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Left Unity won the four main panel posts of President, Vice President, General Secretary and Joint Secretary
Left Unity’s Aditi Mishra (President, SFI), K Gopika (Vice President, SFI), Sunil Yadav (General Secretary, DSF) and Danish Ali (Joint Secretary, AISA) celebrate their victory in the JNUSU elections, in New Delhi on November 6, 2025. (Image: PTI)
In a close contest with ABVP, Left Unity on Thursday came out on top in the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union elections, winning all four central posts, confirming its ideological dominance in campus politics.
Left Unity won the four main panel posts of President, Vice Secretary, General Secretary and Joint Secretary.
Left Unity’s Aditi Mishra was elected JNUSU president with 1,937 votes defeating ABVP candidate Vikas Patel, who secured 1,488 votes. Left Unity’s candidate for the vice-president’s post, K Gopika Babu, won by 3,101 votes and gave a massive defeat to ABVP’s Tanya Kumari by 1,787 votes.
Left Unity’s Sunil Yadav (2,005 votes) won the close contest for the post of general secretary by a margin of just 24 votes, defeating ABVP’s Rajeshwar Kant Dubey, who got 1,981 votes. Danish Ali of Left Unity won the post of joint secretary by defeating ABVP’s Anuj Damara by 2,083 votes.
Left Unity is an alliance of All India Students Association (AISA), Students Federation of India (SFI) and Democratic Students Federation (DSF). Newly elected president Aditi Mishra and vice president K Gopika Babu are from SFI, while Sunil Yadav is from DSF and Danish Ali is from AISA.
This year, about 9,043 students were eligible to vote and the election recorded a 67 percent turnout, slightly lower than the previous election’s 70 percent. The campus witnessed vibrant participation from students standing in queues outside hostels and schools amid chants, drums and campaign songs.
Despite being a close contest, the result is a blow to the ABVP which had made a comeback into the JNUSU central panel last year when Vaibhav Meena won the joint secretary post – the first win for the RSS-backed organization in a decade. Earlier, Saurabh Sharma’s victory in 2015 had ended a 14-year drought for the right-wing organisation.
Before this, ABVP’s only presidential victory was in 2000–01, when Sandeep Mohapatra broke the Left’s dominance. With this year’s result, the Left unity has reasserted its political dominance, continuing its long tradition of leadership in JNU – a campus often seen as the cradle of debate, dissent and student activism.
(With PTI inputs)
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November 06, 2025, 9:03 pm IST
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