At meeting with AICC Telangana in-charge, NSUI’s HCU representatives demanded that land auction be halted and detained students be released. But there's a split in the student wing too.
NSUI's Ronak Khatri & Lokesh Choudhary are new president & joint secretary, respectively. ABVP's Bhanu Pratap & Mitravinda Karanwal are new vice president & secretary, respectively.
Resentment has grown in Congress against 'lateral entrants' with Left background, with Kanhaiya being criticised for lack of interest in building organisation from grassroots.
Over last 10 years, DUSU elections have been dominated by ABVP and NSUI. This time, Left-wing AISA-SFI alliance is positioning itself as a progressive alternative.
Behind lack of enthusiasm in campus are factors including his switch to Congress, near silence on fellow student leader Umar Khalid, differences between NSUI & Left groups.
The ABVP are trying to present a more moderate image and working on grassroots by making student to student contact, says a JNU scholar on campus since 2016.
ABVP candidate Tushar Dedha wins post of president while Aparajita & Sachin Baisla become secretary & co-secretary. Abhi Dahiya of NSUI becomes vice-president.
Kumar joined Congress in 2021. He had defeated NSUI's candidate to become president of JNUSU in 2015-16, representing the All India Students’ Federation, a left-wing student body.
ABVP candidates won seven, SFI two and Independents five presidential posts in the Rajasthan student union polls, while Congress' student wing NSUI drew a blank.
The operation in Chhattisgarh, hailed as the most successful anti-Naxal action in recent times, dealt a significant blow to the top Maoist leadership, striking at the very spine of the Naxalite movement.
Diving into workings of Gurugram fulfilment centre, Abhinav Singh, V-P (Ops) at Amazon India, offers insights into how company manages logistics, in conversation with ThePrint Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta.
In his new book, CDS emphasises that India secures itself through policy & structure, not a written NSS document. Israel never released a formal NSS, he mentions.
India is better positioned in the world than at any point post-Cold war. We have to decide if global opinion matters to us or not. If it does, we must engage with their media, think tanks, civil society.
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