- 바카라The new student leaders have revived the culture of asking questions,바카라 says Syed Naseer Hussain, MP.
Kanhaiya Kumar is the CPI candidate for Begusarai in Bihar. If student leaders are asking probing questions today, credit goes to this young man who looked Narendra Modi in the eye, feel JNU student leaders.
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Kanhaiya Kumar, who was catapulted to fame with his widely televised February 2016 speech at Delhi바카라s JNU on returning from Tihar jail, where the then JNU students바카라 union president had been held under charges of sedition, has since emerged as one of the most heard voices against the ruling BJP and PM Narendra Modi. As the CPI candidate for Begusarai in Bihar, the 32-year-old native of the constituency has now drawn into his campaign other former JNUSU presidents, who have forsaken ideological nuances and rallied around him.
Syed Naseer Hussain, who led the JNUSU in 1999-2000 and is now a Rajya Sabha MP from the Congress, believes Kanhaiya has been largely successful in articulating the contemporary concerns of society within the CPI바카라s ideological framework. 바카라The new student leaders have revived the culture of asking questions and the people will decide whether the questions are right or not. I want the candidate from our mahagathbandhan to win, but I must give Kanhaiya his due,바카라 says Hussain, who completed his PhD from JNU in 2003, quit the CPI(M)-affiliated SFI to join the Congress youth wing and rose up its ranks to become the national secretary. 바카라Even if you don바카라t get elected, if you raise people바카라s issues well, Parliament will be forced to take it up,바카라 he adds.
According to V. Lenin Kumar, who helmed the union during 2012-13, one learns in JNU that contesting elections is not the only way of doing politics. 바카라A social movement is also politics. I contribute to politics by teaching,바카라 says Lenin, who teaches policy and government at MIT World Peace University in Pune. He was expelled from the SFI after he opposed the CPI(M)바카라s decision to support Pranab Mukherjee for the post of India바카라s President. He went on to float the Democratic Students Federation along with some other former SFI activists and was elected JNUSU president under the new banner. He says he would have loved to participate in Kanhaiya바카라s campaign, but could only contribute financially.
Among those who managed to make it to Begusarai is Albeena Shakil, who was JNUSU president in 2001-02. 바카라Kanhaiya has emerged as an articulate and courageous voice of opposition that captures the people바카라s democratic aspirations. He speaks for the poor, the women and the youth. I am confident he바카라ll win,바카라 says Albeena, who teaches English at Jindal Global Law School. Kanhaiya바카라s fight holds a special significance for her that goes well beyond the immediate context of Begusarai. 바카라He is showing the world that JNU is not some kind of island. There has been an accusation against us for a long time that JNU politics can바카라t strike a chord with people outside, and that it바카라s not practical. It has been disproved time and again. It is being done once more in Begusarai even as we speak,바카라 she says, adding that doing politics in JNU makes the student alive to a lot of issues from across the country, as the university has an incredibly diverse social composition with students from all parts of India coming to study there.
So what about the right-wing student leaders from JNU? What is their take on Kanhaiya바카라s latest fight? Sandeep Mahapatra, the only JNUSU president so far from the ABVP, the student wing of the RSS, says he would prefer a candidate with 바카라nationalist credentials바카라 over Kanhaiya. 바카라JNU brotherhood is not above the country바카라s interests. If there are former JNU students who share the ideology I believe in and run for Parliament, I would certainly support them,바카라 says Mahapatra, who headed the union in 2000-01.
A native of Kalahandi in Odisha, he now runs his own law firm and is also the RSS media in-charge for Delhi. Pointing out that not everybody can join full-time politics because of reasons ranging from personal to circumstantial, Mahapatra says, 바카라Most JNU students come from various parts of the country. It is not easy to go back to where you came from and establish yourself politically there in this age of competitive politics. Yet, we all contribute in our own ways. I was general secretary of the Akhil Bharatiya Adhivakta Parishad (RSS-affiliated lawyers organisation) for three years.바카라