SFI sweeps Himachal University Students Union Election

Student Federation of India (SFI) has once again swept all the four seats at the Himachal Pradesh University campus, giving a big jolt to the ABVP, which had tried to gain popularity among students in the state this time by taking on the state BJP government on the issue of private universities and commercialisation of education. 

SFI also sweeped the posts of departmental representatives where it’s candidates won on 33 seats while ABVP managed to win 11 seats.Congress backed NSUI got a drubbing in the elections when none of it’s panel candidates could muster three digit votes in the SCA elections. 

Earlier this year, the Congress national general secretary Rahul Gandhi had visited HP University campus to mobilise membership for NSUI and Youth Congress. But the NSUI could not even manage a minimum of 100 votes each for four of its candidates,

SFI CEC congratulate students on HPU poll victory

The SFI Central Executive Committee extends its revolutionary greetings to the students of Himachal Pradesh for giving the SFI a sweeping victory in the Students’ Union Elections held in the state.

In the results declared yesterday the SFI has once again emerged victorious in the prestigious HP University in Shimla. Not only has the SFI won all four posts, the victory margins have increased significantly in all four posts. The results given below clearly show the increasing support for the SFI among the students in Himachal Pradesh University.

President                Khushi Verma          Victory Margin 449 (Last Year 406)

Vice President        Vipin Mehta             Victory Margin 292 (Last Year 182)

General Sec.           Sunita Ranot           Victory Margin 330 (Last Year 210)

Joint Sec.              Ankush Mandial        Victory Margin 443 (Last Year 378)

Total Department     43                          SFI  has won 33        (Last Year 28)

The SFI has swept the elections in Shimla District in all colleges except Sanjoli College. In the R K M V Girls College, the most renowned Girls’ College in the state, the SFI has won the President’s post by a margin of over 600 votes along with all central posts. The SFI  has  got elected  in Kotshera, Theog,  Chakmoh, HPU Evening college, Sarkaghat, Bangana, DAV Kangra ,  Baijnath , Rajpura , Chamba, Chowari,  . The SFI has won the post of president in Rampur, Jogendernagar as well.

The elections results are a fitting rebuff to the BJP State Government which had unleashed massive repression against the SFI to help the ABVP win the elections. The leadership of the SFI was implicated in false cases including those under Section 307 was used to put our comrades behind bars. In Hamirpur the SFI leadership was booked under Section 307 three times within a week! 

SFI Central Executive Committee member and Himachal Pradesh state President Vikram Singh was attacked physically by ABVP goons while campaigning in Dharamshala of Kangra district.

But even this blatant misuse of state power has not been able to stop the SFI from emerging victorious. The Comrades of SFI in Himachal and our elected representatives in Students’ Unions have shown over the past years that only the SFI is capable of fighting for the rights of Students in the state. 

These elections have also been a slap in the face of the NSUI which has been acting as a stooge of Congress. None other than Rahul Gandhi himself had gone to campaign for the NSUI in HPU Shimla. Speaking in a seminar in the university he had asked the students to support the NSUI for making “Bharat Nirman” a success. The NSUI has finished third in the elections with no NSUI candidate polling more than hundred votes. Out of the 43 Department Representatives the NSUI has failed to get even a single seat. These results should convey a clear message to the hollow politics which Mr. Rahul Gandhi and others are trying to sell in the name of “Youth Power”. The SFI Central Executive Committee congratulates the Himachal Pradesh SFI for this splendid success in the elections.  

The Himachal Pradesh Election results have come immediately after the students union election result in Rajastahan where elections were held after a gap of 6 years. SFI has got its biggest victory in the election held in Rajasthan as well.

The results of Rajasthan and Himachal indicate the growing discontent within the student community against the anti-student policies of this government and they also mark the rejection of ABVP’s bankrupt and divisive politics, which cannot provide an alternative to these attacks. 

We also feel that unless Students’ Union Elections are held in all educational institutions democratic rights of the students cannot be defended and advanced. While congratulating the comrades from Himachal and Rajasthan the SFI CEC will start a determined and militant struggle across all campuses to demand holding of Students’ Union Elections.