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    Home / News / India News / JNUSU Polls: United-Left defeats ABVP to win all 4 seats
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    JNUSU Polls: United-Left defeats ABVP to win all 4 seats

    JNUSU Polls: United-Left defeats ABVP to win all 4 seats
    Written by Ramya Patelkhana
    Sep 10, 2017, 01:55 pm 2 min read
    JNUSU Polls: United-Left defeats ABVP to win all 4 seats

    Making a clean sweep in the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union polls, the United Left Alliance defeated RSS-backed ABVP with considerable margins to retain all four seats. In the race for President, United Left's Geeta Kumari beat ABVP's Nidhi Tripathi by 464 votes while BAPSA's Shabana Ali with 935 votes finished third. Election officials said 4620 of the total 4639 votes polled were valid.

    SFI's Srikrishna records highest majority of 1107 votes

    For JNUSU Vice-President, Simone Zoya Khan of All India Students' Association with 1,876 votes defeated ABVP's Durgesh Kumar with 1028 votes. Duggirala Srikrishna of Students' Federation of India polled 2082 votes to become General Secretary, beating ABVP's Nikunj Makwana with 975 votes. Shubhanshu Singh of Democratic Students' Federation received 1755 votes to become Joint Secretary followed by ABVP's Pankaj Keshari with 920 votes.

    JNUSU President Geeta Kumari's statement

    Geeta Kumari of United Left Alliance, comprising AISA, SFI, and DSF, stated, "The credit for mandate goes to students because people still believe that democratic spaces should be saved and right now, the only resistance is from students."

    Counter the aggressive policies of ABVP: Duggirala

    JNUSU President Geeta Kumari promised to take up several issues, including student Najeeb Ahmad's disappearance, the university's seat cuts, new hostels, saving the autonomy of JS-cash, and deprivation points. Asserting JNU has become more democratic, General Secretary Duggirala said, "We promise to reach out to students everyday and counter the aggressive policies of ABVP." He vowed to defend JNU's debate and dissent culture.

    1512 NOTA votes polled

    Election officials stated as many as 1512 NOTA (none of the above) votes were polled for all four JNUSU central panel posts of President, Vice-President, General Secretary and Joint Secretary. Also, a total of 31 councilors were elected for various other posts.

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