AMUSU:
In the Darkest Recess of their Souls
Students Union activism have been at the root of some of the groundbreaking reforms in India's democratic history. In fact, student leaders have played a significant role in some the major social, economic and political movements. The unforgettable achievements of such students leaders are undeniable.
To my mind, there are few rationale and sound goals for conducting student union elections:
(a) for discovery of truth and removing obstacles of the students by open discussion;
(b) free speech by conscience and as an aspect of self-fulfllment;
(c) expressing belief, political attitude, explicit representation of the institution nationally and internationally.
(d) active and sacrosanct participation in democratic life of the community.
Thus, AMUSU is all about the commandation of the efficacy, values, hallmark of establishing an egalitarian community. Moreover, its elected leaders are expected to have a robust analytical understanding of contemporary political affairs.
In this context, many a time, crossing Lakshaman Rekha has both been justified and welcomed by the students under certain exceptional circumstances. What many of AMU students barely acknowledge is that AMUSU have been transmuted into a hard regionalism, sectarianism and communalism which is callous to, an unforgivable offense, and sometimes even at war with students from other regions or states. Thus, in this fearsome face and undeclared campus and department wise epidemic of hate, decisive and destructive students politics, I find the malign role of university administration as well. Why AMUSU failed in producing the living embodiment of students representative? Why the elected candidates do not even staunchly stand to make a reasoned and substantial argument in the mainstream media? Why AMUSU has been hegemonized by exclusionary identification of regional and communal identity? In this four years of my student life in AMU, I realized that AMUSU found itself in the quagmire due to its internecine faction fued. The time, therefore, to remain a mute spectator has gone. If the students of this highly prestigious institution take a drastic step in order to insulate AMUSU from the elected autocrats and peurile representatives, we would definitely be able to restore the lost glory and we would certainly nip the upcoming 2019 elections trouble in the bud. It is high time to uphold the students union integrity and inspires general students confidence. If the students of this incredible institution do not wake up from their sound sleep, 'history in making' would manifestly include us among conspirators and destructors of AMUSU's real identity. As a consequence, History, unspeakably, will take revenge for the virulence of hate politics from ALIG.
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