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The Election Committee of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) connected Wednesday released the last database of candidates contesting the posts of president, vice-president, wide secretary, and associated caput successful the upcoming JNU Students’ Union (JNUSU) polls scheduled for November 4.
While 7 candidates are successful the fray for the president’s post, 3 volition combat it retired for the vice-president’s post, and 5 each are vying for the posts of wide caput and associated secretary.
This year, the All India Students’ Association, the Students’ Federation of India, and the Democratic Students’ Federation person formed an confederation – Left Unity – to “prevent the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) from entering the union”.
Addressing a property conference, the Left Unity candidates outlined the issues they privation to enactment connected and unveiled canvass promises.
Aditi Mishra, the alliance’s statesmanlike candidate, said she would absorption on “infrastructure improvement and commodification of education”. Attacking the ABVP, she said, “We tin spot that unit is what gets you higher posts successful ABVP. I privation to intensify the enactment done by the erstwhile union.”
ABVP’s statesmanlike candidate, Vikas Patel, said the Left-led JNUSU “makes the aforesaid promises successful their manifesto each twelvemonth and fails to fulfil them”.
The ABVP said that the Left organisations person failed to “maintain world quality, infrastructure development, and antiauthoritarian discourse”.
Vikash, statesmanlike campaigner of the Congress-backed National Students’ Union of India, said, “There’s a right-left binary that we privation to change.”
“Curtailing of protests” occurred portion the Left was astatine the helm, helium said.
Birsa Ambedkar Phule Students’ Association’s Raj Ratan Rajoriya is among different candidates vying for the apical post.
