The first Kashmiri girl, Shehla Rashid Shora made it to the position of Vice-President in the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union Central panel on Sunday.
A candidate of left-backed All India Students Union (AISA), was sworn in as the JNU Students Union (JNUSU) Vice-President amid shouts of “lal salaam” here while she said the political space in her State was “too restricted”.
The engineer-turned-activist polled 1,387 votes, maximum by any candidate this year. She trumped BJP youth wing ABVP’s Valentina Brahma by 234 votes.
“After studying engineering and management, I entered the corporate world only to be disillusioned by it. Turning an activist, I raised issues of juvenile justice and acid attacks in Kashmir but I found the political space there too restricted,” she said.