The Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union or JNUSU is a

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Jawaharlal Nehru University Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) is a public major research university located in New Delhi, India. It was established in 1969 and named after Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister. The university is known for leading faculties an ...

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. The JNUSU follows the student drafted JNUSU constitution. The Students' Union has four central panel positions. These are the posts of President, Vice President, General Secretary and Joint Secretary. An EPW study notes how in the last four decades (1974–2008 and 2012–17), in the JNUSU elections, the Students’ Federation of India (SFI) has won the post of president 22 times while All India Students’ Association (AISA) has won it 11 times while Akhil Bhartia Vidhyarti Parishad (ABVP) has won it once. Notable presidents of JNUSU include

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politician

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who was president in 1977-78, Congress National Secretary Shakeel Ahmed Khan in 1992-93 and Congress Rajya Sabha MP Syed Naseer Hussain in 1999-2000. Vijoo Krishnan became the president of JNUSU in 1998. D Raghunandan, D. P. Tripathi, Nalini Ranjan Mohanty also served as President.

Chandrashekhar Prasad Chandrashekar Prasad (20 September 1964 – 31 March 1997) popularly known as Chandu was a student leader and later an activist affiliated to the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation. He graduated from the Jawaharlal Nehru Uni ...

another president of the JNSU was assassinated after joining politics in Bihar in 1997.

JNUSU elections

JNUSU elections are conducted by students through an elected Election Committee. In 2006, the Lyngdoh Committee, formed to frame guidelines for 'Students’ Union Elections' across the country noted that there is no need for altering the JNU model and that JNU's model would be "difficult to replicate elsewhere". However the JNUSU passed a resolution in 2016 to hold the elections via the JNUS constitution and not the Lyngdoh Committee model. The Students Union has four central panel positions. These are the posts of President, Vice President, General Secretary and Joint Secretary. Other posts include Councillors for each of the Schools and as well as a part time Councillor. In 2019 there were 43 Councillors. After 2015, the left parties have been fighting the elections as one unit under the umbrella of United Left.

Union Presidents

JNU is known for best Presidential debates by all candidates before elections. SFI has won the post of President the maximum number of times in the last 40 years, a total of 22 times. All India Students’ Association (AISA) follows by having won the presidents post 11 times. SFI, AISF and AISA are the student wings of the Communist Parties.

Presidents of JNUSU

While some JNUSU presidents joined politics after JNU other presidents such as V. Lenin Kumar and Dhananjay Tripathi pursued academics. Those who joined politics include Ashutosh Kumar who joined CPI-ML(Liberation),

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joined the CPI and

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joined the

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. Sandeep Mahapatra has been the only JNUSU president from

Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) () is a right-wing all India student organisation affiliated to the Hindu nationalist organization Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). History The ABVP, founded in 1948 with the initiative of the RSS a ...

(ABVP).

Notable student organisations

These student organisations contest in JNUSU: *

(ABVP) * All India Students Association (AISA) * All India Students Federation (AISF) *

Students' Federation of India The Students' Federation of India (abbreviated as SFI) is an Indian left-wing student organisation politically aligned to the ideologies of Independence, Democracy and Socialism. Currently, V. P. Sanu and Mayukh Biswas are elected as the All ...

(SFI) * Muslim Students Federation - MSF (MSF) *

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(FM) * Campus Front of India (CFI) *

Birsa Ambedkar Phule Students' Association Birsa Ambedkar Phule Students' Association (BAPSA) is a student organization formed on 15 November 2014 at Jawaharlal Nehru University on Birsa Munda's birth anniversary. It claims to work for student rights and the issues affecting SCs, STs, OB ...

(BAPSA) *

Students Islamic Organisation of India The Students Islamic Organisation of India (SIO) ( hi, स्टूडेंट्स इस्लामिक ऑर्गनाइजेशन ऑफ इंडिया; ur, اسٹوڈنٹس اسلامک آرگنائزیشن آف انڈیا ...

(SIO) *

National Students' Union of India The National Students Union of India, the student wing of the Indian National Congress (INC or Congress), was established on 9 April 1971. The organisation was founded by Indira Gandhi after merging the Kerala Students Union and the West Beng ...

(NSUI) *

Mithila Student Union Mithila Student Union (MSU) (Maithili language, Maithili : :hi:मिथिला स्टूडेंट यूनियन, मिथिला स्टूडेंट यूनियन) is a non-political student organisation whose sole purpo ...

(MSU) (Supporting DSU) *

All India Democratic Students Organisation All India Democratic Students' Organisation (AIDSO) is a student organisation in India. It was founded on 28 December 1954, and is affiliated with the Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist). Its motto is ''struggle, unity, progress''. Bas ...

(AIDSO) (Supporting left unity) *

Democratic Students' Union Democrat, Democrats, or Democratic may refer to: Politics *A proponent of democracy, or democratic government; a form of government involving rule by the people. *A member of a Democratic Party: ** Democratic Party (United States) (D) **Democrat ...

(DSU) (Not contesting in elections) *Bhagat Singh Ambedkar Students Organisation] (BASO) *Democratic Students Federation (DSF) *

Ambedkar Students' Association Ambedkar Students' Association (ASA) is a student organization in India representing students from Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (SC/ST), Other Backward Class (OBC), religious minorities and other oppressed communities. ASA works for th ...

(ASA) (Supporting BAPSA) *

All India Revolutionary Students Federation The All India Revolutionary Students Federation (AIRSF) was a frontal organisation of the Communist Party of India (Maoist). History The Radical Students Union (RSU) organised an all-India seminar in Madras in August 1981 to discuss the nation ...

(1985 - 2001) (Organised student protest - supporting DSU) * United Dalit Students’ Forum (UDSF) (Supporting BAPSA) *

Students For Society The Students For Society (SFS) was founded in Panjab University, Chandigarh on 28 September 2010 as a students' discussion group for holding discussions on books and social issues, on the 103rd birth anniversary of Bhagat Singh. It rejected the p ...

(SFS) (Supporting DSU & BASO) * Student Organisation of India (SOI) (Previously) *

All Idu Mishmi Students Union All Idu Mishmi Students Union (AIMSU) is a community-based student’s organization of Idu Mishmi tribe in Arunachal Pradesh, India. The organization is socially active and best known for its movement against dams in Arunachal Pradesh's Dibang ...

(AIMSU) (Supporting DSU)

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* {{Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' unions in India Jawaharlal Nehru University