Delhi College is planning to introduce stricter measures to cease using “money and muscle power” within the college students union elections, after points on this 12 months’s polls led to a Delhi Excessive Court docket intervention.
Public property defaced throughout DUSU elections at North Campus. (Raj Ok Raj/HT File)
A committee on ballot reforms met on Tuesday to debate potential measures to curb repeated violations of election tips, which included overspending by candidates and in depth defacement of public property.
The committee additionally deliberated on reserving seats for ladies within the pupil union elections.
This 12 months, DU confronted criticism from the court docket for failing to implement Lyngdoh Committee tips and Nationwide Inexperienced Tribunal (NGT) guidelines.
Giant-scale graffiti and posters plastered throughout public areas and college partitions led to complaints, prompting the court docket to order the varsity to compensate civic companies for the cleanup prices.
The Municipal Company of Delhi (MCD) has since demanded a compensation of ₹1 crore, citing the in depth cleanup undertaken throughout its 12 zones.
“A significant concern mentioned within the assembly was the defacement of public property throughout elections, which drew the court docket’s directives,” stated a DU official on situation of anonymity.
“We are exploring reform measures to address these issues, but they are still in the deliberation stage and will require further meetings to establish clear policies,” the official added.
The Lyngdoh Committee tips, established to make sure honest and accountable conduct in pupil elections, restrict marketing campaign spending to ₹5,000 per candidate. Nonetheless, candidates are continuously seen flouting this rule with high-end vehicles, outsized banners, and costly promotional supplies, which undermine the rules’ objective.
This 12 months’s elections noticed DU campuses flooded with printed posters and banners, regardless of guidelines strictly prohibiting such supplies.
To deal with these points, DU plans to strengthen rule enforcement and is anticipated to current a report back to the court docket on November 11, when the court docket is slated to listen to the matter.
The DUSU election outcomes have been stalled for over a month now resulting from a court docket order requiring the defacement to be cleared earlier than the outcomes may be introduced. That is the primary time the outcomes have been delayed.
The elections have been held on September 27, and the outcomes have been initially scheduled to be launched on September 28.