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On July 3, INDIA bloc student organisations held a joint protest demonstration at Jantar Mantar. Organisations including AISA, NSUI, AISF, MSF, SFI among others joined the protest along with NEET and NET aspirants raising demand for immediate scrapping of NTA and the resignation of Dharmendra Pradhan.

In uproar against the NEET UG 2024 results that was announced on June 4, 2024, which has exposed irregularities and corruption in the conducting of the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) by the National Testing Agency (NTA), AISA activists, and several NEET aspirants and their parents staged protests in New Delhi, Jharkhand, Bihar, Uttarakhand, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and other states.

On June 1, several students-civil society organisations, along with hundreds of the citizens of Delhi and All India Students' Association activists, came together at Delhi's Jantar Mantar demanding an end to Israel's genocidal war against Palestinians in Gaza. The protesters saluted the steadfastness of the people of Gaza and the whole of Palestine in the face of war crimes, massacres and brutality by Israeli forces.

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On April 16, on the call of JNUSU, the students of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) embarked on a university strike demanding immediate action by the administration to ensure gender justice. The students condemned administration’s inaction over a sexual harassment complaint.

Protesting against the notification to discontinue plus-two (intermediate) classes being held in colleges from April 1 issued by the Bihar Education Department, hundreds of students marched to the office ruling JD(U) on March 1. The march was met with heavy police repression, and several students were injured, including AISA activist Hemant Raj in the police lathi-charge. CPIML MLA Rambali Singh condemned the police action and said that the BJP-Nitish government is hell-bent on destroying the lives of students and the education system in Bihar.

Dhananjay of AISA elected JNUSU President

The United Left Panel has emerged victorious in the JNUSU Elections held after a gap of four years on March 22. The results are a decisive mandate against the right-wing ABVP and the politics of communalism and hatred. 

JNUSU elections being organised after a span of four years will be held on March 22 with thousands of students participating in this democratic exercise. In spite of all attempts by ABVP to derail and manipulate the election process the JNU students clinched their democratic right after a long struggle.

Dhananjay from AISA is leading the left panel as presidential candidate with Avijit from SFI as the Vice President candidate, Swati from DSF for the post of General Secretary and Sajid from AISF for the post of Joint Secretary.

The eighth UP state conference of RYA held on 10 March 2024 at Nehru Yuva Kendra in Lucknow elected Thakur Prasad as President and Sunil Maurya as Secretary. The conference underlined the need for a united struggle of youth in the state against Yogi government’s Bulldozer-raj and high unemployment, attacks on reservations, crimes against women and question paper leaks in competitive examinations.

Condemning the attempts to manipulate and steal JNU students' union elections, by the RSS backed ABVP, the AISA JNU unit in a statement on March 13 said that JNU community will give a befitting reply to anti-student organisation.

JNUSU elections are going to take place after a gap of more than four years, with the last union elected in 2019. This was a result of a long struggle by AISA and students’ organisations, forcing the JNU administration to issue notifications for the elections.