All Jharkhand Students Union

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All Jharkhand Students Union
President Sudesh Mahto
Lok Sabha  Leader Chandra Prakash Choudhary
Founder Nirmal Mahato,
Surya Singh Besra
Founded22 June 1986(39 years ago) (1986-06-22)
HeadquartersHarmu Road Ranchi- 834001, Jharkhand [1]
Ideology Regionalism
ECI StatusState Party [2]
Alliance NDA (2014–present) [3]
Seats in  Lok Sabha
1 / 543
Seats in  Rajya Sabha
0 / 245
Seats in  Jharkhand Legislative Assembly
1 / 81
Election symbol
Indian Election Symbol Banana.svg
Party flag
ANSU Party flag.jpg

All Jharkhand Students Union or AJSU Party is a state political party of Jharkhand state, India. The party was founded on 22 June 1986, modelled after All Assam Students Union. AJSU was the brain child of Nirmal Mahto. It was conceived from the struggles of Jharkhand separate statehood movement and portrayed a more pragmatic and aggressive approach than its predecessors– JMM and Jharkhand Party. [4]

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Founding members of AJSU include Nirmal Mahato, Surya Singh Besra, Prabhakar Tirkey, Deosharan Bhagat, Kamal Kishore Bhagat, Praveen Prabhakar, among others.

History

AJSU organized general strikes and campaigns to boycott the Lok Sabha elections in 1989. The formation of Jharkhand State is accredited to its organised and persistent demand for statehood. Today, AJSU contests elections under the leadership of Sudesh Mahto, a former deputy Chief Minister of the state.

In the 2004 Lok Sabha elections, AJSU was allied with the Bharatiya Janata Party. Ahead of the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly election, 2005, AJSU broke with the BJP-led NDA and formed an alliance with Lok Janshakti Party.

Ahead of the 2014 Jharkhand Legislative Assembly election, AJSU again allied with the BJP-led NDA. [4] As results announced, AJSU won five seats while BJP won 37 seats in the state assembly securing the majority. AJSU party president Sudesh Mahto lost from his constituency Silli after representing it for nearly 15 years. [5]

Electoral history

Lok Sabha elections

Lok Sabha TermIndian
General Election
Seats
contested
Seats
won
Votes Polled% of
votes
Change in SeatsState (seats)
14th Lok Sabha 2004 501,57,930Steady2.svg Jharkhand
15th Lok Sabha 2009 602,00,523Steady2.svg
16th Lok Sabha 2014 904,81,667Steady2.svg
17th Lok Sabha 2019 11648,277Increase2.svg1
18th Lok Sabha 2024 11447,8962.62%Steady2.svg

Legislative Assembly elections

Vidhan Sabha TermJharkhand
General Election
Seats
contested
Seats
won
Votes Polled% of
votes
Change in Seats
2nd Jharkhand Assembly 2005 402284,9212.8Increase2.svg New
3rd Jharkhand Assembly 2009 545526,2315.12Increase2.svg 3
4th Jharkhand Assembly 2014 85510,2775.7Steady2.svg
5th Jharkhand Assembly 2019 5321,219,5358.10Decrease2.svg 3
6th Jharkhand Assembly 2024 101632,1863.54Decrease2.svg 1

List of presidents

Sl.PresidentPortraitTerm
1.Prabhakar Tirkey22 June 198619892 years, 194 days
2. Sudesh Mahto Sudesh Kumar Mahto 9117.JPG 2007Incumbent18 years, 244 days

List of deputy chief ministers

Sl.PortraitDeputy Chief Minister Constituency TermAssembly Chief Minister
1 Sudesh Kumar Mahto 9117.JPG Sudesh Mahto
(born 1974)
Silli 30 December 200931 May 2010152 days 3rd Shibu Soren
11 September 201018 January 20132 years, 129 days Arjun Munda

List of MPs

Members of Parliament, Lok Sabha

Sl.image.MPsConstituencyTerm
1. Chandraprakash Chaudhary 8910.JPG Chandra Prakash Choudhary Giridih 2019–2024
2024–Incumbent

See also

References

  1. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 September 2012. Retrieved 10 December 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. "List of Political Parties and Election Symbols main Notification Dated 18.01.2013" (PDF). India: Election Commission of India. 2013. Retrieved 9 May 2013.
  3. "झारखंड: रामगढ़ उपचुनाव में Nda का प्रत्याशी घोषित, जानिए किस नाम पर लगी मुहर".
  4. 1 2 "Born out of Jharkhand movement, BJP ally AJSU looks to make a splash in polls". The Indian Express. 8 November 2024. Retrieved 24 April 2025.
  5. "Jharkhand elections: Sudesh Mahto loses from Silli - IBNLive". ibnlive.in.com. Archived from the original on 23 December 2014. Retrieved 26 January 2022.