An exercise was launched on Friday to remove all posters and banners put up by student organizations across the north campus of Delhi University for the DUSU election campaign.
The action comes a day after the Delhi High Court stopped counting of Delhi University Students’ Union (DUSU) election votes until all defacement material, including posters, hoardings and graffiti, is removed. , and public property is reestablished.
Speaking to PTI on the matter, Rajesh Singh, the returning officer of the elections, said: “Most of the hoardings, posters and banners violating the rules have been removed. The process to remove any other such posters is underway. “We called a meeting of all the candidates who participated in the elections and ordered them to remove these materials,” Singh said.
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Meanwhile, voting for DUSU polls is underway amid high security on Friday at the university’s north and south campuses.
Students who were on campus to cast their votes said the campus is much cleaner now than in previous days.
“The large banners and signs were removed almost completely overnight,” said one student, adding that roads that were once crowded and littered with oversized campaign signs now appear clean.
On Thursday, a bench comprising Chief Justice-designate Manmohan and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela said the electoral process can continue but counting of votes will not take place until the court is satisfied that Defacement of property has been removed.
The counting of votes was due to take place on Saturday.
Namrata Jeph Meena, NSUI candidate for the post of secretary, told PTI, “After the court order, we started cleaning the campus. It took double the effort to remove the posters and banners.”
“When placing the posters and banners, we pasted them wherever we found empty spaces. But when it came time to remove them, we had to look for our own posters and banners, which took us almost half the night,” he added.
With the polls underway, the atmosphere on campus is charged, with students showing a mix of excitement and nervous anticipation for the results.
Voting officially began at 8:50 a.m., with long queues of students eagerly waiting to cast their votes.
Around 1.40 lakh students are eligible to vote. A total of 21 candidates are competing for the positions: eight are competing for the position of president, five for the position of vice president and four for the positions of deputy secretary and four for each of the positions of assistant secretary.
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