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1 week, 5 days ago

Slogans calling for violence against Hindus raised at BAPSA protests

Op India

Hateful slogans targeting different sections of the Hindu society were raised during recent protests held by Birsa Ambedkar Phule Students Association, a “student” organisation at the Jawaharlal Nehru University. Videos of the protests have gone viral online, showing demonstrators, including JNUSU General Secretary Priyanshi Arya, chanting slogans against Brahmins, Baniyas, and Kshatriyas—prominent Hindu castes. She's the JNU Student Union General …

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1 year ago

First Dalit president in 27 years and first-ever BAPSA nominee in JNUSU

The Hindu

A day after Holi, the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus was soaked in hues of red and blue as flags of winning student outfits fluttered on the campus. United Left Panel candidate Dhananjay was declared the winner of the president’s post in the student body poll results that were announced on Sunday. Ms. Arya’s victory marks the first time that BAPSA, …

Dalit Campus Jnu Jnusu Students Union Bapsa

1 year ago

JNUSU Election Result: BAPSA secures historic Central Panel seat with Left's support

Hindustan Times

The Birsa Ambedkar Phule Students' Association clinched a position in the Central Panel of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Student Union for the first time in its history. BAPSA secures Central Panel seat in JNUSU Priyanshi Arya, BAPSA's general secretary candidate, emerged victorious in the student union elections by defeating ABVP's Arjun Anand by 926 votes. The JNUSU results were declared …

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1 year ago

JNU students’ union elections | Left candidates trounce ABVP

The Hindu

Sloganeering accompanied with dafli and dhol, reached a crescendo on the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus as the counting for the students’ union election progressed on Sunday. Around 11.30 p.m, the election committee declared that the United Left panel won three posts of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union, while the Birsa Ambedkar Phule Students’ Association won one post. General secretary …

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1 year ago

Hours before JNU student body poll, Left candidate disqualifed

The Hindu

Over 5,600 students of Jawaharlal Nehru University voted in the student body polls on Friday morning, amid an election buzz that gripped the campus after a hiatus of four years. Meanwhile, seven hours before polling was scheduled to begin, the United Left Panel general secretary candidate Swati Singh received a notice from the Election Committee cancelling her nomination, days after …

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5 years, 6 months ago

JNUSU elections ballot counting completed: Left Unity on verge of winning, poll results after Sept 17

India Today

The Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union election committee completed the counting of ballots at 9 pm on Sunday. The Delhi High Court on Friday restricted the varsity from notifying the student election results till September 17 The election committee had decided to go ahead with the counting but it was decided that the trends for the last 150 votes for …

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5 years, 6 months ago

JNUSU elections: Over 5,000 students vote, highest poll percentage in 7 years

Hindustan Times

Amid cheers and slogans, students voted in large numbers on Friday to take the polling percentage in the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union election to 67.9%, a shade higher than last year’s turnout of 67.8%. Supporters of a candidate shout slogans during voting day of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union elections at the university campus in New Delhi, India, …

Students Election Vote Poll Polling Left Jnu

5 years, 6 months ago

From speeches, clashes, lal salaam to Vande Mataram, JNU student union debate sees it all

India Today

Amid slogans of Lal Salaam, Vande Mataram, some booing and a minor clash, the presidential debate was held at the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus late Wednesday ahead of the students' union polls on September 6. Congress-affiliated National Students' Union of India candidate Prashant Kumar condemned Jangid for referring to the sedition row and said the matter is "sub-judice". Suna said …

Student Kashmir Candidate Left Jnu Vande Mataram Bapsa

5 years, 6 months ago

JNUSU election presidential candidate Jitendra Suna is at vanguard of battle against oppression in India

Firstpost

The story of Jitendra Suna, who is contesting as a presidential candidate in the 2019 JNUSU election is an attractive story for the media, particularly since he comes from an ‘untouchable’ caste The story of Jitendra Suna, who is contesting as a presidential candidate in the 2019 JNUSU election is an attractive story for the media, particularly since he comes …

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5 years, 6 months ago

Firstpost Editor's Picks: Final NRC list in Assam, fall in GDP growth rate, English Premier League 2019; today's must-read stories

Firstpost

Final NRC list published in Assam: As Sarbananda Sonowal tries to quell panic, document draws criticism across political lines Although there is no political or legal consensus on the path ahead for the 19 lakh people who do not find their names in the final National Registry of Citizens, Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal released a statement in the late …

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7 years, 5 months ago

Saffron setback

The Hindu

THE campus was tense. Since the Bharatiya Janata Party came to power at the Centre, the ABVP, its students’ wing, has gained prominence on campuses across India through communal polarisation and violent tactics. In Gauhati University, the ABVP managed to win only two seats in the Post-Graduate Students’ Union election. While the ABVP bagged the second position on all the …

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7 years, 6 months ago

JNUSU Elections 2017: Left retains citadel but without unity it could crumble under ABVP, BAPSA onslaught

Firstpost

JNUSU elections were once again swept by the Left Unity panel comprising AISA-SFI-DSF. Out of 4,620 votes polled for the president’s post, AISA’s Geeta Kumari secured 1,506 votes, leaving behind Nidhi Tripathi of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad by almost 460 votes. SFI’s Duggirala Srikrishna got a massive 2,082 votes to be elected as the general secretary, grabbing the highest number …

Students School Unity Party Votes Vote Muslim

7 years, 6 months ago

JNUSU polls: ABVP union terms loss a moral victory as student's union emerges second in terms of vote share

Firstpost

The Left alliance may have swept the JNUSU polls, but rivals like the RSS-affiliated ABVP and the Birsa Ambedkar Phule Students’ Association say they have made inroads into its vote share. New Delhi: The Left alliance may have swept the JNUSU polls, but rivals like the RSS-affiliated ABVP and the Birsa Ambedkar Phule Students’ Association say they have made inroads …

