Vowing to take the varsity's legacy forward of being a "politically active" campus and a ground for free speech and debate, the newly election JNU students union took oath of office today.
Left-Unity alliance, first such agreement between the All India Students Association (AISA) and Students Federation of India (SFI), stormed to victory last Saturday sweeping all four seats of the union.
The varsity elections this year were closely watched this year in aftermath of the recent controversies on campus kick-started by an event during which anti-national slogans were allegedly raised leading to a heated debate on nationalism and arrest of three students in a sedition case including former JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar.
Mohit Kumar Pandey, a 29 year-old PhD student in media studies and an AISA member, took oath as Kanhaiya's successor.
He won the post of president in the new JNUSU by garnering 409 votes more that the runner-up, Birsa Ambedkar Phule Students' Association's (BAPSA) Sonpimple Rahul Punaram.
"The mandate we have got is against the RSS, the ABVP and there so called 'shut-down-JNU campaign'. We will take forward the legacy of the university which stands for free speech and debate and is considered one of the most politically active campuses," Pandey said.
Satarpura Chakraborty, the only female in the new JNUSU panel, is pursuing her PhD in Philosophy has been activist of SFI and former union counsellor.
Others who took oath to the union include Tabrez Hasan as the Joint Secretary and Amal PP as the Vice President.
JNUSU is the representative body of the students in the university and the polls have been keenly contested over the decades.
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