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DUSU election 2018 today: Voting begins at 8.30 am: Five candidates for the presidential race
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DUSU election 2018 today: Voting begins at 8.30 am: Five candidates for the presidential race
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Elections to the University of Delhi (DUSU) are scheduled for today, with the start of 8.30 pm with the voting. Students need to take their identity cards to cast their votes. Votes will be counted on Thursday (September 13th) at 8:30 pm in a community hall in police lines in Kingsway Camp area of Delhi.
The DUSU elections is a triangular contest this year, with the entry of the alliance of the All India Students' Association (AISA) and the Aam Aadmi Party's student wing, Chhatra Yuva Sangharsh Samiti (CYSS). The alliance is expected to divide the votes that may have gone in favour of either of the two major student bodies — the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) and the National Students' Union of India (NSUI).
Voting is underway in morning colleges for the Delhi University Students' Union (DUSU) polls, with 1.35 lakh students registered as voters to decide the fate of 23 candidates. While the National Students' Union of India (NSUI) has promised the ‘Institute of Eminence’ tag for Delhi University and ‘thalis’ for Rs 10, the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) has promised to spend 50 percent of the union's budget on women and social justice-related activities, along with a special attention to promoting sports and installing sanitary pad vending machines on college campuses.
Five candidates for the presidential election and vice president of DUSU.
ABVP has fielded Ankit Basoya for the post of president. He is pursuing an MA in Buddhist studies. Shakti Singh is the Vice President of ABVP. He is studying law in DU's faculty law. Sudhir of ABVP, who is fighting for the post of Secretary, got a bachelor's degree from Ramjas College and is currently pursuing an MA in Buddhist studies. Jyoti Chaudhary, who is contesting for the post of joint secretary on an ABVP ticket, completed her graduation from Vivekananda College and is also pursuing an MA in Buddhist Studies at present.
NSUI nominated Sunny Chillar for DUSU President's post. Chilar, son of Delhi Traffic Police assistant sub-inspector, got a bachelor's degree from Dayal Singh College and is receiving a postgraduate degree from Shivaji College. Lena, who graduated from Miranda House and is currently pursuing an MA in Buddhist studies, is a candidate for the Vice President of NSUI.
Aakash Choudhary, who is contesting for the secretary's post, was the union president of his alma matter, Sri Aurobindo College. He is currently pursuing law. Saurabh Yadav, the joint secretary candidate, is currently studying at Motilal Nehru College.
The AISA-CYSS Alliance has fielded the students' program of Ramjas College for the post of DUSU president. Anshuka Singh, a student of Dayal Singh College, is fighting for the post of Vice President. Student of Law Center-2 Chandrama Deo was nominated for the position of secretary. PGDAV College student Sunny Tanwar is a coalition candidate for Joint Secretary.
Only five women nominated for DUSU elections
Women's representation in the DUSU elections continues to remain low, with only five women contesting the polls this year of a total of 23 candidates. According to The Indian Express, six of the 24 candidates were women last year, and in 2016, eight of the 17 candidates were women.
The Indian National Students' Organisation's Preeti Chauhan is the only woman nominated for the post of the DUSU president this year.
NSUI wants candidature of ABVP's vice-presidential nominee cancelled
The NSUI on Tuesday demanded the cancellation of the nomination of ABVP's Shakti Singh for "indulging in violence", reported NDTV. On Monday, members of the ABVP defaced property at Delhi's Zakir Hussain College, while wielding sticks and raising slogans, reports said.
"This all began when ABVP candidate Shakti Singh forcibly entered the college with 50 to 100 of his friends and started ransacking the property. To protect ourselves, we left the college and later picketed on the road for hours, demanding action," Anoop, a student of the college, told IANS.
However, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Central Delhi), Manjeet Randhawa, denied receiving any complaint from the college.
NSUI focuses on digital platforms
The NSUI has claimed that this year, it became the first student organisation to launch a "digital manifesto" for the DUSU polls. Neeraj Mishra, an NSUI media coordinator, was quoted as saying by The Asian Age: "Keeping in view the spirit of digital revolution introduced by former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, the manifesto was launched on Facebook and Twitter, where #NSUIDigiManifesto was on the top in the trending list in India."
