Ms Ghosh will be fighting on a Communist Party of India (Marxist) ticket and will be supported by the Sanyukt Morcha.
The president of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union (JNUSU), Aishe Ghosh will contest the West Bengal Legislative Assembly election from the Jamuria constituency. She is the first sitting JNUSU president to contest an Assembly election. Ms Ghosh will be fighting on a Communist Party of India (Marxist) ticket and will be supported by the Sanyukt Morcha.
"Will be contesting from Jamuria Legislative Assembly Seat as candidate of the CPI(M) ,supported by the Sanyukt Morcha. Requesting all of your support," she tweeted on Thursday morning. Ms Ghosh was severely injured in an attack on students and teachers of the Jawaharlal Nehru University in January 2020. The images and videos of blood streaming down Ms Ghosh’s face had gone viral. Several masked people had entered the campus with iron rods, glass bottles and had brutally attacked the students and teachers.
West Bengal with 294 member Assembly will go to polls in eight phases from March 27 till April 29 and the results will be declared on May 2. The Left and the Congress are fighting the Bengal election jointly, along with the Indian Secular Front (ISF). Kanhaiya Kumar, also a former JNUSU President, had contested the 2019 Lok Sabha election from Bihar's Begusarai as a Left candidate. He had lost to Union Minister and BJP leader Giriraj Singh by a massive margin.
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