All India Students Association


All India Students' Association is a left wing student organisation in India. It describes itself as "the voice of the radical students' movement" and is affiliated to the Communist Party of India Liberation. The association was previously affiliated to the Indian People's Front. The association was founded in Allahabad on 9 August 1990 with the merger of several left wing students organisations across India. It has organisational presence in the states and union territories of Delhi, Chandigarh, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Assam, Uttarakhand, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal. N. Sai Balaji is the national president of AISA and Sandeep Saurav is its National General Secretary.

Universities

The students association has presence in various major institutions of higher education in India; such as Patna University, University of Allahabad, Banaras Hindu University, Kumaun University, Jadavpur University, University of Delhi, University of Lucknow, Tata Institute of Social Sciences and Jawaharlal Nehru University HNB Garhwal University among others. A unit of AISA also has consistently won SU elections in Rikhnikhal Degree college, Pauri garhwal Uttarakhand since 2017.
AISA has consistently won in Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union elections since 2006. The victory of AISF in 2016 JNUSU elections were the time when AISA lost its president-ship.
Since 2013, AISA is one of the major left force in Delhi University Students Union elections.

Prominent Leaders

Controversies

In 2016, a senior AISA leader was accused of rape. He was expelled from the students organisation following the accusation. He subsequently surrendered and was arrested by Delhi Police.