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7 years, 6 months ago

JNUSU Elections 2017: Left rejoices on Twitter as Communists retain their dominance in stronghold

Firstpost

With the results, leftist groups maintained their hegemony intact in the JNUSU, known to be a bastion of communist parties. The United Left alliance on Sunday bagged all four positions in the JNU students’ union, while the Akhil Bharatiya Vidhyarthi Parishad and Birsa Ambedkar Phule Students’ Association stood second and third respectively. Saket Bahuguna, the ABVP’s national media convener, said …

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7 years, 6 months ago

JNUSU election: Improving campus facilities rule all manifestos; ABVP adds check on anti-national activities

Firstpost

With the JNUSU election right around the corner, we analyse the big four — Left Unity, ABVP, BAPSA and NSUI — on the basis of their pre-election promises The Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union election is one of the high profile democratic practices in the country composed of intense debate on national and international issues and larger than life political …

Students Political Election Union Campus Left Issues

7 years, 6 months ago

JNU Students' Union Election 2017: Differently-abled candidate Farooque Alam shines in presidential debate

Firstpost

Students of JNU got the first taste of candidates’ policies during the presidential debate amid thundering applause and boos with a disabled independent candidate stealing show New Delhi: Students of Jawaharlal Nehru University got the first taste of the candidates’ policies during the presidential debate amid thundering applause and boos with a disabled independent candidate stealing the show. “To organise …

Students Student Campus Candidate Left Presidential Debate Abvp

7 years, 6 months ago

JNUSU elections highlight widening gap between public opinion and political discourse on campus

Firstpost

This year’s JNUSU elections, while marked by a lot of hype and news coverage, betray a stark lack of policy ideas and substantive debate among students. This year’s student body elections in Jawaharlal Nehru University, while marked by a lot of hype and news coverage, betray a stark lack of policy ideas and substantive debate among students and student groups. …

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7 years, 6 months ago

JNUSU elections 2017: Dissecting 'Left unity' and the politics of minority exclusion on campus

Firstpost

At the Jawaharlal Nehru University, September, particularly its first week, is an important period. This Left unity, however, excludes former JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar’s All India Student Federation, and CPI’s students’ wing, which is fielding a presidential candidate after a break of a year. This to say that freshers in the campus are being asked to vote for “Left unity”, …

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7 years, 10 months ago

JNU and the politics of alienation: On AISA that failed a Muslim comrade

Firstpost

I was born and raised in the adjacent districts of Patna and Jehanabad in Magadh region where Muslims are a small minority. Partly because of the negligible Muslim presence there, many rumours and prejudices against Muslims were propagated and taken as truth by many ill-informed Hindu students, as there were no Muslims to debunk them. Most of these prejudices against …

India Islam Dalit Party Campus Muslims Muslim

8 years, 6 months ago

The latest victory of Left in JNU polls also reveals their biggest weakness

Op India

As yet another election in the Republic of JNU concludes with a huge victory for the Communists, the ‘right’ can continue with the air of arrogance and downplay these developments as “light entertainment”. Now considering the fact that the extreme leftists make up a vanishingly small percentage of the overall Indian population, the chances of JNU students every year coming …

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8 years, 6 months ago

Fissured ground after a flood: JNU Students Union election results and their implications

Firstpost

The Left Alliance of AISA-SFI won all the Central Panel seats in JNU. The alliance bagged 1800 votes on average, the total lower than the usual 900 that the SFI used to get and the 1200 AISA got till two years back. The ABVP got the 1000 central panel level votes it always gets — even as it got completely …

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8 years, 6 months ago

Thwarted: Opinion poll at JNU

ABP News

New Delhi: An attempt to conduct a rare opinion poll at JNU ahead of this week's student union elections has been blocked by the university's election committee, made up of students. Former JNU students' union president Mona Das, who now teaches political science at Delhi University, burst into giggles when she heard about the attempt to conduct the opinion poll. …

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Slogans calling for violence against Hindus raised at BAPSA protests

First Dalit president in 27 years and first-ever BAPSA nominee in JNUSU

JNUSU Election Result: BAPSA secures historic Central Panel seat with Left's support

JNU students’ union elections | Left candidates trounce ABVP

Hours before JNU student body poll, Left candidate disqualifed

JNUSU elections ballot counting completed: Left Unity on verge of winning, poll results after Sept 17

JNUSU elections: Over 5,000 students vote, highest poll percentage in 7 years

From speeches, clashes, lal salaam to Vande Mataram, JNU student union debate sees it all

JNUSU election presidential candidate Jitendra Suna is at vanguard of battle against oppression in India

Firstpost Editor's Picks: Final NRC list in Assam, fall in GDP growth rate, English Premier League 2019; today's must-read stories

Saffron setback

JNUSU Elections 2017: Left retains citadel but without unity it could crumble under ABVP, BAPSA onslaught

JNUSU polls: ABVP union terms loss a moral victory as student's union emerges second in terms of vote share

JNUSU Elections 2017: Left rejoices on Twitter as Communists retain their dominance in stronghold

JNUSU election: Improving campus facilities rule all manifestos; ABVP adds check on anti-national activities

JNU Students' Union Election 2017: Differently-abled candidate Farooque Alam shines in presidential debate

JNUSU elections highlight widening gap between public opinion and political discourse on campus

JNUSU elections 2017: Dissecting 'Left unity' and the politics of minority exclusion on campus

JNU and the politics of alienation: On AISA that failed a Muslim comrade

The latest victory of Left in JNU polls also reveals their biggest weakness

Fissured ground after a flood: JNU Students Union election results and their implications

Thwarted: Opinion poll at JNU