United Left sweeps JNUSU polls, SFI's Aishe Ghosh president
SFI gets president post after 13 years
New Delhi, Sep 17: The united front of Left student groups AISA, SFI, AISF, DSF won all the four central panel posts in the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union (JNUSU) polls, the election committee announced on Tuesday.
The RSS-affiliated Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) came second on the posts of president, vice president, general secretary and joint secretary.
The front comprises the Students' Federation of India (SFI), the Democratic Students' Federation (DSF), the All India Students' Association (AISA) and the All India Students' Federation (AISF).
SFI got the president’s post after 13 years, with Aishe Ghosh elected as JNUSU president with 2,313 votes. Ghosh defeated ABVP’s Manish Jangid, who got 1,128 votes, PTI reported.
The Congress-affiliated National Student's Union of India (NSUI) fielded a candidate only for the post of president.
Slogans of 'Lal Salaam' and 'Inquilab Zindabad' rent the air as the results were announced.
Left Unity wins all the 4 posts-President,Vice President, Secy&Joint Secy in JNU students' union(JNUSU)elections. Delhi HC had today allowed JNU election committee to declare its results. It had earlier put stay on declaration of results&restrained JNU admn from notifying results pic.twitter.com/5bTIaAirvd
— ANI (@ANI) September 17, 2019
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Congress using hijab issue to pacify minority anger, alleges Karnataka LoP R Ashoka
Bengaluru: Leader of Opposition in the Assembly R. Ashoka has accused the Congress government of using the hijab issue to placate what he described as discontent among minority voters after the Davanagere by-election.
In a post on X on Wednesday, Ashoka alleged that the state government, instead of addressing issues such as price rise, corruption, farmers’ distress and law and order, was attempting to retain its minority vote base by reviving the hijab issue.
Referring to the 2022 dress code introduced by the BJP government, which prohibited hijab in schools and colleges, Ashoka said the Karnataka High Court had upheld the policy and emphasised the importance of discipline in educational institutions.
He questioned the Congress government’s move to revisit the issue and asked whether setting aside the court-backed policy to benefit one community could be described as secularism.
Ashoka further alleged that while the government was willing to permit hijab, it continued to prohibit saffron shawls.
He accused the government of dividing students on religious lines rather than treating schools and colleges as spaces of equality.
Drawing a comparison with Mamata Banerjee’s government in West Bengal, Ashoka claimed that excessive appeasement politics had harmed the state and warned that the Congress in Karnataka could face a similar political response.
He said voters in Karnataka would teach the Congress a lesson for what he termed “vote-bank politics” and for compromising constitutional and judicial principles.
