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37 per cent students turn out for DUSU polls | In a controversy filled Delhi University Students' Union (DUSU) elections this year, a total of 37 per cent students on Friday voted for the post of President,
Vice-President, Secretary and Joint Secretary. "The polls were peaceful and recorded
a turnout of 37 per cent. Everything worked well and no complaints of EVMs were
received," said Chief Returning Officer J M Khurana. Twenty-nine candidates contested
for the key posts, excluding the five candidates whom the Chief Election Officer
had disqualified from contesting. The Chief Election Officer had disqualified
five candidates, Deepak Negi for the post of President (NSUI) and Umesh Tomar
for the post of Vice President (NSUI) and Rohit Chahal for President (ABVP), Lalit
Kumar for Secretary (ABVP) and joint secretary Ashok Khare (ABVP), on the ground
of violation of code of conduct following failure to comply with the Lyngdoh Committee
recommendations. This year only one candidate each from NSUI and ABVP are contesting,
Kirti Wadhera (ABVP) for the post of Vice-President and Arshdeep Kaur (NSUI) for
the post of secretary. The Supreme Court had yesterday sealed the fate of all
the five students, who had challenged disqualification of their nomination for
the election. The apex court dismissed the special leave petition filed by NSUI
candidate Deepak Negi and another student, and said: "We find no ground to interfere
with the impugned order of the High Court. The petition is dismissed." Following
disqualification of candidates from major parties, candidates from Students' Federation
of India (SFI), Indian National Student Organisation (INSO) and AISA have emerged
as frontrunners for the presidential post.
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