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
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
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
The Left parties have yet again ganged up against Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the student wing of RSS. Firstpost/Pallavi Rebbapragada
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
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
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
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