Pragya Tomar of the NSUI told The Times of India, "I believe in paperless campaigning, and that is why we are focussing more on digital platforms.
Last year's results
In 2017, 10 candidates contested for the presidential post. The contestants at the forefront were ABVP's Rajat Choudhary, NSUI's Rocky Tusheed, AISA's Parul Chauhan and Independents Raja Choudhary and Alka. The NSUI had bagged the posts of president and vice-president, while the RSS-affiliated ABVP had won the posts of secretary and joint secretary.Tuseed became the DUSU president and Kunal Sehrawat the vice-president. ABVP's Mahamedhaa Nagar became the DUSU secretary and Uma Shankar, the joint secretary.
DUSU elections 2018: Triangular fight in student union elections on 12 Sep as AISA joins hands with AAP-backed CYSS
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DUSU elections 2018: Triangular fight in student union elections on 12 Sep as AISA joins hands with AAP-backed CYSS
The Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) elections which will be held on 12 September, will be a triangular contest this time, with the entry of the alliance of All India Students’ Association (AISA) and the Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) student wing, Chhatra Yuva Sangharsh Samiti (CYSS).
According to the university's statement, the elections will be held in colleges as well to elect the members of the Central Council. The last date of filing nominations is 4 September. By the same date, candidates for the post of members of the Central Council must obtain their nomination papers from the concerned colleges or departments. The scrutiny of nomination papers will be done on the same day, after which a list of duly nominated candidates will be published, the statement said. Meanwhile, the candidates can withdraw their nominations till 5 September.
On 12 September, the voting is expected to start at 8.30 am and end by 7.30 pm. However, the date and venue for the counting of votes has not been announced yet, IANS reported.
In 2017, a total of 10 candidates contested for the presidential post with the main contestants being Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP)'s Rajat Choudhary, National Students' Union of India (NSUI)'s Rocky Tusheed, AISA's Parul Chauhan and independents Raja Choudury and Alka.
NSUI, ABVP dominate elections
However, AISA-CYSS alliance's entry is expected to divide the votes which may have gone in favour of either of the two major student bodies, NSUI and ABVP. According to, the DUSU election results of last few years clearly indicate that there's no third outfit capable enough of winning even one of the four major posts in contention in the student body polls. Last year, Congress's NSUI had bagged the posts of president and vice president while the RSS-affiliated Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) had won the posts of secretary and joint secretary, as per PTI reports.
But, the CYSS has been claiming that the DUSU elections have become synonymous to "money and muscle power". "CYSS and AISA will fight the elections with a focus on positive politics, better education and improved services," AAP leader and Delhi Minister Gopal Rai said on Saturday on the launch of the joint manifesto.
AISA-CYSS alliance promises change from politics of 'money and power'
Installation of CCTV cameras, medical clinics for students and 24X7 college libraries were among the promises made in the joint manifesto for the released on Saturday by the Left-wing AISA and AAP students’ wing, CYSS. Gopal Rai said that the AISA would contest the posts of president and vice-president of DUSU, while the CYSS would contest the joint secretary and secretary posts.
Releasing the manifesto, AAP leader Atishi Marlena said the main agenda of the two groups was to oppose "commercialisation" of higher education and to curb the use of "muscle and money power" in student politics. CYSS Delhi convenor Sumit Yadav added that the alliance would work towards “zero tolerance” towards violence on campus.
Violence on campus
Meanwhile, incidents of violence continue to be reported from the campus amid poll campaigning and preparations. AISA's DU wing president Kawalpreet Kaur alleged that she was attacked on the campus on Friday by some men who she suspected to be from ABVP, reported The Hindu. She added that ABVP and NSUI had created an “SUV culture” in DU that the AISA-CYSS combine would work to end if elected.
