left-affiliated Democratic Teachers’ Front (DTF) candidate Nandita Narain was re-elected as the president of Delhi University Teachers’ Association (DUTA) on Friday.
Narain, a mathematics professor at St Stephen’s college, won the presidential elections for the second consecutive term by a small margin of 225 votes.
The polling for the elections of office-bearers of teacher’s body was conducted on Thursday and a total of 6,068 votes were polled.
The counting concluded in wee hours of Sunday after it was disrupted for a while when the BJP-backed National Democratic Teachers’ Front (NDTF) and Academics for Action and Development and Indian National Teachers’ Congress alliance (AD-INTEC) alleged that invalid votes were being counted.
Narain, who has been a vocal critic of the implementation of semester system and the four-year undergraduate programme, and now of the Choice Based Credit System won the elections getting 2,390 votes.
She was closely followed by NDTF candidate V S Negi who polled 2165 votes. AD-INTEC candidate Sanjay Kumar polled 950 votes while there were 536 invalid votes.