Under the name ‘United Students of India,’ student organizations—including those connected to INDIA alliance parties—have united to express their opposition to the National Education Policy, 2020. To protest the altered scheme, some sixteen student organizations have called for massive demonstrations on January 12 in New Delhi and February 1 in Chennai.
The recent creation of the Opposition parties’ bloc INDIA is consistent with the alliance of opposition student groupings. ‘The attack on quality education in India is scaling dangerous heights under the current BJP-led union government,’ the United Students of India stated in a statement.
The alliance consists of the following student political organizations: Chhatra Yuva Sangharsh Samiti (CYSS), the student wing of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), National Students’ Union of India (NSUI), All India Students’ Federation (AISF), Students’ Federation of India (SFI), and other tribal and Dravidian student political parties. This group consists of sixteen student organizations in total.
The student front claims that they are planning the march in opposition to the communalization of education, fee increases, NEET, and the New Education Policy 2020. The students chose the catchphrase ‘Save education, reject NEP’ at a joint meeting as a means of criticizing the national government.
To find out more about this front and the march, India Today TV got in touch with Aishe Ghosh, the president of JNUSU and a leader of SFI. ‘We started off as a coordination committee in 2019, and as more student organizations joined, we were able to form the United Students of India,’ Ghosh stated.
‘Students were forced to follow the New Education Policy by the government during the epidemic year. In addition to implementing a contractual system and privatizing public schools, the government is ignoring education,’ according to Aishe. The opposition student leaders claim that this administration has also made communalization of education commonplace, and that this march is their protest against the policies of the government.
Ghosh continued to criticize the government while pointing out that the NEP makes no mention of gender sensitization.
‘We have been condemning the NEP from the very first day when it was introduced, and we will stand against government policies at all stages and in all programs,’ stated Nitish Gaur, National Secretary of NSUI. When queried about the march’s itinerary, the student outfitters said they were in discussions with the administration and were still deciding.
CRJD, DMK Student Wing, DSF, PSF, RLD Chattra Sabha, Samajwadi Chattra Sabha, AISB, and Tribal Students are some of the other student organizations that are a component of the front.
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