Student politics and campus election regulation

Student unions as political associations are governed by the Lyngdoh Committee recommendations of 2006, made binding through Supreme Court mandate. These recommendations impose expenditure and age caps on campus elections and are a standard against which compliance at bodies such as DUSU and JNUSU is assessed. Campus unions also function as a recruitment pipeline into party politics. A central concern is how regulatory caps intended to limit money and party capture are circumvented in practice, illuminating associational politics more broadly.