Voting for DUSU polls ends

The polling for four positions of Delhi University Students' Union (DUSU) ended on Thursday, amid allegations of EVM malfunctioning.

The results will be declared on Friday.

There were 16 candidates in the fray and 52 polling centres were set up. Over 1.3 lakh students were eligible to cast their vote.

Polling began in morning colleges at 9.30 am and ended at 1 pm. Polling in evening colleges commenced at 3 pm and ended at 7.30 pm.

The voter turnout recorded across 43 morning colleges was recorded at 39.69 per cent, almost four notches down from last year's figure of 43.8 per cent.

In the North Campus, almost 400 police personnel were deployed to prevent any untoward incident, police said.

Senior Congress leader J P Aggarwal also visited North Campus around 11.30 am to canvass for NSUI, the student wing of the party and interacted with young voters.

"#Dusu elections, campaigning in favour of #NSUI candidates at various colleges along with other #Congress member .. #Vote4NSUI #NSUI2311 @NSUIDelhi @nsui," he posted on Twitter.

Outside the colleges and booths, party workers were making last-minute efforts to woo voters and some were also engaging in verbal duel with opposition candidates.

Former DUSU office-bearers from ABVP and NSUI were seen walking through the North campus to gauge the mood of the voters.

Congress-affiliated National Students' Union of India (NSUI) claimed its joint secretary candidate Abhishek Chaprana was refused entry to polling booths in Dyal Singh College in South Delhi. The student outfit also claimed that Chaprana was "illegally detained".

The police said Chaprana was canvassing for votes outside the college which was not allowed. When he was asked not to do it, he "misbehaved" with policemen and had to be detained, they said.

The outfit also alleged that an EVM malfunctioned at a college.

Ruchi Gupta, NSUI national in-charge tweeted, "Again, in Aryabhatt college, EVM is malfunctioning as usual AGAINST NSUI. When ballot is pressed for NSUI candidate, EVM does not light up to indicate registration of vote. Our rep is getting more details. "