JNUSU polls: Massive improvement in vote share from 2017, says NSUI

The Congress-affiliated NSUI said it has seen a "massive" improvement in its vote share in the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union (JNUSU) polls from 2017.

The polls were swept by the united front of Left student groups AISA, SFI, AISF, DSF that won all the four central panel posts in the union.

The National Students' Union of India (NSUI) this time fielded candidate only for the JNUSU president post.

In 2017, the NSUI's presidential candidate Vrishinika got 82 votes, while in this election, which saw a turnout of 67.9 per cent, Prashant Kumar polled 771 votes, which the students' body termed as "massive".

Last year, Vikas Yadav from the Congress-affiliate body had polled 405 votes for the president post and was behind Jayant Kumar of the Chhatra RJD, which had made its electoral debut in the campus in 2018.

The RSS-affiliated Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) came second on the posts of president, vice president, general secretary and joint secretary.

In 2018, NSUI's vote share for the presidential seat was around 7.75 per cent, whereas this time, it doubled to 13.46 per cent.

JNU NSUI unit in-charge Sunny Mehta said, "From a little over 70 votes in 2017 to 771 votes in 2019, we have seen a massive improvement in our vote share."