The Jawaharlal Nehru University has been painted red again. The Left alliance of CPM and CPI (ML) on Saturday won all the four seats in swept the JNU Union elections.
The ABVP after winning three seats in DU polls have failed to bag any seat in JNU.
 AISA-SFI’s Mohit has been elected as the president and Amal PP won seat of vice-president of the students' union.
 Tabrez Hasan and Shatarupa Chakarborty have been elected as joint secretary and general secretary.
 The polls were closely watched in the aftermath of the Afzal Guru event which created row across the nation.
A total of 18 candidate tried their luck in the polls and it was a contest between ABVP and Left.
For the first time, the CPI(ML)'s student wing All India Students' Association (AISA), which has enjoyed a strong hold on the campus for years, formed an alliance with the Student Federation of India (SFI) of the CPI(M).
The alliance also emerged victorious on 30 out of 31 seats for councillors. ABVP won only one councillor seat from Department of Sanskrit.
Celebrations broke out on JNU campus as soon as the results were announced where students danced to the beats of traditional daflis with gulal smeared over their faces amid chants of "azaadi".
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