AFTER
its massive victories in the University
of Calicut, Kannur
University and the
Sanskrit University
at Kaladi, the Students Federation of India (SFI) registered
emphatic wins in
the students union elections in the colleges affiliated to
the University of
Kerala
as well as Mahatama
Gandhi University.
Thus the SFI has won the union polls in all the universities
and technical
institutions of the state with huge margins. The victory in
the Kerala University
and M G University shows the indomitable strength of the
organisation in North Kerala
too.
The
jurisdiction of the Kerala
University is
spread over several districts of North
Kerala, where the SFI has won in 38 out of 46
colleges. It
also bagged 46 university councillor
posts out of 55. Moreover, in 12 colleges, the SFI had had a
clean sweep. It
also registered a regain of its strength in the Government
Women’s College in Thiruvananthapuram,
the capital city, where the SFI had lost a few seats last
year. Surprisingly, the
same media which had gloated last year over the loss of a
few seats by the SFI
remained tight-lipped over this year’s victory. Apart from
this college, the
SFI regained its strength in three more colleges.
In
the Mahatma
Gandhi University,
as many as 72 affiliated colleges out of 88 were won by the
SFI. Last year the
SFI had lost the chairman’s post but has now won it with a
massive margin of
1500 votes. Here
too, the media
displayed the same attitude as it did in case of the Kerala
University.
In Eranakulam, the Kerala Students Union (KSU) which
is the Kerala unit
of the pro-Congress National Students Union of India (NSUI),
could win just a few
college unions including the Sacred Heart College
at Thevara.
The
results of the elections held in Kannur, Calicut,
and Sanskrit
Universities
a few weeks ago also showed
the invincible strength of the SFI. In Kannur the SFI won 34
college unions out
of 40; it moreover won 20 colleges unopposed. As many as 40
SFI activists won
the councillors’ post. In Calicut University the SFI
won 58
colleges out of 87, while 76 councillor posts were also won
by the SFI. In Sanskrit University, the
SFI won in all the eight
colleges, out of which it won four unopposed.
It
is clear that the students community in the state has
rallied under the SFI’s flag,
giving short shrift to the vicious campaign against the
Left. The media and the
right wing forces intensified their campaign in particular
after the death of T
P Chandrasekharan and the recent developments in JNU.
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