JNUSU Elections 2023: All-organisations meeting held to push for students’ union poll

NEW DELHI: The student ogranisations of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has issued a statement against the JNU administration’s alleged attempt to not hold JNUSU elections 2023-24. The student groups convened a meeting to push for the conduct of the JNUSU elections 2023-24 this semester itself.

“All progressive student organizations of the campus committed to the democratic character of the campus condemn the Administration and ABVP's tactics aimed at delaying and disrupting the JNUSU election process of 2023-24,” the statement read.

The JNU vice-chancellor told the media that the administration will not allow students to conduct the JNUSU 2023-24 elections in the monsoon semester of 2023-24. The students condemned the statement and “resolved to put together a united resistance against the administrative attempts at stopping the JNUSU elections 2023-24”.

The JNUSU Elections 2023 was not conducted for the past three years due to COVID-19 pandemic and multiple academic sessions. In the joint statement of all-organisations said, “The Administration has been running multiple academic sessions after 2019-20 to ensure that the elections are not held. This is a deliberate strategy of the JNU Administration to curb the growth of the students' social and political consciousness which leads to the growth of the students as critical citizens capable of asking tough questions to those in power.”

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It further criticized the JNU administration-ABVP combine has a twin agenda of not allowing the election process to be held and replacing the student-elected Election Committee with an “Administration-nominated puppet body subservient” to them.

Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad did not take part in the all-organisations meeting. On this, the student groups said, “The decision of ABVP to not participate in the all-organization meeting could be understood in the light of their historical role as the bootlickers of the Administration and the foot soldiers of their Sanghi masters in the Administration. “

However, it clarified that the posters of the all-organisation meeting were released two days before and ABVP was also invited. President of ABVP, Umesh Chandra Ajmeera, conveyed to JNUSU President Aishe Ghosh that ABVP would boycott the meeting.