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In the polls that took place after a hiatus of four years, Dhananjay from the All India Students Association (AISA) won the JNUSU president s post by securing 2,598 votes against the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad s (ABVP) Umesh C Ajmeera, who secured 1,676 votes.
The JNUSU polls which were held after a gap of four years saw the United Left’s candidate Dhananjay, a Dalit, elected as the president in at least 27 years defeating ABVP’s Umesh Chandra Ajmeera by 922 votes