DU poll panel to look into NSUI’s ‘rigging’ charge today

NEW DELHI: Delhi University poll panel’s grievance committee members will meet on Monday to discuss the National Students Union of India’s (NSUI) allegation of rigging

NEW DELHI: Delhi University poll panel’s grievance committee members will meet on Monday to discuss the National Students Union of India’s (NSUI) allegation of rigging during the Delhi University Students’ Union polls.

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The DUSU polls were held on Friday and the results declared on Saturday.

NSUI, the student wing of the Congress, has alleged that the Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) election results, was rigged. NSUI has also claimed that during voting in some colleges on Friday, there was problem with the electronic voting machines.

The party has demanded a re-election in Aurobindo College along with some other colleges.

NSUI has won the joint secretary position in DUSU. The other three posts were won by Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, the student wing of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).

Immediately after the results were declared on Saturday, NSUI party members had held a protest outside the vice chancellor’s office and started a hunger strike. However, the strike was called off after the grievance committee assured them of looking in to the issue.

“The grievance committee chairman has given to us in writing that a meeting will be held on Monday. If need be, we will even approach the Delhi High Court,” said Amrita Dhawan, NSUI’s national president.

‘DU STUDENTS ARE FRESH MINDED’

Union minister of state for home Kiren Rijiju on Sunday said the victory of ABVP candidates in DU was due to ‘fresh minded’ students who were insulated from a “discarded” ideology.

Rijiju also tweeted a picture of Hindustan Times headline, which said the Delhi University marches right and JNU goes left, and added: “Yes, bcause (sic) fresh minded DU students are insulated from getting romanticised by a faulty obsolete & discarded ideology.”