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The Interim Student Council Advisory Board (ISCAB) of the Ashoka University Student Government (AUSG) was established as a temporary body to represent the interests of students. It was formed in the wake of inadequate votes in the inconclusive Summer 2026 election cycle held by the Ashoka University Election Commission (AUEC). As the AUEC Monsoon elections approach, The Edict spoke with members of the ISCAB regarding their work over the summer, the challenges of having a trun

At 2:00 pm on Saturday, July 25th, Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan announced via a post on X (formerly Twitter) that he had tendered his resignation.

Someday, in the decades to come, there will be two groups of people in India. There will be the people who remember the student protests of the summer of 2026, and there will be the people who can say ‘I was there’. We, the reporters of The Edict, were there. Jantar Mantar has emerged as the epicenter of the nationwide student protests calling for the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan since the 6th of June 2026. It was also the site for the lathi charge an

On Thursday, June 11th, the Ashoka University Election Commission (AUEC) announced the formation of an ‘Interim Student Council Administrative Body (ISCAB)’. In an email addressed to the entire student body, the AUEC announced that the ISCAB would comprise the “8 representatives who were validly elected through the Student Government elections” earlier this summer. The mandate for the ISCAB (as per the AUEC’s email) is to “assume responsibility for student representation, coo

At 6:00 pm on 20th May, 2026, the Ashoka University Election Commission (AUEC) declared the results of the 2026-27 Ashoka University Student Government (AUSG) re-elections. In an email to students, the commission announced that the required quorum of 40% had not been met for any of the seats being re-contested, including the positions of President and General Secretary, four seats on the Fourth Year Council, and one seat on the Third Year Council.“None of the elections conduc

The results for the Ashoka University Student Government (AUSG) 2026-27 elections were announced at 10:30 PM on Sunday, May 10th by Ashoka University Election Commission (AUEC) via an email to the student body. Horizon candidates Ayush Solapurkar (UG ‘27) and Kriti Chibber (UG ‘28), got the highest vote share for both President and General Secretary posts. However, elections for both posts stand invalid as the “required quorum threshold” of 40% votes was not met. The minimum

Nethra Ramakrishnan (UG'29) reports on the the Ashoka University Student Government (AUSG) presidential debate which was conducted on Sunday, 3rd May, 2026, and hosted by the Ashoka University Election Commission (AUEC) in collaboration with The Edict.

On Wednesday, 6th May, the Ashoka University Election Commission (AUEC) sent out an email detailing violations of the Election Code by the United Students Front (USF) and disqualifying all candidates contesting under their banner. The AUEC statement alleged that USF had continued to put out campaign-related materials well into the silence period (which began at noon on 5th May), in direct violation of Section 7.2 of the Student Government Election Code. Meanwhile, in the ea

Neha S.K (UG '27) covers the annual Accountability Debate 2026, kicking off the election cycle for this year.

Fatema Tambawalla (UG '26) covers recent discrepancies in the procedures of the Ashoka University Election Commission since the start of the Election Cycle 2026.