For the primary time, a Muslim lady has been put ahead by Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) for the November 9 pupil union elections on the College of Hyderabad.
Shaik Aayesha will face Mohammed Ateeq Ahmed of the SFI-ASA-TSF alliance in an try to develop into president.
That is the primary time that two minority candidates have confronted off for the highest place within the union on the central college.
From Visakhapatnam, Shaik Aayesha is pursuing a PhD in Chemistry. Ahmed lives in Hyderabad and is a PhD candidate.
Prajwal Gaikwad, the outgoing president, was a member of an alliance led by the Ambedkar Scholar Affiliation (ASA), with SFI and TSF as further companions.
TSF is the Tribal College students Federation, and SFI is the CPM pupil wing of the College students’ Federation of India.
The 24-year-old Aayesha, who joined ABVP in 2019, acknowledged in an interview with TOI on Monday that the group has all the time been “pro-minority”.
She was the one candidate chosen by ABVP to emphasise that they don’t seem to be anti-minority.
“ABVP is, if anything, pro-India and pro-minority. They back any minority that prioritizes and supports the country. I’ve been a state executive member of the ABVP since I was pursuing my master’s degree at Central Tribal University in AP, which proves that they support Muslim women in leadership positions,” Aayesha insisted.
If elected, she acknowledged that her primary purpose can be to make it possible for the College of Hawaii follows the Nationwide Training Coverage 2020 in letter and spirit.
She additionally plans to help within the institution of a tutorial middle on campus devoted to “Samajika Samarasya” or social concord.
“Our focus will be on minority, SC/ST, OBC students’ welfare and ensure that they have access to all academic opportunities through this centre,” Aayesha stated.
Ateeq, her opponent and chief of the coalition led by SFI, refused to simply accept it. Aayesha’s choice, he insisted, was merely ‘representation politics’.