JUCSU Election -2025
The landslide victory of the Islami Chhatra shibir-backed panel in the Dhaka University Central Students' Union (Ducsu) election on Tuesday came as a shock to many. (The results of Jucsu polls at Jahangirnagar University, held on Thursday, was pending as of 7:30pm Friday.) Ever since the transition to parliamentary democracy in 1991, our political establishment has gotten used to a musical chair with the Awami League and BNP as the main contenders in national politics. Politics in the public universities reflected those in power; student unions were confined overtly to debates over dining hall menus, dormitory allocations, and cultural activities, and covertly to construction commissions and controlling rented properties in the vicinity. The disproportionate attention given to student polls exposes the political vacuum created by the country's eroded electoral culture. The media's hunger for symbolic contests catapulted student elections to the centre stage, as if they were national referendums.
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Ironically, while the hype pitches student unions as "proxy parliaments," the unions' constitutions limit them to nothing more than a welfare body under the vice-chancellors' authority. Five student representatives of the unions will join the university senates for a year or until their successors step in, provided they have a valid student status. In a changed political landscape, students are likely to seek more stakes in the governance of the universities. Even so, the coverage of these student elections cannot be justified.
On the other hand, The only justification is that these elections are test cases for the interim government, which has promised a just transition to the democratic process. The shrinking space for competitive electoral politics caused by successive national elections being rigged, suppressed, and boycotted has made citizens lose faith in the ballot box. Such a vacuum allowed campus elections as a rare space where voters found agency. The campaigns looked like some rituals to revive democracy from its deathbed. The spectacles created by newspapers, podcasts, and social media platforms satisfied our longing for democracy.
Finally, maximum young voters give them right to pay attention to Shibir. But in future that will be influenced in National Election.
[News collected - The Daily Star]
Everyone young voters so their perception influenced future election no doubt.
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