Voting in DUCSU polls ends, all eyes on results

Voting in the long-awaited Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (DUCSU) election has ended largely without incident even as rival candidates traded allegations of electoral code violations. Polls closed at 4pm on Tuesday at the eight centres across the Dhaka University campus. Nearly 40,000 students were eligible to cast their ballots in the first such polls in six years, and the first since the July Uprising that reshaped national politics. Students queued in large numbers from early morning, with long lines stretching outside major centres. Many voters said they had prepared carefully for the election, describing how they had “done their homework” before making their choices. Each voter cast 41 votes -- 28 for central union posts and 13 for hall...