JNUSU Results: Left Secures 3 Key Posts, ABVP Wins One
New Delhi: Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union (JNUSU) election results are out early on Monday. In the fiercely contested polls, Left alliance of the All India Students’ Association and Democratic Students’ Front (AISA-DSF) won three seats, while the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) won one seat.
It was after close to a decade that the ABVP returned to the central panel of the university which had stood as a stronghold for the Left since 2016. As per the results, Nitish Kumar from AISA won the post of President securing 1,430 votes, Manisha from DSF got elected as Vice-President bagging 1,150 votes, Munteha Fatima from DSF won the post of General Secretary with 1,520 votes, and Vaibhav Meena from ABVP was elected Joint Secretary. Meena secured 1,518 votes.
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This year, the Left alliance split into two blocks and faced the election with All India Students’ Association (AISA) allying with Democratic Students’ Federation (DSF), and Students’ Federation of India (SFI) forming a Left-Ambedkarite panel with Birsa Ambedkar Phule Students Association (BAPSA), All India Students Federation (AISF) and Progressive Students Association (PSA).
Meanwhile, the ABVP contested the election independently. The ABVP termed the victory as a “historic shift” in JNU’s political landscape and as breaching the Left’s “red-fortress”.
“I am not at all considering this victory as my personal achievement or gain but it’s a massive and fascinating victory of tribal consciousness and the nationalist ideology which has been suppressed by the left in the varsity for years,” The Hindu quoted, ABVP’s newly-elect joint secretary Meena as saying.
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In the students union polls held on Friday (April 25), 5,500 of the 7,906 eligible students casted their votes. Twenty-nine candidates contested for the four central panel posts and 200 for the 44 councillor seats.
In the March 2024 polls, the United Left secured three of the four central panel posts while BAPSA, which had contested independently won one.
