DU orders strict action against rule breach, principals made ‘anti-defacement heads’

The Delhi College College students’ Union (DUSU) elections for 2025-26 are scheduled to be held on September 18 and votes can be counted the following day.

NEW DELHI: Delhi College has issued strict instructions to all faculty principals to stop defacement of property throughout the upcoming scholar union elections consistent with a Delhi Excessive Court docket order. In a round dated August 27, the college requested principals to behave as “anti-defacement heads” for his or her respective campuses and make sure that posters, banners, wall writings and hoardings aren’t permitted inside or round faculty premises.

The transfer follows a 2018 Excessive Court docket order, which was strengthened in 2024, mandating stringent measures in opposition to defacement of public and private property. The college has additionally constituted a College Committee for Prevention of Defacement of Property (UCPDP) to supervise compliance throughout all campuses.

The panel, notified on August 18, consists of Delhi College (DU) Property Officer Prof Bipin Kumar Tiwary because the vice chancellor’s nominee, senior school members, and Delhi Police, Delhi Metro Rail Company and municipal representatives.

Every faculty has been requested to represent a committee together with a senior school member and the station home officer of the native police station to observe poll-related actions.

The committees have been tasked with organising sensitisation workshops, creating “partitions of democracy” for posters, and coordinating with police and civic our bodies to test unauthorised marketing campaign materials.

The college has additionally directed that nomination types should have a written endeavor from candidates stating that they and their supporters won’t take pleasure in defacement and that any violation will entice attainable disqualification.

“These measures emphasise accountability and immediate motion. Steady vigilance is necessary to safeguard our shared areas and uphold the ideas of accountability and respect that outline our college group,” the round acknowledged.

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DUSU election 2025 on September 18

The Delhi College College students’ Union (DUSU) elections for 2025-26 are scheduled to be held on September 18 and votes can be counted the following day. Final 12 months, the Delhi Excessive Court docket withheld the counting of votes for the DUSU elections over the defacement of public property throughout the election marketing campaign.

It allowed the counting of votes to go forward solely after the defaced public properties had been cleaned up, saying its intention was to “reform, not punish”. In a notification issued on August 8, DU directed DUSU ballot candidates to submit a bond as a safety measure in opposition to property defacement throughout campaigning.

Apart from the bond rule, the rules mandate anti-defacement affidavits from college students on the time of admission to college, limiting marketing campaign posters to designated “partitions of democracy”, and prohibiting canvassing by means of rallies, roadshows, loudspeakers, or ‘shakti pradarshan’.

Candidates should use digital media for campaigning. Outsiders are barred from the campus throughout the elections until authorised, and biometric or facial recognition programs could also be put in for entry, based on the college.

DUSU office-bearers are allowed to e-book solely three particular college venues for official programmes and are prohibited from reserving college visitor homes or maintained hostels.