Apoorvanand | 26 March 2024 | The Wire

The Jawahar Lal Nehru University Students’ Union (JNUSU) elections – held after four years – are finally over and the United Left Front has won them.  ‘JNU painted red again’ is what they and their supporters claim. But on every post, candidates of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad have lost by a small margin. That’s why they are calling it their victory because the leftists who had differences among themselves came together out of fear of the Right, yet the difference between them and ABVP remained very small. Their argument is that if they had contested elections separately like before, the ABVP would definitely have won.

There was huge excitement in the media around this election. On the day of counting, the media seemed to be in a hurry to declare victory for the ABVP. The thought of the fall of the red bastion of JNU is what made it mad with joy. But in the end the results disappointed them and they lost interest. The Left Front won every post. Now it was the turn of the other side to claim that the results were a total rejection of the ideology of the RSS…

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