Student-Youth

AISA observed its 13th Foundation Day on 9 August 2019 with a rally in Samastipur after which the open session of its 13th Bihar State conference began at the Law College. After garlanding the Bhagat Singh statue, thousands of activists marched from the Bhagat Singh memorial with flags, banners, placards and slogans through the city and reached Ambedkar memorial where they garlanded the statue of Ambedkar. The rally reached Law College and culminated in the open session of the AISA State conference.

THE Loksabha Election of 2019 has been declared. The Youth is going to play a crucial role in electing the next government. Thousands of Youth had participated in Young India Adhikar March on 7th February asking the government to respond to the demands by the end of February. But like last five years, no response was received from the government. In this context, the Young India National Coordination Committee held a meeting on 17th February. On 18 February,  a Press Conference was held at Press Club of India by YINCC.

THE 9th All India Students Association (AISA) Uttar Pradesh conference was held at Allahabad on 3 March 2019. The conference elected a 21 member executive council with Shiva Rajwar (State Secretary) and Shailesh Paswan (State President). Other elected office bearers are Nitin Raj and Shakti Rajwar (Vice Presidents), Shivani Jaiswal and Vivek Kumar Singh (Joint Secretaries).

THE 7th Revolutionary Youth Association Bihar State Conference was held on 23-24 February 2019 at Darbhanga with the call for affordable education and dignified employment for youth. Hundreds of students and youth participated enthusiastically in the conference which was preceded by a motorcycle rally and garlanding of statues of Shaheed Bhagat Singh, Dr Ambedkar, people’s poet Nagarjun and Communist leader Comrade Bhogendra Jha.

THE All India Forum for Right to Education (AIFRTE) organized a massive Shiksha Hunkaar rally in Delhi on 18 February. The rally began with a protest demonstration at Parliament street which was addressed by Prof. Anil Sadgopal, CPIML PB member Kavita Krishnan, CPI (M) PB member Brinda Karat, RJD spokesperson Prof. Manoj Jha, Prof.

RESPONDING to a joint call by AISA and RYA, 29 January 2019 was observed as Protest Day against the Modi government’s incessant attempts to end reservation for SC/ST/OBC in education and employment. Thousands of students, youth, and AISA-RYA activists protested across the country, calling for acceleration of the struggle against the eviction of the ‘bahujan’ from educational institutions and the increasing attacks on the Constitution.

STUDENTS and youth from across the country and from more than 60 organisations flooded Delhi with their banners and posters at the Young India Adhikar March from Red Fort to Parliament Street where a massive public meeting was held.

AT a meet organised by the Young India Coordination Committee on 22 January 2019, journalists, intellectuals, lawyers, professors, and activists from various fields expressed their solidarity with the Young India Adhikar March to be held on 7 February 2019 from the Red Fort to Parliament.

A student-youth convention was organized under the ‘Young India Adhikar March’ banner on 21 January 2019 at the Lohiya Mazdoor Bhavan in Narhi (Hazratganj) which was attended by students and youth from Universities and educational institutions of the capital as well as from rural areas.

THE 23rd AISA Allahabad University conference began at the Irom lawns on 17 January 2019, Rohit Vemula’s 3rd martyrdom day, with recollections of his struggles and martyrdom and 2 minutes’ silence in his honour.