The Left Unity coalition secured a comprehensive victory in the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union elections Thursday, winning all four central panel positions and maintaining its dominance over the RSS-backed ABVP.

Just a year after the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) broke a decade-long dry spell by securing the joint secretary’s post in the previous JNUSU polls, the Left alliance comprising the All India Students’ Association (AISA), Students’ Federation of India (SFI) and Democratic Students’ Federation (DSF) bounced back emphatically in the 2025-26 election, reaffirming its long-standing dominance on the campus.

Aditi Mishra from AISA, contesting as the United Left’s presidential candidate, defeated RSS-backed ABVP’s Vikas Patel by a margin of 449 votes, polling 1

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