JNU students await student election results: Vibrant graffiti, pithy slogans dot campus walls
Up until February 2016’s sedition row, over anti-national slogans being raised on campus, this was a space for students to register their resistance
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At the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), September, particularly its first week, is an important period because of the JNU Students’ Union elections. Firstpost/Pallavi Rebbapragada
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In the lead up to the 2017 JNUSU election results, the campus is roaring with vibrant slogans and new ideas and it has become a hub for people practising merciless criticism. Firstpost/Pallavi Rebbapragada
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During elections, both politicians and their politics start to operate at a different level altogether — often the hyper active stage of chaos and propaganda. Firstpost/Pallavi Rebbapragada
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The Left parties have yet again ganged up against Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the student wing of RSS. Firstpost/Pallavi Rebbapragada
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The alliance comprising AISA-SFI-DSF (All India Students’ Association, Student Federation of India, and Democratic Students’ Federation) is the unified Left force that is rallying against the rise of fascist powers on campus. Firstpost/Pallavi Rebbapragada
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In 2015, the ABVP won the JNUSU elections after 14 years, despite being democratically isolated by others. The party has, ever since, made its presence felt in JNU’s student politics. Firstpost/Pallavi Rebbapragada
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Targeting the opposition over this issue, the ABVP manifesto states: ‘Communists have brought the evil culture of harassing and exploiting women in the name of liberty and revolution. Firstpost/Pallavi Rebbapragada
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Dissent isn’t only against the state, it’s against one another too and the right to assert that dissent without a disruption of peace is what JNU wants in these elections. The JNU election results will be out on 11 September. Firstpost/Pallavi Rebbapragada
