Hours before nominations for the 2025-26 JNU students’ Union (JNUSU) election closed on Monday, the National Students’ Union of India (NSUI), students’ wing of the Congress, confirmed that they will contest for posts in the central panel.

The election, scheduled for November 4, will be a multi-corner contest involving the United Left of the DSF, SFI, and AISA; ABVP, the students’ wing of the RSS; NSUI; and Birsa Ambedkar Phule Students’ Association (BAPSA).

For decades, JNU has been a showcase for Left politics on campus, the slogans of which were sharpened into party manifestos and whose student leaders often took up larger party political roles.

In recent decades though, a different transition has been visible — several prominent faces from the Left student movement in JNU have crosse

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