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After 13 years, SFI decides to go it alone

NEW DELHI: Seeking to provide an “alternate model” of the functioning of Delhi University Students’ Union, Students’ Federation of India on Saturday presented their candidates for the September 7 elections. After 13 years, SFI will contest the polls on its own without any alliance with other students’ organisations.

The party’s candidates for DUSU elections are: Natasha Narwal for president; Pankaj Sarma for vice-president; Harish Dubey for general secretary; and Ambika Rai for joint secretary.

“We will be fighting on our own this time because we have grown considerably in Delhi University in the past one year. We are contesting this election in the backdrop of successful struggles in the University on students’ issues.

Last year, the SFI had contested certain college elections too along with the DUSU elections. We had won elections on the post of Secretary at Kirori Mal College, President at Khalsa College and Central Councillor at Deshbandhu College,” said SFI Delhi State vice-president Rohit at a press conference.

“Not only did we provide an alternative model of waging struggles on students’ issues in these colleges but it also resulted in expansion of such a model in other colleges too where we could mobilise students based on such forms of protest which resulted in fulfilment of the demands raised by the student community,” he asserted.

“DUSU has the potential to become a powerful instrument for advancing the rights of the student community as well as reflecting the opinion of students on important issues concerning the people. But the use of money and muscle power, rather than issues and ideology, has dominated the functioning of the DUSU, thanks to the bankrupt politics of power hungry student organisations like the National Student Union of India and the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad,” claimed Natasha, a second year student at Hindu College.

Over the past year the office bearers from the ABVP and the NSUI have consistently failed the student community on important issues, alleged vice-presidential candidate Pankaj.

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