Left Sweeps All Four JNUSU Seats
It’s a clean sweep for the Left in the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union elections, with the alliance of the SFI, AISA and DSF winning all four seats.
The BJP-backed ABVP finished runners up in each of the races, with its presidential candidate Nidhi Tripathi claiming that the ABVP had clinched “the ideological, moral and numerical victory in the polls”. BAPSA was not far behind at third place.
The Left Alliance’s presidential candidate Geeta Kumari won by 464 votes, defeating the ABVP’s Nidhi Tripathi.
Kumari will replace Mohit Pandey, also from the Left, as the new JNUSU president. Asked about whether she expects as turbulent a tenure as her predecessor, Kumari replies:
Of course it will be as tough a run. The administration won’t discriminate between Mohit and me.
Counting continued well past midnight and the final results only came in around 3 am on Sunday, 10 September.
The Quint was live at JNU minutes before the final results were declared.
However, the ABVP claimed that they had “already won ideologically and morally, even before the election.”
We have not lost. ABVP has the majority on campus, it is the Left that is in minority. It is the strength of ABVP’s ideology that has forced so many Left student groups to make an alliance. The sole purpose of their alliance is to defeat the ABVPNidhi Tripathi, ABVP Presidential Candidate, to The Quint:
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Here Are the Final Results
For President:
- Geeta Kumari (Left Unity) - 1506
- Nidhi Tripathi (ABVP) - 1042
- Shabana Ali (BAPSA) - 935
For Vice President:
- Simon Zoya Khan (Left Unity) - 1876
- Durgesh Kumar (ABVP) - 1028
- Subodh Kunwer (BAPSA) - 910
For General Secretary:
- Duggirala Srikrishna (Left Unity) - 2082
- Nikunj Makwana (ABVP) - 975
- Karam Bidyanath Khuman (BAPSA) - 854
For Joint Secretary:
- Shubhanshu Singh (Left Unity) - 1755
- Pankaj Keshari (ABVP) - 920
- Vinod Kumar (BAPSA) - 862
2,381 Votes Are Counted, Left Alliance Leads in All Posts
As the evening progresses, it brings good news for the Left Alliance in the JNUSU polls, with their candidates leading in all four posts – President, Vice-President, General Secretary and Joint Secretary. This is where all the candidates stand.
For President, Geeta Kumari of the Left Alliance is leading with Nidhi Tripathi from ABVP and Shabana Ali from BAPSA trailing close behind. In the race for Vice-President, Simon Zoya Khan from the Left Alliance looks set to win, with Durgesh from ABVP coming second. For General Secretary and Joint Secretary, Duggirala Srikrishna, and Shubhansu Singh from the Left Alliance respectively, are leading.
After Counting 2,131 Votes, United Left Edges Over ABVP
The Left Alliance’s Geeta Kumari has received 580 votes, with ABVP’s Nidhi Tripathi trailing close behind with 544 votes, after counting of 2,131 votes, reported India Today.
For the vice president’s post, the ABVP candidate is in the lead, while the Left Alliance is leading the general secretary and joint secretary contest.