The Alliance for Social Justice (ASJ), which swept the students’ union elections in the University of Hyderabad (UoH) recently, has resolved to take forward the Rohith Vemula movement and the fight against “fascist forces”.
“The alliance itself is a message to carry forward the movement. We will continue to fight for the (demand for) Rohith Act (to end discrimination in educational institutions),” Sreerag P, who was elected the president in the last week’s polls, told PTI.
The Alliance for Social Justice comprising Students’ Federation of India (SFI), Ambedkar Students’ Association (ASA), Dalit Students’ Union (DSU) and few other groups, had swept the student union elections in the University of Hyderabad (UoH) for 2017-18.
The ASJ bagged all the major posts, including that of president, general secretary, joint secretary and cultural secretary in the elections held on September 21.
The ASJ candidates defeated the ABVP-OBCF combine by comfortable margins. The National Students’ Union of India (NSUI), student wing of the Congress, was also in the fray.
Sreerag, a member of the Ambedkar Students’ Association, said the outcome of the elections was a “message to the entire nation” that the way forward was to unite against the “fascist forces”, an apparent reference to the BJP-RSS combine.