A good day turned bad for the right-wing Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) on Saturday as its celebrations over the Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) polls turned sour with a drubbing in the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union (JNUSU) election outcome.
While the ABVP won three out of the four seats in DUSU with the Congress-backed National Students Union of India (NSUI) gaining by winning the Joint Secretary post, in JNU the ‘United Left’ swept all four seats.
The strategy of the left-wing, the All India Students Association (AISA) and the Students Federation of India (SFI) to come together for the first time against the ABVP to form the United Left clearly worked.
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This was the first student election in the Jawaharlal Nehru University since the arrest of outgoing JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar — of the CPI-backed All India Students Federation — and two others on charges of sedition.