In a night-long debate, conducted in the US presidential debate-style, the aspirants debated on various topics including JNU row, Rohith Vemula suicide and nationalism. Rohith Vemula's suicide, sedition row, nationalism and B R Ambedkar's vision were some of the topics that were part of the high-voltage JNU presidential debate ahead its students' union election. While all the candidates claimed a stake in the movement following Hyderabad University Dalit scholar Vemula's suicide, there was a fight over who follows Ambedkarite politics for installing the visionary's statues on campus. Mohit Pandey, candidate of the "Left unity" alliance, spoke of the celebrated "Stand with JNU" movement and "Occupy UGC" protests. Polling for the keenly contested JNUSU election is scheduled for tomorrow and the counting will begin in the night.

Source: dna September 08, 2016 14:25 UTC