To show their might in the students’ union election scheduled for September 2, ABVP candidate Rahul Kumar, Satyam Group candidate Kapil Sharma, Pattu Group candidate Jatin Gupta and other candidates took out rallies on the campus on Tuesday.

Thousands of students participated in the rallies of the ABVP, Satyam and Pattu groups. Inviting outsiders in rallies organised by students’ associations in the DAV (PG) College campus is a clear violation of lyngdoh committee’s recommendations on students’ union election. College principal and other election officers were watching this violation of lyngdoh Committee’s recommendations.

Meanwhile, Dehradun SSP Dr Sadanand Date and SP City Ajay Singh reached the college and reviewed security arrangements along with college election officers. SSP Date directed the police officers to take all possible measures to complete the rallies of this election peacefully. No one will be allowed to take law in their hands, he warned. Date said that additional forces have been deployed in the campus and at around college area to maintain peace in the ongoing election in DAV (PG) College. Police officers have been directed to ensure that commuters using DAV (PG) College road, do not face any inconvenience due to traffic jams. Adequate cops were witnessed following the rally at outside the college and inside college campus.

To show its strength and woo the voters, supporters of various students groups carried out rally by making rounds of the campus and raising slogans in the favour of their union and its candidate. The involvement of outside the rally of various students’ groups within the college campus cannot be ruled out which is blatant violation of lyngdoh Committee Recommendation. Though, college election officer claims that lyngdoh Committee Recommendation will be implemented during election strictly, they have not worked on the ground to prevent the outsider in the campus.

At College, supporters burst crackers and entered the college campus, dancing to drum beats.

 Some of them carried balloons during rally. Students’ groups had used all possible means to invite maximum youth in their rally no matter whether they had enrolled in the college.

Students groups seem to be spent lakhs of rupees for arranging food and buses for their supporters who were belonging to various parts of the state.

Sources said that to attend the rallies, supporters of various students’ groups come from various districts through various modes of transportation.

There are reasons to believe that some outsiders had participated in the rally again in violation of the norms envisaged by lyngdoh.

The college teaching staff members were witnessed busy in collecting stick from the supporters in which they had used it with union flag. The election officers and police remained mute spectators.

The officers seemed more interested in having the rally peacefully completed rather than in stopping the students from violating the lyngdoh Committee Recommendation.