People's Democracy

SFI CEC Hails JNU Victory

CONGRATULATING its Delhi state committee and JNU unit committee, the Central Executive Committee (CEC) of the Students Federation of India saluted the JNU students on ensuring the SFI-AISF victory and the utter defeat of the communal ABVP, while isolating the opportunist NSUI in the JNUSU election.

It will be noted that Rohit of the SFI got 1,175 votes, defeating his nearest ABVP rival by 450 votes in these elections. Other elected to the key posts are Parimal Maya Sudhakar (SFI) as vice president, Shamshad Ahmad Khan (AISF) as general secretary and Ena Panda (SFI) as joint secretary. The SFI-AISF victory gave a sharp rebuff to campus pollsters in search of an anti-incumbency factor. The margins varied from 350 to 450 despite a sharp drop in voter turn out.

The SFI CEC said the SFI-AISF victory is not only a victory for the JNU students but a step further towards the victory of the entire mass of secular, democratic and patriotic students of the country in their struggle for a better society and a better world. Living true to their heritage and tradition of protest and struggle, the JNU students have ensured the communal and pro-fascist ABVP’s ignominious defeat. They have not only decried the communalisation and commercialisation of education resorted to by the BJP-led NDA regime, but also gave a drubbing to the communal fascist ideology of the RSS-headed Parivar. The NSUI’s feeble and opportunistic stance vis-à-vis the ABVP has ensured its complete washout in the polls. Similar has been the fate of the AISA which, in pursuit of its narrow political ambitions, resorted to attacking and weakening the SFI-AISF combine that has been the bulwark of secular, democratic and patriotic students in the campus against the communal forces.

The SFI CEC said an immediate task of the JNU students would be to further strengthen and consolidate the struggle of the country’s student masses against the drive to communalise and commercialise education and to thwart the communal fascist forces in the country as a whole. (INN)