Sudents union elections in Rajasthan

The Central Executive Committee of the Students’ Federation of India extends its revolutionary greetings to the students of Rajasthan for giving SFI its biggest ever mandate in the history of students union elections in the state. The CEC of SFI also takes the opportunity to congratulate the Rajasthan state committee of the organisation.

SFI had contested in 156 college and university elections of the state held on 25^th August, 2010. Candidates of SFI won in 224 central posts in these colleges. SFI recorded its win in the President post of 56 colleges. The most notable victory of SFI was registered in the Government Sri Kalyan College in Sikar which happens to be the biggest college in Rajasthan with student strength of over nine thousand students. SFI candidates won in all the four central posts of President, General Secretary, Vice President and Assistant Secretary in this college with a majority of more than thousand votes in all the posts. In the second largest college of the state namely Bikaner Government Dungar college SFI candidates won in the three central posts with a huge majority. SFI candidates won the President post in 56 colleges.

The students’ union elections in Rajasthan have been held after a long gap of six years. It was the SFI which fought consistently against this attack on the democratic rights of the students unleashed by the then BJP government and it’s Chief Minister Basundhara Raje Sindhia. The BJP had banned the union elections in the state.

SFI continued this struggle against the present Congress government also which was unwilling to hold the students union elections despite its earlier promises to do so. Militant programmes from the unit level was conducted and students under the leadership of SFI had gheraoed the state assembly in the demand of student union elections .the fact that the students  union  elections  were held is in itself a very big victory  of the democratic student movement of the state.

Sfi s massive victory in the election is a vindication of the politics of study and struggle which the SFI stands for.

Our comrades in Rajasthan have fought day in and day out to provide an alternative to the bankrupt policies of ABVP and NSUI.

We are confident that the advances which the SFI has made in these elections will continue to grow and SFI will emerge as the biggest organisation in the state.