Watch: Left Sweeps JNU Polls Amidst Formidable Rise of ABVP, BAPSA
The Quint speaks to victorious presidential candidate Geeta Kumari, on JNUSU’s top priorities for the coming year.
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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 on offer.
The BJP-backed ABVP finished runners-up in each of the races, but its presidential candidate Nidhi Tripathi claimed that the ABVP had clinched “the ideological, moral and even numerical victory in the polls”. BAPSA was not far behind at third place.
The Quint caught up with Geeta Kumari, JNUSU President-elect and asked her about whether she felt her term would be as ridden with altercations as her predecessor Mohit Pandey’s, also from the Left.
We spoke to ABVP’s Nidhi Tripathi as well, asking her to explain her claim that ‘the real victory’ was theirs and what that even meant.
Counting had continued well past midnight and the final results only came in around 3 am on Sunday, 10 September. Yet despite the late hour, hundreds of JNU students were present outside the counting centre when the overall tally was announced. Waving red and white flags in the air, supporters of the Left unity alliance erupted in celebrations, dancing to the beats of the dhol.
Read the full story here: JNU Painted Red Again, Yet ABVP Celebrates Its Own Defeat
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