Tribune News Service
Srinagar, November 27
Disbanded Kashmir University Students Union (KUSU) today organised a daylong anti-poll programme on the university campus titled “Discourse beyond elections”.
Hundreds of students assembled near Allama Iqbal Library on the KU campus and raised slogans against participation in elections.
Members of the union urged the students not to participate in the electoral process. They said at a time when serious human rights violations were being committed across the state, participation in elections would be a futile exercise.
This is for the first time that a KU faculty member, Mohammad Yusuf Ganai from the History Department, KU, is contesting the elections from the Shangus constituency in Anantnag as an Independent candidate.
Former Vice Chancellor Talat Ahmad had banned all political activities inside the campus although several mainstream political parties have formed their student wings in KU.
Various separatist and mainstream leaders also visited the KU campus which was also frowned upon by the KU management.
The banned students’ union of Kashmir, however, has been mobilising the students in the university and has also urged VC Khursheed Andrabi to lift the ban on students’ union on the campus.
A first: This is for the first time that a KU faculty member, Mohammad Yusuf Ganai from the History Department, KU, is contesting the elections from the Shangus constituency in Anantnag as an Independent candidate
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