DUSU Polls: Throughout a press convention, the scholar physique AISA determined to area candidates for the posts of president and joint secretary, whereas SFI will contest the vice chairman and secretary positions.
NEW DELHI: Left-affiliated College students’ Federation of India (SFI) and the All India College students’ Affiliation (AISA) on Wednesday introduced an alliance for the upcoming Delhi College College students’ Union elections, saying they might struggle towards the “domination of cash and muscle energy” in campus politics.
At a press convention held on the Press Membership of India, the 2 outfits stated AISA will area candidates for the posts of president and joint secretary, while SFI will contest the vice chairman and secretary positions.
The SFI’s Delhi State Secretary Aishe Ghosh stated, “SFI and AISA have been the frontal forces towards the domination of cash and muscle in DU politics.” “Final yr too, our panel polled practically 9,000 votes, asserting a robust third pole in DUSU. This time as effectively, preventing for accessible and high quality schooling, the AISA and SFI will contest on a joint platform of pupil struggles.”
AISA’s DU president Saavy alleged that universities had been going through “an all-out assault” underneath the present dispensation. “The four-year undergraduate programme has diluted the content material and high quality of schooling. There are rabid payment hikes throughout programs and faculties. The current metro fare hike will hit college students the toughest. Each organisations (SFI and AISA) have come collectively to make this election a battle for affordability and high quality within the college,” she stated.
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SFI, AISA alliance
The alliance introduced a “DU Mahapanchayat” on September 2 to press for his or her calls for, which embrace rollback of payment hikes, concessional metro passes for college students, hostel services for all, functioning inside complaints committees in each faculty, and an finish to what they termed “bogus SEC and VAC programs” and the inner evaluation scheme.
Accusing the RSS and ABVP of turning Delhi College right into a “laboratory” over the previous decade, the SFI-AISA leaders stated the alliance would work to defeat the “RSS-ABVP-administration nexus of privatisation and saffronisation of schooling”.
