AUD Student Union Elections 2025: SFI sweeps polls, secures 24 out of 45 seats

NEW DELHI: The Students’ Federation of India (SFI) has won the majority of seats in the Ambedkar University Delhi Students’ Council (AUDSC) elections for 2025. After a six-year gap, AUD student union elections were finally held this year. SFI secured 24 out of 45 councillor seats across AUD’s four campuses in AUDSC election 2025.

As per AUD student union elections data 2025, SFI won 16 out of 28 seats, having contested 18 at Kashmere Gate campus. In Karampura, the SFI secured 5 out of 12 seats. SFI made its debut in Lodhi Road and Qutub institutional area campuses, winning 1 out of 3 seats and 2 out of 2 seats.

AISA secured a total of six seats, with four in Kashmere Gate and two in Karampura. ABVP managed to win three seats—two in Kashmere Gate and one in Karampura. AISA, ABVP could not secure any seats in Lodhi or Qutub campuses.

AUD Student Union Elections 2025: Results

The organisation-wise breakdown of results for the AUDSC elections 2025 are as follows.

As the largest elected group in AUDSC, SFI councillors will play a role in forming the five-member Central Coordination Committee (CCC). The CCC functions as the central panel of the student council.

AUD Student Elections: SFI’s campaign to conduct election

SFI had previously secured majorities in the 2018 and 2019 elections, electing an SFI-led CCC on both occasions. The student body elections had been delayed since 2019, with the administration reluctant to conduct them. However, SFI led a year-long campaign to push for elections.

"SFI through a year long campaign that began ever since the campuses opened in the post-COVID period, forced the administration to conduct the elections. This is a victory of the common students of AUD,” said Shefali, secretary of SFI AUD Kashmere Gate campus unit.

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Anan, convenor of SFI Karampura campus, stated that the election results reflect students’ rejection of right-wing student politics. He stated that the students' votes rejected the RSS-affiliated Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) from making a place at AUD.

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SFI’s performance at AUD follows its victories in JNU, Ramjas College, and DU-ICC, as well as an increased electoral share in the Delhi University Students’ Union (DUSU) elections.

“Over the years, the RSS-affiliated ABVP made several attempts to gain a toehold in the campuses. Faculty for new departments opened were filled entirely with right-leaning faculty, often circumventing the standard procedure for hiring competent professors. It is here that ABVP has tried to influence of students, using these newly faculty for their propaganda. Yet, in these elections, students of AUD have wholesale rejected the right-wing communal and venomous politics of ABVP. This makes us so proud,” said Anan, convenor of SFI AUD Karampura Gate campus.