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The Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union or JNUSU is a students' union at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. [1] [2]

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The JNUSU follows the student drafted JNUSU constitution. [3] [4]

The Students' Union has four central panel positions. These are the posts of President, Vice President, General Secretary and Joint Secretary. [5]

An EPW study notes how in the last four decades (1974–2008 and 2012–17), in the JNUSU elections, the Students’ Federation of India (SFI) has won the post of president 22 times while All India Students’ Association (AISA) has won it 11 times while Akhil Bhartia Vidhyarthi Parishad (ABVP) has won it once. [3] Notable presidents of JNUSU include CPI(M) politician Sitaram Yechury who was president in 1977-78, Congress National Secretary Shakeel Ahmed Khan in 1992-93 and Congress Rajya Sabha MP Syed Naseer Hussain in 1999-2000. [6] [7] [8] Vijoo Krishnan became the president of JNUSU in 1998. [9] D Raghunandan, D. P. Tripathi, Nalini Ranjan Mohanty also served as President. [10]

Chandrashekhar Prasad another president of the JNSU was assassinated after joining politics in Bihar in 1997. [8]

JNUSU elections

JNUSU elections are conducted by students through an elected Election Committee. [11] In 2006, the Lyngdoh Committee, [12] [13] formed to frame guidelines for 'Students’ Union Elections' across the country noted that there is no need for altering the JNU model and that JNU's model would be "difficult to replicate elsewhere". [11] [14] However the JNUSU passed a resolution in 2016 to hold the elections via the JNUS constitution and not the Lyngdoh Committee model. [4]

The Students Union has four central panel positions. These are the posts of President, Vice President, General Secretary and Joint Secretary. Other posts include Councillors for each of the Schools and as well as a part time Councillor. [5] In 2019 there were 43 Councillors. [15]

After 2015, the left parties have been fighting the elections as one unit under the umbrella of United Left. [16]

Union Presidents

JNU is known for best Presidential debates by all candidates before elections. [17] [18] [19]

SFI has won the post of President the maximum number of times in the last 40 years, [lower-alpha 1] a total of 22 times. [3] All India Students’ Association (AISA) follows by having won the presidents post 11 times. [3] SFI, AISF and AISA are the student wings of the Communist Parties. [3]

Presidents of JNUSU

PresidentStudent OrganizationDurationFirst Runner-upStudent OrganizationVice-PresidentStudent Organization
Dhananjay AISA (United Left)2024-nowAbhijit Ghosh SFI (United Left)
Aishe Ghosh SFI (United Left)2019-2024Manish Jangid [20] ABVP [21] Saket MoonDSF (United Left)
N Sai Balaji AISA [22] (United Left)2018-2019Lalit Pandey [23] ABVP [21] Sarika Chaudhary [24] DSF (United Left)
Geeta Kumari AISA (United Left)2017-2018Nidhi Tripathi ABVP [25] Simone Zoya Khan [26]
Mohit K Pandey AISA (United Left)2016-2017Sonpimple Rahul Punaram BAPSA [27]
Kanhaiya Kumar AISF 2015-2016Vijay Kumar AISA [28] Shehla Rashid AISA (United Left)
Ashutosh Kumar AISA 2014-2015
Akbar Chawdhary AISA 2013-2014
V. Lenin KumarDSF2012-2013
Sucheta De AISA 2011-2012
Election did not take place2010-2011
Election did not take place2009-2010
Election did not take place2008-2009
Sandeep Singh [29] AISA 2007-2008
Dhananjay Tripathi SFI 2006-2007Tyler Walker Williams AISA
Mona Das [6] AISA 2005-2006
Mona Das [6] AISA 2004-2005
Rohit Azad [6] 2003-2004
Rohit Azad [6] 2002-2003
Albeena Shakil [7] SFI 2001-2002
Sandeep Mahapatra [7] ABVP 2000-2001
Syed Naseer Hussain SFI 1999-2000
Vijoo Krishnan SFI 1998-1999
1997-1998
Batti Lal Bairwa SFI 1996-1997
1995-1996
Chandrashekhar Prasad [30] AISA 1994-1995
Chandrashekhar Prasad [8] AISA 1993-1994
Shakeel Ahmed Khan [8] SFI 1992-1993 Chandrashekhar Prasad [8]
Tanvir Akhtar [8] NSUI 1991-1992 Shakeel Ahmed Khan [8] SFI
Sitaram Yechury [10] SFI 1977-1978
Prakash Karat [10] SFI 1976-1977
D. P. Tripathi [31] SFI 1975-1976

While some JNUSU presidents joined politics after JNU other presidents such as V. Lenin Kumar and Dhananjay Tripathi pursued academics. [6] Those who joined politics include Ashutosh Kumar who joined CPI-ML(Liberation), Kanhaiya Kumar joined the CPI and Sandeep Singh joined the Indian National Congress. [6]

Sandeep Mahapatra has been the only JNUSU president from Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP).

Notable student organisations

These student organisations contest in JNUSU: [32]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ 1974–2008 and 2012–17

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