New Delhi, Sep 3 (Inditop.com) Over 40,000 students of Delhi University (DU) will Friday vote to elect a new students union amid a controversy over disqualification of several frontline student leaders’ candidature.
Around 30 candidates will fight out for the four major posts – president, vice president, secretary and joint secretary. Over 60 colleges of the university participate in the Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) elections.
The polling for the day colleges will start 8.30 a.m. and end at 12.30 in the afternoon. For evening colleges, the timings will be 3-7 p.m.
The Delhi High Court Tuesday dismissed the petition of five candidates who had challenged their disqualification from the DUSU elections, saying the chief election officer had taken the decision in accordance with the rules.
On Tuesday, the high court had dismissed the plea of the five – Deepak Negi of the National Students’ Union of India (NSUI), Rohit Chahal of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) for the president’s post, Umesh Tomar (NSUI) for vice-president, Lalit Kumar (ABVP) for secretary and Ashok Khare (ABVP) for joint secretary.
They had approached the court after they were disqualified by the university’s election officer.
A total of six candidates including these five were found spending more money than the fixed amount of Rs.5,000 each, using cars and organising rallies for their election campaigns which was against the recommendations made by a panel headed by former chief election commissioner J.M. Lyngdoh.
