(i) Elections shall be by secret ballot on a date determined in the calendar approved by the University.
Election shall be held by the Teacher-in-Charge according to the programme announced by the Vice Chancellor.
The Teacher-in-Charge, shall notify 3 days in advance the date of election of office bearers of the Societies and Class representatives, the time for filling nomination papers, time for scrutiny of nominations, hour for the withdrawal of nomination, the duration of the poll, time and place for the counting of votes.
8 The result of the election shall be declared by the Teacher-in-charge immediately after the counting of votes.
The office bearers of Societies shall take oath in the prescribed proforma within 7 days from the declaration of the results.
If a student elected to an office does not take oath within the prescribed period the right to the office shall cease and the office shall be deemed to be vacant.
If in the opinion of the patron, exigencies exist and a recommendation to postpone the elections is forwarded to the Kulpati, he may suitably postpone the dates of the elections.
The elections of office bearers of the Societies/Students' Council shall be held on the date as prescribed in the calendar approved by the University.
Elections for the class representative shall be held on the very next day (or the following day in case of a holiday) after the election of the Societies.
The election for the office bearers of the Students' Council shall be held right after the election for the class representatives within two hours of the declaration of the result of the representative of the last class.
Opportunity shall be given by the Teacher-in-charge to every candidate for any office of the Students' Council/Society or class representative to speak about his/her plan and programmes which he/she intends to implement in case of his/her election to the office for which he/she is a candidate, before the voting takes place. No candidate will be allowed to display posters/handouts/wall writings any where in the college campus or outside.
A student shall not be eligible to contest the election or to be nominated to any office of the Council/Society of the College if he/she falls in any of the categories listed below :
has passed 10+2 Examination earlier than five years (earlier than six years for post graduate courses) before the commencement of the academic session in which the election is held or has taken more than the prescribed minimum period of time for whatever reason for the course of which he is a student.
has failed to pay the tuition and other fees due.
has been convicted by a court of law for any offence or against whom charges have been framed and the proceedings are in progress.
9 has been punished for use of unfair means at any examination or against whom proceedings are pending.
is in employment while studying in the college.
(0 has passed the last University examination in more than the minimum period required.
has not submitted and got audited the accounts of any advance out standing against him.
has been punished or a disciplinary action is pending against him in the institution.
joins any equivalent course after having failed in one or having left one incomplete.
has been provisionally admitted.
(k) has passed any yearly examination of any degree through supplementary examination or has carried forwarded any subject/or has backlogged any subject of any semester as the case may be.
(1) has been expelled from the hostel.
No person shall hold the same office more than once during has/her academic career in the College.
A candidate seeking election shall be nominated by a prosper and a seconder who are eligible voters.
Only an elected or nominated member of Students' Council can seek election to any one of the following :
I. President, 2. Vice- President, 3. Secretary, 4. Joint-Secretary
Provided that only those students can contest for the post of President of the Students' Council, who have been the regular students of the college for one year immediately before the present academic session or he/she is the student of the post graduate degree course.
Provided also that any student shall be eligible to contest election for the post of Class Representative once during the under graduate education and one during post graduate degree.
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(xvi) For the election of the office bearers of the Students' Council/Society nomination paper shall be filed to the Teacher-in-charge in the meeting of the Students' Council/Society called for the purpose. The proposer and the seconder shall be the members of the Students' Council/Society. Scrutiny of nomination papers, the withdrawal and the voting, where necessary shall take place in the same convened meeting and the results shall be announced after the counting of votes right after the election.
(xvii) All the nominations shall be made in the prescribed form and the nomination paper shall be declared invalid if:
the nomination paper was received after the prescribed last date and time.
The nomination is not in the prescribed form.
The nomination is in any way incomplete.
The candidate is disqualified to seek election under the provisions of this ordinance.
Once the nomination is submitted by the candidate and received by the Teacher-in-charge, no addition or alterations shall be permitted.
(xviii) (a) If in an electoral constituency all the nominations are found invalid or no nomination paper is filed, the patron shall nominate a student/students not disqualified under sub para (xii) of para 19, from amongst the voters concerned to fill the seat remaining vacant due to the invalidation or for want of nomination.
If the number of validly nominated candidates is less than or equal to the number to be elected, all such nominated persons shall be declared elected and the vacancy therafter, if any, shall be filled up by Patron by nomination as in (a) above.
If the number of validly nominated candidates, after all the withdrawals of candidature, is greater than the number of members to be elected, voting shall take place. The candidate/candidates, as the case may be, getting the highest number of votes shall be declared elected.
the voting shall be by secret ballot.
(f) In case of equal votes, decision shall be taken by drawing a lot by the Teacher-in-charge.
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(xix) In the matter of elections every student shall abide by the following code of conduct:
no attempt shall be made at character assassination.
Indecent expression and words shall not be used during the course of election campaign.
None shall be run down on the ground of caste, creed or religion.
Neither posters shall be displayed nor shall disfigurement of the walls be made.
In course of the election no one shall be intimidated or subjected to physical violence nor shall the discipline of the institution be undermined.
Elections shall be fought on individual basis.
(g) No outsider shall be admitted to the college campus and admission will be on the basis of student identity card.
(xx) Where a candidate fails to observe the code of conduct or instigates or supports breach of the code of conduct as given above, the Teacher-incharge may declare his/her election invalid.
(xxi) A ballot paper shall be rejected if:
it bears any mark or writing by which the vote can be identified, or it bears no mark to indicate the vote or bears a mark other than the mark of the prescribed seal placed for the purpose, or a mark of the seal indicating the vote is placed in such a manner as to make it doubtful as to which candidate the vote has been given, or a vote has given more votes than the number of seats to be filled or a ballot paper is signed by the voter.
Provided that where there is an uncertainty in respect of any vote/votes but not in respect of all the votes given by the voter the ballot paper shall be invalid to the extent of the uncertainty.