Student politics losing direction, affects college life, opine youth

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Student politics losing direction, affects college life, opine youth

Tuesday, 07 January 2020 | PNS | Dehradun

Following the recent violence that occurred in Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi, many college students in Dehradun feel that student politics has lost direction. Talking to The Pioneer, they shared their views on student politics and how it affects their college life.

“It is my last year in college but I am yet to see a significant change because of student union leaders. I have seen classes getting cancelled at the last moment due to rallies, or fights but never saw anything good coming out of it,” said Preeti Pokhriyal, an under-graduate student.

According to Neha Tiwari, a science student from DAV PG College, “I never realise the existence of student politics when it comes to bring positive changes in students’ lives. We come to know about student politics mostly when there is some political dispute between rivals on the campus or outside, which in turn results in our classes being cancelled.

I don’t remember any student union which has done something positive or even worthy enough to mention or discuss.” Abhishek Chandra, a second year B Com student said, “Whatever happened in JNU is appalling but the rallies or protest against it is just political and not due to any concern for students or teachers who were injured.

 It’s all about who can make more noise and show off their existence to the people around them.” In addition to the students, their parents too are not too happy with student politics.

Harsh Chauhan said, “I drop my daughter to college every morning around 9 AM from Vikasnagar. There’s been hardly a month when there was no day off due to student politics. Sometimes such things go on for weeks and we don’t understand whether we should send our children to college or not. It’s a waste of time, energy and education. I don’t understand what good is served by such nonsense politics.” Most of the students think that student politics have lost its direction and is not really necessary. 

However, some of them have different views about student politics. According to the youth, independent student leaders who do not owe allegiance to any political party do tend to work efficiently.

 Since they do not have the pressure to gain political relevance, they are likely to perform better than others without making any fuss, opined the youth.

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