DUSU 2007

DUSU Poll HC dismisses petition on guidelines Tribune News Service
New Delhi, August 30The Delhi High court today refused to allow candidates having academic arrears to contest Delhi University students union elections.
Rejecting a petition filed by the Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad which had challenged incorporation of Supreme Court guidelines for the ongoing elections, a Bench comprising Chief Justice M K Sharma and Justice Sanjeev Khanna said, the directions of the Supreme Court are the rule of law and these have to be implemented.
INSO changes presidential candidate
The Delhi University administration has put student organisations in a state of crisis. After the final scrutiny of the nomination papers the DUSU election was conducted yesterday, almost all organisations have reshuffled their candidates. Indian National Students Organisation (INSO) has today decided to field Mohammad Ali Akhtar as their presidential candidate for the upcoming DUSU elections.
ABVP fields new candidates
There is much heat on DU campus, as the countdown for the DUSU elections begin. Pushed into a corner on the Lyngdoh Committee report, the ABVP fielded a fresh set of candidates today, as three of their nominations got cancelled, after the scrutiny results were announced yesterday.
The ABVP announced the names of its candidates contesting the DUSU polls in a press conference held in the Capital today. Abhishek Tandon, Suman Lata, Renu and Manvinder Singh will contest the students' union elections for the post of president, vice-president, secretary and joint secretary respectively.
Rajiv Ranjan from the ABVP informed, "We announced our fresh candidates today however, the protest still continues. Today, we protested at the arts faculty and, tomorrow there will be more protest on the campus. We have fielded fresh candidates to honour the court's decision. However, we believe that the administration's stand is unfair, as also the rejection of our earlier candidates."
Ranjan added that there was a possibility of the ABVP to go on a relay hunger strike, but a decision in that regard had not been taken yet. The situation at the university remained chaotic, with other parties hunting for new candidates to replace the rejected ones, as well as continuing with the campaigning.