Jawaharlal Nehru University - Student Activism

Student Activism

The university is known to have a long tradition of alumni that now occupy important political and bureaucratic positions (see: Prominent alumni) . This is in part due to the strong prevalence of left-centric student politics and the existence of a written constitution for the University to which noted Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Prakash Karat contributed exhaustively during his education at J.N.U. However, on October 24, 2008 the Supreme Court of India had stayed the JNU elections and banned the JNUSU for not complying with the recommendations of the Lyngdoh committee . After a prolonged struggle and multi-party negotiations, the ban was lifted on December 8, 2011. After a gap of more than 4 years, interim elections were scheduled again on 1st march, 2012. Following the election results declared on 3 March 2012, AISA candidates won all the 4 central panel seats and Sucheta De, the president of AISA became the president of JNUSU.