Now let us hold the hands together

By
Musthafa and Jamsheel

One more students’ union election has over in our campus without much noise and disturbances. The new students, union body elected with high margin majority. As the last year’s election voters elected all the candidates from the same panel. Out of 4343 total voters 2738 votes were polled, it comes around 63 percentage.
Election held as per the Lyngdoh Committee recommendations 2006, which meant for regulating the students’ politics and controlling students’ union elections in colleges and universities. When we analyzing this years’ election, we can find that the political awareness of the students are really pathetic. It is very dispiriting to know that students from a top ranked university are politically unconscious. Our knowledge should go beyond the back covers of the books and walls of the lab. It gives a wrong message to a society that our future citizens are depoliticized.
Another important factor is the lack of women students’ representation in the panel lists. Out of 14 candidates for General posts, we had only one women candidate. Every party have their own women cadres for campaigning and protest demonstrations, but knowingly or unknowingly we couldn’t find much women representation in their panel list except one women student for the post of cultural secretary. The time exceeded to ask does it sound enough to say that our politics is not male dominated.
The whole mess which happened in the last years’ election might teach some lessons to the student leaders and to the authority. These years’ election seems very peaceful and couldn’t hear any unwanted noise from any corner of the campus. New political formation and changing equations of campus politics might helped to conduct such a peaceful election. Let us congratulate newly elected union members, students’ union election committee, who conducted the election peacefully and transparently and also the students they vote for marking their commitment to the students’ community as a whole.
Now let us forget the political differences, let us hold hands together for our own progress.