In the polls that took place after a hiatus of four years, Dhananjay from the All India Students’ Association (AISA) won the JNUSU president’s post by securing 2,598 votes against the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad’s (ABVP) Umesh C Ajmeera, who secured 1,676 votes.
New Delhi: Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union (JNUSU) Election results 2024 have been declared. For the first time in history, the Birsa Ambedkar Phule Students’ Association (BAPSA) secured a position in the Central Panel of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Student Union (JNUSU). The JNUSU results were declared late night on Sunday effecting a clean sweep of the United Left alliance on three seats of the Central Panel with one post of the four-member panel bagged by BAPSA.
Priyanshi Arya, BAPSA’s candidate wins General Secretary post
For the post of General Secretary, Priyanshi Arya, BAPSA’s candidate, emerged victorious in the student union elections by defeating ABVP’s Arjun Anand by 926 votes. Arya polled 2,887 votes while Anand received 1,961 votes, news agency PTI reported. Birsa Ambedkar Phule Students’ Association (BAPSA) is an Ambedkarite students’ organisation formed on November 15, 2014, at the Jawaharlal Nehru University on Birsa Munda’s birth anniversary. Ever since the inception of JNUSU elections, BAPSA has never been able to secure a position in the Central Panel of JNUSU. The central panel constitutes the posts of President, Vice President, Joint Secretary, and General Secretary. However, the association has consistently won counsellor positions.
Dhananjay from the All India Students’ Association (AISA) Wins the JNUSU president’s post
Dhananjay from the All India Students’ Association (AISA) won the JNUSU president’s post by securing 2,598 votes against the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad’s (ABVP) Umesh C Ajmeera, who secured 1,676 votes. Sharing a post on X, AISA wrote, “Red salute to the newly elected OB of JNUSU.”
Red salute to the newly elected OB of JNUSU.#JNUSU_इलेक्शन #JNUSUElection2024 pic.twitter.com/TsNHKEqoMD
— AISA (@AISA_tweets) March 24, 2024
JNUSU ELECTIONS
CENTRAL PANEL
Final count
After 5656 counted ballots
President :
Dhananjay ( AISA- United Left)- 2598 (Won)
Abhijeet Kumar (INDP)- 58
Afroz Alam (CRJD)- 36
Aradhana Yadav (SCS)- 245
Biswajit Minji (BAPSA)- 398
United left won by 922 votes.
Vice President:
Avijit Ghosh ( SFI – United Left)-2409 (Won)
Deepika Sharma (ABVP)- 1482
Mohamed Anas (BAPSA)- 611
United left won by 927 votes.
General Secretary
Arjun Anand (ABVP) – 1961
Priyanshi Arya – 2887 (Won)
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
United left won by 508 votes.
Despite its active involvement in JNUSU’s activities and a substantial voter base, BAPSA had struggled to secure a seat in the central panel until now. The students union garnered the third-highest number of votes in the JNUSU elections, trailing behind the United Left Alliance and the ABVP.
The turning point came when the nomination of DSF President Swati Singh, slated to be the general secretary candidate of the United Left Alliance, was revoked following a complaint to the Grievance Redressal Committee. Subsequently, the Left alliance reconfigured its strategy and threw its support behind BAPSA’s general secretary candidate, Priyanshi Arya. This last-minute shift saw Priyanshi Arya secure victory with an overwhelming support from the alliance. However, following the elections, BAPSA opted to distance itself from the alliance, expressing its intention to contest future elections independently.
The last JNUSU polls held in 2019 were swept by Left-backed groups which comprised AISA, SFI, DFS, and AISF. In the 2019 polls, the united front of Left student organisations SFI, AISA, AISF, and DSF swept the JNU Students’ Union (JNUSU) polls, with Aishe Ghosh elected as president, defeating arch-rival RSS-affiliated Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad.
(With PTI Inputs)