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Counting of votes underway
The counting of the votes for the post of President in the Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) is takling place today, i.e. September 13, 2017. The election was earlier held on Tuesday with nearly 43 per cent voter turnout.
“The morning colleges of the Delhi University has recorded voter turnout of 45.3 percentage while he consolidated figure will be revealed after the final tally,” S B Babbar, DUSU Chief Election Officer was quoted while interacting with PTI.
He later told PTI that the final tally of the elections was 43 per cent.
According to professors tracking the polls, far flung colleges under the central varsity recorded a poor turnout, whereas campus colleges exhibited a relatively higher voter turnout.
In the college unions polling, which took place simultaneously with the DUSU polls, Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) won all the top positions – president, vice president, secretary and joint secretary – in Laxmi Bai College, Vivekananda College and Shri Venkateshwara College.
The students’ outfit also won top two positions in SGTB Khalsa College, Zakir Hussain College (Morning), Bhagini Nivdita College (BNC) among others.
Bigwigs like NSUI and ABVP flooded the streets with pamphlets near Satyawati College. NSUI supporters were seen campaigning for their presidential candidate Rocky Tusheed with loud music systems blaring ‘We love We Love Rocky’.
The left-affliated AISA also distributed pamphlets to students and was campaigning in support of their candidate Parull chauhan.
The students’ outfit also won top two positions in SGTB Khalsa College, Zakir Hussain College (Morning), Bhagini Nivdita College (BNC) among others.
In the college unions polling, which took place simultaneously with the DUSU polls, Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) won all the top positions – president, vice president, secretary and joint secretary – in Laxmi Bai College, Vivekananda College and Shri Venkateshwara College.
According to professors tracking the polls, far flung colleges under the central varsity recorded a poor turnout, whereas campus colleges exhibited a relatively higher voter turnout.
Students enrolled for the regular – day classes – cast their votes from 8.30 am to 1.00 pm on Tuesday. The evening classes students had exercised franchise from 3.00 pm to 7.30 pm on Tuesday.
ABVP has fielded Rajat Choudhary for the post of the President, Parth Rana for Vice President, Mahamedha for the post of General Secretary and Uma Shankar Joint Secretary.
Rocky Tuseed has been choosed for the post of president at NSUI while Kunal Sehrawat i selected for the post of vice-president, Meenakshi Meena for Secretary and Avinash Yadav for Joint Secretary.
33 FIRs have been lodged in this regard and police has also issued direction that any illegal defacement of properties will be dealt with heavy hands. Meanwhile, the court has sought a report regarding the same and asked “How many have been arrested? Can’t you identify the people? Whose posters are they? Under which sections FIRs have been lodged? We had asked you to take action. What have you done?”
During the hearing, the court was informed by the South Delhi Municipal Corporation and the North Delhi Municipal Corporation that they have already removed the banners though it has failed to impress the bench which asked the corporations what action they have taken against the violators and how many have been arrested.
The court issued show cause notice to NSUI’s presidential candidate Rocky Tuseed and ABVP’s Ankit Basoya and Mahamedha Nagar and the hearing for the same has been scheduled on September 20.
The court also had issued show cause notice to over 10 candidates including RSS-backed ABVP and Congress-backed NSUI, and asked them to explain why action should not be taken against them for allegedly defacing public property by pasting advertisements and putting banners.
According to reports, there was around 14 per cent polling in Aryabhatta College, 45 per cent in Shraddhanand College and 557 voted out of 1,594 in Bhagini Nivedita College while in Aditi Mahavidyalaya, out of 2,300 students, 690 voted.
The RSS’ student wing ABVP, the Congress’ NSUI and left wing outfits were seen making last minute efforts to garner votes for their candidates.
Latest media report suggests that the counting of the votes has already been started and is underway. Moreover , a tight security has been deployed at community center for the DUSU election counting.