A member of the left-backed Students Federation of India (SFI) was also allegedly attacked by some members of NSUI at the north campus on Saturday. Akashdeep Tripathi, presidential candidate of SFI in the DUSU polls, had gone to file his nominations when the incident took place. “Around 10-12 SUV cars came to kidnap Akashdeep and stop him filing his nomination. He was brutally assaulted by them when he resisted,” claimed SFI state secretary Prashant Mukherjee. However, NSUI denied the charges. “No one from NSUI was present in that group. The SFI is falsely implicating NSUI,” said NSUI Delhi coordinator Akshay Lakra. Meanwhile, a police complaint was registered in the matter, according to a report by The Hindustan Times.
Former DUSU president was deemed ineligible for contesting again after Delhi HC found him guilty of furnishing false information
A month before his tenure as DUSU president came to an end, the Delhi High Court had upheld the disqualification of Rocky Tuseed’s candidature by the university, saying that he could not have contested the upcoming elections. The high court found that he had furnished false information in his affidavit to the poll panel at the time of nominations, making him ineligible.
“The issue raised in the petition goes to the root (of) whether the petitioner (Tuseed) could at all stand for election to the post of president. The answer to which is ‘No’,” Justice V Kameswar Rao had remarked as the court reserved its judgment in the case. The court noted that Tuseed did not disclose to DU authorities that an FIR was lodged against him in 2014 at Rajouri Garden police station for the alleged offences of causing hurt, attempt to murder, trespass and common intention, and that he had remained in judicial custody from 28 August to 15 September 2014 for a case in which a chargesheet was also filed.
Earlier, the High Court had allowed Tuseed to contest the election by setting aside DU’s chief election officer's directive. The court, however, had said that the outcome of the poll “will be subject to the outcome of the petition” filed by Tuseed. Tuseed had approached the court after the varsity’s poll panel rejected his nomination because of disciplinary action taken against him in 2014, according to The Indian Express's report.
Source:www.firstpost.com
Student unions shortlist candidates for DUSU polls
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Student unions shortlist candidates for DUSU polls
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New Delhi: As the election fever grips Delhi University, student unions are busy in preparing the candidate list. DUSU election is considered to be politically significant before the upcoming Lok Sabha election in 2019. Nomination papers will be filed and examined on Tuesday. Thereafter, the list of the candidates will be released. Moreover, the names can be withdrawn till September 5, the day the final list of a candidate will be released, said a source in the DU election member. According to the sources, ABVP has nominated Ankit Basoya for president, Sudhir Deedha for vice-president, Jyoti Chowdhary for secretary and Shakti Singh for joint secretary. All of them are MA students from Buddhist subjects. Apart from this, those in the panel of ABVP includes Jagat Tanwar's for the post of vice-president or secretary. Jagat is from Shri Arvindo College Evening is the first-year student in Hindi Honors course. Shakti Singh and Ravi Yadav are also students of Buddhist subjects for the post of joint secretary.
According to sources, the candidates have also been selected on caste basis in the panel. The CYSS-AISA alliance has not declared the names of their candidates till late evening. AISA's national president Sucheta Dey told that Kanwalpreet Kaur who is Delhi University's AISA president will oversee the party's DUSU election campaign. She said that names of Ritwik Raj, Mayank, Sunny Tanwar and Anusha Singh are the potential candidates for the post of president and vice president. No information was given about names from CYSS. NSUI is considering to field Akash Choudhary for president, Sunny Chillar for vice-president, Lina or Pragya Tomar for secretary and Manoj Tomar or Saurav Yadav for joint-secretary.
Source: millenniumpost
JNU Students Union poll on September 14
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JNU Students Union poll on September 14
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The annual election to the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union (JNUSU), will be held on 14 September 2018. The election schedule was released last Monday on 27 August. For the last two years, all four top posts in JNUSU have been held by a Left-alliance involving the Students Federation of India (SFI), All India Students Association (AISA) and Democratic Students Front (DSF).
Last year, Left candidates Geeta Kumari won the post of President, Simone Zoya Khan won the post of Vice President, Duggirala Srikrishna won as General Secretary and Shubhanshu Kumar won the post of Joint Secretary respectively.
The newly constituted electoral committee imposed a partial code of conduct while saying that no permission will be given. A member of the committee said, "There was a meeting with different students' organization on Monday night." Himanshu, who was elected the election commissioner for the JNUSU election, said that he will try, no one will violate the Code of Conduct in any manner in any election.
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