The Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has set the election process of the university’s student union polls in motion with the appointment of a woman as the chief election commissioner (CEC) for the f
The Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has set the election process of the university’s student union polls in motion with the appointment of a woman as the chief election commissioner (CEC) for the first time, along with the constitution of a poll body.
“In a meeting convened by the JNUSU, Ishita Mana, a first year Ph.D. student of the School of Social Sciences (SSS) was unanimously appointed as the chief election commissioner,” former CEC for JNU polls, Dileep Maurya said. However, this is the first time that a woman CEC has been elected.
The election body, comprising the CEC along with members from various schools of JNU, will soon meet to decide the dates of the election, which may be held in September.
The name of the CEC is proposed by the JNUSU and has to be unanimously accepted by the election body, members of which are selected in the general body meetings of various schools in the varsity.
JNUSU is the representative body of the students in the varsity. The polls have been keenly contested since decades. Last year, CPI’s student wing, All India Students Federation (AISF) had opened its account in the JNUSU polls winning the president’s post, while ABVP has bagged one of the four central panel slots after a gap of 14 years.
