Red rules once again in JNU

The Jawaharlal Nehru University has just witnessed a red sweep with Left Unity, an alliance of the All India Students Association (AISA), Students Federation of India (SFI) and Democratic Students Federation (DSF), bagging all four central posts of president, vice president, general secretary, and joint secretary in the students’ union elections.

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Left Unity also bagged a majority of the councillors’ posts. The Left reclaimed its position in JNU, brushing aside the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, which had won one seat in the last election. The Left's convincing victory can be attributed to the fact that it fought on a united platform, unlike in the previous election. The victory of the Left is also a win for JNU’s longstanding tradition of dissent and student activism. The presidential debate, a hallowed convention in JNU, this year too was marked by lively discussions on a variety of subjects, including student issues, the Gaza conflict, the revocation of Article 370 in Kashmir, the Ladakh imbroglio and the incarceration of Sonam Wangchuk. The election outeome is a setback to the BJP’s students’ outfit, ABVP, which had been banking on cracks i