JNUSU Election Results: Left, BAPSA Student Groups Decimate RSS' ABVP

As the counting is completed for the Jawaharlal Nehru Students Union (JNUSU) elections2024, the Left alliance in the campus has swept the central panel of president, vice president, general secretary and joint secretary. RSS’ student-wing ABVP has been decimated in the campus, which is in the centre of both the national capital and the political discourse in the country. AISA’s Dhananjay won the president’s post while SFI candidate Avijit Ghosh has bagged the vice president post. Priyanshi Arya, supported by both the Left alliance and BAPSA, has been elected as the general secretary. Mo Sajid from AISF won the joint secretary post.

All the winning candidates defeated ABVP members who came in the second position. According to reports, the Left alliance have also managed to win significant number of councilor posts in various schools in the campus, which is historically a Left dominated university in the country when it comes to students” politics.

Dipankar Bhattacharya, the general secretary of CPI (ML), the party which is associated with the main constituent in the Left alliance, AISA, applauded the student community for the mandate.

“A big applause to JNU students for rebuffing the violent vandal brigade and giving a renewed mandate to AISA – All India Students” Association and the united Left panel. The Left panel candidate”s nomination had got cancelled on GS post and the Left panel showed great political maturity and largeheartedness to support the BAPSA candidate as GS. Kudos to Comrade Dhananjay and other winners of the Left panel and BAPSA,” the wrote on a social media post.

Final JNUSU results 2024: Central Panel

After counting 5656 ballots –

President
Abhijeet Kumar (INDP)- 58

Afroz Alam (CRJD)- 36
Aradhana Yadav (SCS)- 245
Biswajit Minji (BAPSA)- 398
Dhananjay ( AISA- United Left)- 2598 – Won
Junaid Raza (NSUI)- 383
Sarthak Nayak (DISHA)- 113
Umesh Chandra Ajmeera (ABVP)- 1676
NOTA – 148
Blank : 32
Invalid: 7

United Left won by 922 votes.

Vice President

Ankur Rai (INDP)- 814
Avijit Ghosh ( SFI – United Left)-2409 – won
Deepika Sharma (ABVP)- 1482
Mohamed Anas (BAPSA)-  611
NOTA – 227
Blank : 69
Invalid: 44

United Left won by 927 votes.

General Secretary

Arjun Anand (ABVP) – 1961
Fareen Zaidi (NSUI) – 436
Priyanshi Arya (BAPSA, United Left Supported) – 2887 – won
NOTA – 197
Blank : 85
Invalid: 90

United Left supported Bapsa candidate won by 926 votes.

Joint Secretary

Govind Dangi (ABVP) – 2066
Mo Sajid ( AISF – United Left) – 2574 – won
Rupak Kumar Singh (BAPSA) – 539
NOTA – 353
Blank : 83
Invalid: 41

United Left won by 508 votes.