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.
Addressing the NSUI national executive meeting Saturday, Gandhi said the BJP-led central govt has sold everything in seven years that Congress built over the course of 70 years.
District Youth Congress president Vishwanath Kunwar said the youth has given a befitting reply to the BJP and made it clear that they want a regime change.
In the centuries to come, economist Bibek Debroy's Mahabharata will attain the importance we attach to the texts of Shankara, Ramanuja, and Madhvacharya.
In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.
The decorated Naga officer from Manipur also served as envoy to Myanmar & Nagaland chief secy. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated a museum dedicated to the Tawang hero Thursday.
Congress is silently acknowledging it over-read verdict of last general election. You can see it in easy concession to SP. It will likely be more reasonable in Maharashtra & Jharkhand.
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