Who is Dhananjay JNU Students Union’s First Dalit President since 1996, knows JNU Election Result

JNU Election Result: In the student union elections of Delhi’s prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), the Left candidate has won the President and Vice President posts. Left’s Dhananjay has won the President post and Avijit Ghosh has won the Vice President seat. Let us tell you that in the initial trends, ABVP was leading on all four seats but in the last trend, the Left made a comeback. 

Let us tell you, Left candidate Dhananjay got a total of 2598 votes for the post of JNU Students Union President. At the same time, ABVP candidate Umesh Chandra Ajmeera got 1686 votes. Apart from this, the Left candidate won by a huge margin for the post of Vice President. Avijit Ghosh got 2409 votes and ABVP candidate Deepika Sharma got 1482 votes.

Who is Dhananjay, the new president of JNU Students Union?

Dhananjay, the winning candidate of the Left for the post of president, is a PhD student from the School of Arts and Aesthetics. Dhananjay is a resident of Gaya, Bihar and belongs to the Dalit community. His father is a retired policeman. After about 27 years, a candidate from the Dalit community has won the post of JNU Students Union President. Earlier, Batti Lal Bairwa had won in 1996-67.

Let us tell you, during the counting of votes in JNU student union elections, a lot of enthusiasm was seen among the left supporters. Seeing the left candidates gaining lead, the students kept shouting slogans ‘The entire campus is red’. 

Left won on these two seats too

Arjun Anand (ABVP), who contested for the post of General Secretary in the student union elections, got a total of 1961 votes. Meanwhile, Priyanshi Arya won by getting 2887 votes. Priyanshi (BAPSA, supported by Left) is the candidate. Meanwhile, Govind Dangi (ABVP), who was contesting for the post of Joint Secretary, got 2066 votes whereas Mohammad Sajid (Left) won by getting a total of 2575 votes. There was a time when the Left candidate was trailing by many votes from the ABVP candidate, but by night the trends became clear and the ABVP candidate lagged behind in the race.