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| Congress backed NSUI 'to float students' union' | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Srinagar Oct 29:Congress scion Rahul Gandhi may have brushed aside the allegations about launching a membership drive of his party’s youth wing in the University of Kashmir. However, contrarily the Congress-backed National Students’ Union of India (NSUI) is planning to start a students’ body at the varsity, sources allege.
The KU administration during the tenure of former Vice Chancellor Riyaz Punjabi had launched a massive drive against student activism.
Sources say NSUI in collaboration with the University administration is planning a Delhi tour of fifteen students from various departments beginning October 31 this year.
The itinerary of five-day tour from NSUI, a copy of which is with Kashmir Dispatch, mentions the name of students from various departments.
Sources claim the tour, in which students are scheduled to meet various Congress leaders, has been kept under wraps by the administration to ‘covertly’ push NSUI’s agenda to float a students’ body.
According to the itinerary after reaching New Delhi, the students would have tea with Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal. The Vice Chancellor Prof Talat Ahmad is also scheduled to attend the tea party.
A picture of the itinerary of 5-day Delhi tour that KU 15 students are scheduled to undertake from October 31.
Sources in the administration say the nod for the tour was given by the VC during a meeting held recently. "Contrary to the decision, the VC had stated the he would think over the demand of banned KUSU members to allow them to carry out the activities of the union," sources claimed.
Besides meeting various leaders including Minister of State for Home Jatinder Singh and Minister for Rural Development, the students would also visit the University of Delhi North Campus- considered to be a bastion of NSUI.
The sources say the recently elected NSUI members would take KU students for a tour of the campus and talk about their political activities. “This is an attempt to form a liaison with the Kashmiri students to form the union at the University of Kashmir in future,” they add.
Surprisingly, the varsity didn’t take into confidence the ‘apolitical’ students group of class representatives which was formed recently to work in tandem with the Student Welfare Department.
One of the members from the 150-member CR body expressed surprise saying they have not been kept in loop.
The University Registrar had come up with a statement during Gandhi's visit that there shall be no membership drive on the campus. However, the sources raised question that if the University was against any political activity then how is Congress backed NSUI part of the tour.
Pertinently, Gandhi, during his interaction at the KU, had asked some students to visit Delhi and promised to take them to ministries and share concerns with them.
KU, the highest seat of learning in the Kashmir valley, has been continuously in news mostly for wrong reasons in the recent past. Although former VC had served at the Jawahar Lal Nehru University- considered to be a bastion of student activism, he seldom approved of it while being at the helm of affairs here. Student leaders within and outside Kashmir charged him of ‘shrinkage the space for activism.’
Student politics was banned in KU soon after insurgency erupted in the state. However, after a long battle with the authorities, Kashmir University Students Union (KUSU) was formed in 2007. The university recognized KUSU and Kashmir University Research Scholars Association (KURSA) and facilitated elections to the two unions.
However, last year in July, the office of KUSU was sealed and later leveled during a night operation.
The move, that many claim had former VC’s patronage, triggered massive protest with majority of students protesting and boycotting classes. Interestingly, the crackdown was against the Apex Court orders that called for formation of student unions in every varsity in India.
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