Counting resumes for DUSU polls, NSUI leads for prez post

September 13, 2018 19:13

Counting for the student union polls which was stopped midway on Thursday due to 'faulty EVMs' and the 'students' uproar over it' has been resumed, an university official said.

The counting was initially stopped for an hour when there were allegations of faulty EVMs, however, following objections by students the election officials decided to suspend the counting.

"After elaborate discussions it was decided that the counting will be resumed today. All candidates have reached an agreement on this," an election officer for DUSU polls said.

"We had proposed rectification of the faulty EVMs and resumption of the counting but the students were not ready for it. It was decided to suspend counting in the afternoon," he added.

In the initial trends, Congress-backed National Students' Union of India was leading for the president post, while Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh-affiliated Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad was leading for the vice president's post.

Amid heavy police presence and some last-minute wooing of voters, DUSU polls were held yesterday with a voter turnout of 44.46 per cent.

Polling took place at 52 centres in the colleges.

There are as many as 23 candidates in the fray. -- PTI

IMAGE: ABVP leaders forcibly come out of a room where the police had detained them following a protest in connection with DUSU elections, at counting station in DU, on Thursday. Photograph: PTI Photo

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