Lyngdoh Committee gave its recommendations that a candidate should spend only Rs 5,000 on campaigning. Which was also approved by the Supreme Court.
According to this candidate can spend only 5 thousand rupees. The committee had said that no printed posters would be used in the campaign and that they would be put up only at certain designated places in the university, but activists say that Rs 60 lakh to Rs 1 crore was spent on the presidential election at Delhi University.
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