Friday, October 26, 2012

SFI Sweeps Hyderabad Central University Polls

Students Federation of India swept the polls in the election to students union of Hyderabad Central University. SFI bagged all major executive posts in the Union including President, Vice President, General Secretary Joint Secretary and GS CASH with a clear majority defeating its major opponent ABVP and opponents like NSUI, Telangana Students Association etc.

SFI candidates, Amjad Basha(President) , Vasista Reddy (Vice President), Arvind Kumar (General Secretary) and Vani Prashamsa (Joint Secretary),Uma Bharathi (Gender Sensitivity Committee Against Sexual Harassment,GS CASH) registered their victory by securing a total of 1084, 1082, 1030, 1117 respectively `with a clear margin of 21, 220, 37, 120, 25 votes.

NSUI and Ambedkar Students Association (ASA) alliance came third and Telangana Front stood fourth in these polls, results of which were declared just now.

SFI approached the elections with a clear cut manifesto upholding its uncompromising stand against the privatisation and commercialization of education and its unparalled zeal to preserve  the secular fabric of the campus. Reacting to the victory, SFI unit committee stated that the mandate proves a strong message against the communal politics of ABVP and the neo-liberal education policies followed by the UPA government.
 
During the last two years SFI contested  Students Union polls in alliance with ASA. However this year SFI went alone on the basis of the struggles it waged against the unjust policies of university administration in matters related to increase in hostel fees and the scrapping of BBL fellowships for the students which it could successfully resist through its pertinent role in the Students Union. SFI HCU unit committee thanked the student community for the support.

Both SFI and DYFI state committee congratulated newly elected SFI representatives in the students union.