JNUSU polls: Chhatra RJD, BAPSA and NSUI will go it alone as alliance talks fail

Ahead of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union (JNUSU) polls, the Chhatra RJD, BAPSA and NSUI held several rounds of discussion to form an alliance but the talks did not materialise and the parties decided to go it alone.

The Congress-affiliated National Students' Union of India is contesting on the president's post.

The Birsa Ambedkar Phule Students' Association (BAPSA) is contesting for the posts of president and general secretary, while the Chhatra Rashtriya Janata Dal, the student wing of the RJD, is contesting for the posts of president and vice president.

Sources said the Chhatra RJD wanted to form an alliance with BAPSA since they are ideologically aligned.

They were also in favour of having NSUI in the alliance but the BAPSA had reservations about the presence of the Congress-backed student unit, the sources said.

The sources also said that NSUI and CRJD had interactions over it, BAPSA and CRJD also had some rounds of talks and even the NSUI and BAPSA had discussions but the three parties never sat together and discussed about the alliance.

The sources attributed this communication gap for the alliance not materialising.

Jayant Jigyasu of the CRJD said, "We were in favour of the alliance. We were ready to leave the president's post and ready to contest for the post of general secretary. BAPSA would have fought for the president's post and NSUI for vice-president but things did not materialise."