In Photos: DUSU polls underway across DU campuses amid heightened security

Voting for president, vice president, secretary and joint secretary is being held in two shifts amid heightened security across Delhi University, as candidates and their supporters make a final push to win over students (Source: Photo by Praveen Khanna)

Candidates and their supporters distributed pamphlets and displayed placards, urging students to vote for their candidates in the ongoing DUSU elections for four central panel positions and college representatives (Source: Photo by Praveen Khanna)

Police have erected barricades outside colleges and are frisking students to avoid any untoward incident (Source: Photo by Praveen Khanna)

The outcome of the polls for candidates from ABVP, NSUI and the AISA-SFI alliance will be known on Saturday (Source: Photo by Praveen Khanna)

A university official said more than 2,000 police and paramilitary personnel have been deployed across the North and South campuses (Source: Photo by Praveen Khanna)

Affordable, safe accommodation emerged as a key demand among students, along with functioning college hostels, affordable food and transport, concessions on Delhi Metro fares, and a more accessible university administration (Source: Photo by Praveen Khanna)

A total of 1,000 electronic voting machines (EVMs) have been deployed for the elections. Of these, 960 will be used for polling, while 40 have been kept in reserve, according to university officials (Source: Photo by Praveen Khanna)

Chief Election Officer Raj Kishore Sharma said 12 control rooms would remain operational during polling and technical experts would be available to address any malfunction (Source: Photo by Praveen Khanna)

"Once polling concludes, the EVMs will be securely transported by police to the Multipurpose Hall of the University Sports Stadium in North Campus. The machines will be opened at the time of counting on Saturday," Sharma said (Source: Photo by Praveen Khanna)