The Left Unity coalition secured a clean sweep in the student union elections held at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), claiming victory on all four central panel seats – president, vice president, general secretary, and joint secretary.
JNUSU Election 2024: The student union elections were held in the JNU after a gap of four years. The campus resonated with slogans throughout Friday even as a section of the students alleged that the polling process was delayed by two hours.
United Front of Left student groups comprising AISA, SFI, AISF and DSF won all four central panel posts in JNU Students' Union polls on Tuesday. SFI's Aishe Ghosh has been elected as Jawahar Lal Nehru University Student Union president, defeating ABVP's Manish Jangid, who got 1,128 votes. Ghosh bagged 2,313 votes.
According to latest reports, six Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) leaders have been injured in the clashes and have been admitted to AIIMS.
As per the latest data released by the election committee, after counting 3,281 out of 5185 votes, N Sai Balaji, presidential candidate of the Left is leading with 1,350 votes.
The counting of votes in the JNU student union polls was suspended for nearly 14 hours on Saturday by election authorities citing 'forcible entry' and 'attempts to snatch away ballot boxes' at the counting venue.
The Left outfits alleged that ABVP activists were involved in the violence but the saffron outfit denied it.
All arrangements were made by the election authorities for the JNUSU polls, which were closely watched in the aftermath of various controversies that rocked the universities across the country in the recent past.
New Delhi: The election committee of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) declared the final list of candidates for various posts of students' union polls slated for September 12.While seven candidates from major students' organisations are in
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