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`Money power will not be allowed to overrule merit'

Staff Reporter

ALAPPUZHA: Communist Party of India (CPI) leader Veliyam Bhargavan has said that nobody should think that they could threaten the Government for the steps taken to control commercialisation of education in the State.

Inaugurating a public meeting organised in connection with the 70th anniversary celebrations of the formation of AISF here on Saturday, Mr. Bhargavan said money power would not be allowed to overrule merit in professional colleges. He said the problems in the education sector should be approached with the interests of the poor in mind.

He observed that the students' movement in the State would not bow its head to anybody and the AISF had the will power to withstand any coercive action. Criticising the opinion that students did not have the right to form unions affiliated to political parties, Mr. Bhargavan said those who criticised student politics forgot that students asserted their political rights in the country as a part of freedom movement.

When the nationalist movement was confined to intermittent agitations and prayers, petitions and occasional outburst of protest, it was the student unions and youth organisations that organised more effective protests during the freedom struggle, said Mr. Bhargavan. He observed that it was Jawaharlal Nehru as the Congress president who first provided guidance to the AISF. The AISF, later, made notable contributions to the freedom movement, he said.

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