DUSU Elections 2023: Delhi University to witness student body polls after four years

Around 500 security personnel, including police and paramilitary forces, will be deployed in the North Campus to provide security, according to various media reports. It will be the first time that current undergraduate current students at the university will get to vote in the Delhi University Students’ Union (DUSU) polls.

DUSU Election 2023: The University of Delhi is all set to witness enthralling student body elections all over again after a gap of four years. The varsity has a month of intense political campaigning and today students will cast their ballots for the student body elections. DUSU Elections were put on hold after 2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic situation.

Around 500 security personnel, including police and paramilitary forces, will be deployed in the North Campus to provide security, according to various media reports. It will be the first time that current undergraduate current students at the university will get to vote in the Delhi University Students’ Union (DUSU) polls.

24 candidates are in the fray for four posts — president, vice president, secretary, and joint secretary. Ballots will be counted on September 23. The ABVP has held the president’s post seven times over the past decade.

The past few weeks saw student outfits going to voters with several promises, including hostels for all, better infrastructure, affordable transport, and better placement services. However, allegations of violence and ruckus by outsiders on the campus overshadowed the poll promises.

At a press conference on Thursday, the RSS-affiliated Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) accused the Congress-backed National Students’ Union of India (NSUI) of “using lathi-wielding outsiders for the campaign, as it had no work to show for itself”.

In response, NSUI’s national president, Kanhaiya Kumar, said, “The ABVP is responsible for the violence but is blaming the NSUI for it. Students of DU know what is happening.”

In the run-up to the elections, both the ABVP and the NSUI released women-centric manifestos, promising the installation of sanitary pad vending machines, street lights, and CCTV cameras on the campus.

While the NSUI said it would introduce a policy allowing menstrual leave of up to 12 days per semester, the ABVP promised full-time gynaecologists and psychologists in the World University Service health centres.

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