JNUSU Elections 2018: United Left Alliance sweeps polls

The United Left Alliance has won the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union (JNUSU) elections. The party has bagged all central panel posts with N Sai Balaji elected as the President, Sarika Chaudhary as the Vice President, Aejaz Ahmed Rather as the General Secretary and Amutha Jayadeep as the Joint Secretary, reported ANI. The vote counting of the high-decibel JNUSU was halted after Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) leaders allegedly broke into counting centres and manhandled the Election Committee members. However, the ABVP members rejected the charges and said that the counting of votes were started without informing them.

Reports of violence and protests kept sprawling the campus of JNU on Saturday and thousand of students, faculty members and political volunteers were present in the campus till late on Saturday night. Even a clash broke out on Saturday which reportedly ended up with injuring 10 people. Even a police case was filed in the Vasant Kunj police station.