Announcing to give a befitting reply to political violence in Kerala and West Bengal besides demanding early announcement of Education policy by the Centre, Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) suggested that students union elections should be made compulsory in colleges and universities under lyngdoh Committee guidelines.
“The student elections should be must for all colleges and universities. In Uttar Pradesh, the government should hold elections in all colleges and varisities on a spcific date so that students were busy and did not interfere in other institutions,” ABVP national general secretary Vinay Bindre said in a press conference in lucknow on Friday.
The ABVP held a three-day long national executive council meeting in lucknow that ended on Wednesday where discussions were held on problems being faced by the student community.
Talking about violence in Kerala and West Bengal against nationalist forces, Bindre said that the national council expressed its concern over killing of 40 people of the outfit in Kerala alone after the new government came to power. Similarly in West Bengal the situation was termed as serious. “The executive has decided that the ABVP whould take up this issue and whould not succumb to any pressure,” he said.
Demanding that girls be given free education besides medical health and agriculture should be made compulsory subjects from primary section, the ABVP urged for early announcement of the Education policy by the Modi government.
“Even after three years, the government is yet to come out with a new Education policy. There is an urgent need for restructuring of University Grants Commission (UGC) to modify the higher education system in the country,” he said.
Bindre said that ABVP will also hold a national survey of the status of girl education in the country with focus on the area along international borders. “We will go for a 50,000 plus sample survey with 10,000 alone from areas near the international borders,” he said.
During their conference which was attended by 344 delegates from all over the country, six resolution were adopted.
The first resolution was for strict action against those white collar people in cities supporting Naxalite and Maoist activities, second was restructuring of the UGC, third was to prevent West Bengal from turning into a centre of Jehadi activity due to appeasement by the state government, to bring national agriculture and health education policies, fourth was condemnation of Marxist violence in Kerala against nationalists, fifth was hailing CM Yogi Adityanath for taking UP to the path of development and finally, youths be made aware about water preservation