National Students’ Union of India

The National Students’ Union of India (NSUI) is the student wing of the Indian National Congress. According to Wikipedia, it was founded on 9 April 1971, when Indira Gandhi merged the Kerala Students’ Union and the West Bengal Students’ Union. Its headquarters are at 5 Raisina Road, New Delhi.

Congress appointed Vinod Jakhar as NSUI national president on 20 February 2026, replacing Varun Choudhary, ThePrint reported. In June 2024 NSUI members protested at the National Testing Agency office in Delhi over irregularities in NEET-UG 2024, and on 5 December 2024 it marched to Parliament over paper leaks, unemployment and scholarship cuts, when police detained Choudhary and about 100 members, according to Wikipedia.

NSUI is in the news because it announced a dharna outside Uttarakhand Bhawan in Delhi on Monday, 16 November 2026, over the Haldwani case, in which police have arrested four accused. Jakhar said the union would not let the BJP government in Uttarakhand bury the case. NSUI wants an independent, time-bound investigation, protection and legal aid for the survivor and her family, and a public statement from the ABVP on one of the accused. These are the union’s demands, and the Uttarakhand government had not responded in the reports reviewed.

Sources: Wikipedia, ThePrint, The Tribune