The LEFT ALLIANCE or the “Left-Unity” has swept all four seats in the JNU students union election, defeating the BJP student wing ABVP with huge margins.
Celebrations broke out in the campus soon as the results were announced. Students started dancing to the beats of traditional daflis with gulal smeared over their faces amid chants of “azaadi”.
Kanhaiya, who had an eventful tenure as the JNUSU president, congratulated his successor.
“Mohit Pandey of Left-Unity alliance has been elected as the JNUSU president, defeating Rahul Sonpimple of BAPSA by a margin of 409 votes.
“Amal Pipli, Satapurta Chakraborty and Tabez Hussain have emerged victorious on the posts of Vice President, General Secretary and Joint Secretary, respectively,” said Ishita Mana, the Chief Election Commissioner for JNUSU polls.
Students Front for Swaraj (SFS), the student wing of AAP’s breakaway group Swaraj Abhiyan, made its debut this year by fielding its candidates for the four crucial central panel posts in the varsity but failed to open its account. Other organisations which had fielded their candidates in the JNU polls include Congress’ National Students Union of India and Democratic Students Federation (DSF), a breakaway group of SFI.
DSF’s Joint Secretary candidate Pratim Ghoshal gave a tough fight to Left-Unity’s Tabrez Hasan but lost the election a margin of 362 votes. While Tabrez got 1,670 votes, a total of 1,308 voters chose Pratim. A total of 1,140 students exercised the None of The Above (NOTA) option.
Satapurta Chakrabaorty, the only girl in the newly elected panel, polled 2,424 votes, defeating Vijay Kumar by a margin of 1,094 votes for the post of General Secretary. Amal PP won the Vice Presidential post with the highest margin of 1,304 votes, defeating Ravi Ranjan Choudhary.
Kanhaiya Kumar “The nation wants to know..” What happened to #ABVP in #JNUSUPolls? #ShutDownJNU became #ShutDownABVP #RIPABVP
Polling for the election to the JNU Students Union was held on Friday, and saw a 59.6 per cent turnout, a significant 6 per cent more than last year. JNU has an electorate of about 8,600.
18 candidates are testing their electoral fortunes for the Central Panel, and 79 are in fray for the post of councillors
This year’s JNUSU election has been closely watched, as it comes in the wake of massive controversy surrounding the arrests of Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya.
Dipankar #ThankYouJNU for shutting down the shops that wanted to shut down JNU and for giving a decisive mandate to the AISA-SFI united Left panel.
ABVP bags three top posts at DUSU polls
New Delhi
The BJP- Student wing ABVP won three top posts of the Delhi University Students Union (DUSU), result of which was announced today.
Vidyarthi Parishad’s Amit Tanwar, Priyanka Chabri and Ankit Sangwan were elected DUSU President, Vice President and Secretary respectively.
The Congress-Student wing National Students Union of India (NSUI) could get only one seat. Akhil Bharatiya Mohit Sangwan of the NSUI won the Joint Secretary post.