Left Unity registers landslide win in JNU elections 2025, sweeps all top posts

The Left Unity alliance has scored a dominant victory in the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union (JNUSU) Elections 2025, taking back every one of the four principal union positions. With this clean sweep, the Left has once again cemented its influence in one of India’s most politically engaged campuses.

Aditi Mishra has been elected President with 1,937 votes, comfortably ahead of ABVP candidate Vikas Patel, who polled 1,488 a gap of 449 votes.

For the Vice President’s post, K Gopika of the Left bloc romped home with 3,101 votes. Her rival, ABVP’s Tanya Kumari, got 1,787.

The General Secretary’s race turned out to be the tightest of the four contests Sunil Yadav (Left Unity) scraped through by a razor-thin margin of 24 votes, securing 2,005 votes against ABVP’s Rajeshwar Kant Dubey (1,981). Danish Ali made it four out of four for the Left by winning the Joint Secretary post with 2,083 votes, defeating ABVP nominee Anuj Damara, who finished at 1,797.

Election officials said overall voter participation stood at 67%, signalling that student political interest remains strong on campus.

The third-year PhD student at JNU’s Centre for Comparative Politics and Political Theory, Aditi Mishra is being seen as one of the new leading figures in Left student politics.

Mishra grew up in Varanasi. She completed her undergraduate degree in Economics from Banaras Hindu University (BHU) and then pursued a Master’s in South Asian Studies at Pondicherry University before moving to JNU.

Her introduction to activism came during the 2017 protests at BHU, when students raised their voices against alleged sexual harassment cases and discriminatory curfews imposed on women.