Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad has witnessed an unprecedented performance in Jawaharlal Nehru University Student Union Elections, recording historic victories by winning 23 out of 42 councillor seats across 16 schools and special centres. This is the highest number of seats won by any student organisation.
Details of ABVP’s Victories across the Councillor posts:
•School of International Studies: won 2 out of 5 seats
•School of Social Sciences: won 2 out of 5 seats
•School of Biotechnology: won 1 out of 2 seats
•Special Centre for Molecular Medicine: won 1 out of 1 seat
•School of Computational and Integrative Sciences: won 1 out of 2 seats
•School of Computer and System Sciences: won 2 out of 3 seats
•School of Engineering: won 4 out of 4 seats (clean sweep)
•Special Centre for NanoScience: won 1 out of 1 seat
•School of Sanskrit and Indic Studies: won 3 out of 3 seats (clean sweep)
•Amalgamated Centre: won 2 out of 2 seats (clean sweep)
•School of Environmental Science: won 1 out of 2 seats
•Atal Bihari Vaypayee School of Management and Entrepreneurship: won 1 out of 1 seat
•School of Physical Sciences: won 2 out of 3 seats
ABVP also achieved two historic milestones this election:
1. In the school of Social Sciences, considered a centre of left influence in JNU, ABVP secured two seats for first time in 25 years signaling a historic shift.
2. Similarly in the School of International Studies, long dominated by leftist ideology, ABVP won two seats establishing a new political discourse.
Right from the beginning of election process, ABVP had demonstrated a strong and dynamic presence. Several candidates were elected unopposed for Councillor posts in various schools:
•Surendra Bishnoi was elected unopposed to the sole seat in the School of Biotechnology.
•Praveen Piyush, Raja Babu and Prachi Jaiswal were elected unopposed to the all three seats of the School of Sanskrit and Indic Studies.
•Govardhan Singh was elected unopposed to the seat in Special centre for Molecular Medicine.
After 2475 votes SOE, SCIENCE+, SIS
For president
Akshan Ranjan (CRJD)- 60
Arvind Kumar (SCS)- 13
C. Taiyyaba Ahmed (SFI+AISF)- 321
Kunal Kumar (Ind)- 15
Nitish Kumar (Ind)- 53
Nitish Kumar Phd (Aisa-Dsf)- 579
Pradeep Dhaka (NSUI)- 278
Prerit Lodha (Disha)- 62
Raushan Kumar (Ind)- 08
Shikha Swaraj (ABVP)- 756
Siddharth Gautam (Ind)- 174
Suman (AIDSO)- 20
Warke Avichal Amar (BAPSA)- 29
NOTA 76
Vice president
Akash Kumar Rawani (Ind)- 453
Manisha (AISA-DSF)- 479
Md. Kaif (Fraternity)- 297
Nittu Gautam (ABVP)- 710
Santosh Kumar (SFI+AISF) – 319
NOTA- 163
General secretary
Arun Pratap (NSUI)- 77
Kunal Rai (ABVP)- 832
Munteha Fatima (AISA-DSF)- 520
Ramnivas gurjar (SFI+AISF) – 289
Niraj Kumar Bharat (BAPSA)- 41
Yari Nayam (Ind)- 523
NOTA- 128
Joint secretary
Naresh Kumar (AISA-DSF)- 535
Nigam Kumari (SFI+AISF) – 435
Ritika (BAPSA)- 118
Saloni Khandelwal (NSUI)- 295
Vaibhav Meena (ABVP)- 823
NOTA-204
Furthermore, ABVP candidates are maintaining strong leads for all four major positions in the Central Panel; Shiksha Swaraj for President, Nittu Goutham for Vice-President, Kunal Rai for General Secretary and Vaibhav Meena for Joint-Secretary showing the wide acceptance of ABVP in JNU and student’s trust in its leadership.
ABVP JNU Unit President Rajeshwar Kant Dubey stated, “These victories is an onset of the positive change that the students of JNU have chosen through ABVP. It is the result of our commitment to nationalism, academic excellence and student welfare. We shall continue to work with complete dedication to make the campus a centre of nation-building and student welfare”
