While vowing to take the varsity’s legacy forward of being a politically active campus and a ground for free speech and debate, the newly-elected JNU Students’ Union took oath of office on Monday.
While vowing to take the varsity’s legacy forward of being a politically active campus and a ground for free speech and debate, the newly-elected JNU Students’ Union took oath of office on Monday.
Left-unity alliance, the first such agreement between the All-India Students Association (Aisa) and Students Federation of In-dia (SFI), stormed to victory Saturday, sweeping all four seats of the union.
This year, the varsity elections were closely watched in aftermath of the recent controversies on campus kick-started by an event during which anti-national slogans were allegedly raised leading to a heated debate on nationalism and arrest of three students in a sedition ca-se, including former JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar.
Mohit Kumar Pandey, a 29 year-old Ph.D. student in media studies and an Aisa member, took oath as Kanhaiya’s successor.
He won the post of president in the new JNUSU by garnering 409 votes more that the runner-up, Birsa Ambedkar Phule Studen-ts’ Association’s (BAPSA) Sonpimple Rahul Punar-am.
“The mandate we have got is against the RSS, the ABVP and there so called ‘shut-down-JNU campaign’,” the newly-elected president said.
