National Students' Union of India

National Students' Union of India
Abbreviation NSUI
Motto "Secularism, Democracy, Inclusive Development, Social Justice and Nationalism"
Formation 9 April 1971 (1971-04-09)
Type Student Organisation
Legal status Active
Purpose To empower the student community to create responsible citizens and leaders based on the values of democracy, secularism, liberty, quality & equality.
Headquarters 5, Raisina Road, New Delhi
Membership
Over 4 Millions
National President
 Roji M John
Vice President
 Bharat Kumar, Amrita Dhawan, Kumar Raja, Mohit Sharma
General Secretary
 Shahnawaz Shaikh, Gobind Khatra, Gulab Sinh Rajput, Nigam Bhandari, Bhushan Penchalwar, Leni Jadhav, Amit Singh, Ajay Chhikara, Angellica Aribam, Hasiba Amin, Nikhil Dwivedi, Devendra Yadav
Website NSUI

The National Students' Union of India (NSUI) is the student wing of the Indian National Congress party, established on 9 April 1971. The organisation was founded by Indira Gandhi after merging Kerala Students' Union and Chattra Parishad to form a national students' movement. Since its inception, National Students' Union of India (NSUI) has been actively fighting for students' rights.

Membership

In order to become the member of NSUI, one must be under 27 years of age, must be a student, must be a citizen of India, must not be part of any other political organisation and must not have been convicted of any criminal activity in past. [1] NSUI categorises its members in to "Primary Members" and "Active Members". An aspiring member who applies for NSUI Membership, becomes a Primary member after his details are verified through the organisation’s scrutiny process. An aspiring member or an existing Primary member who enrols 10 or more new members from his/her college to the NSUI gets promoted to the level of Active Member after all his details and the details of the members added by him are verified through the organisation’s scrutiny process.[2]

National Presidents of the NSUI

Name Term
P R Kumaramangalam 1971–74
G. Mohan Gopal 1974–76
Geetanjali Maken 1976–77
K.K. Sharma 1977–81
Subhash Chowdhary 1981–82
Ramesh Chenithala 1982–84
Narala Saikiran 1984–86
Manish Tewari 1986–93
Saleem Ahmad 1993–97
Alka Lamba 1997–99
Meenakshi Natarajan 1999–2003
Ashok Tanwar 2003–05
Nadeem Javed 2005–08
Hibi Eden2008–2012
Rohit Choudhary 2012–2014
Roji M John2014–Present

Activities

Controversies

In 2013, the NSUI had several run-ins with Police. In November, two members of the NSUI were injured by police as they attempted to submit a memorandum to the district magistrate.[3] In late November, the NSUI filed a complain with the police against Madhu Kishwar, a writer who ousted the journalist that had been allegedly sexually assaulted by Tarun Tejpal.[4]

In December 2013, the NSUI locked the cafeteria of Kashmir University, after a waiter and cafeteria staff misbehaved with some of its members.[5]

On 23 June 2011, NSUI members demonstrated against the vice-chancellor of Gujarat Technological University in which the VC got injured after some of its activists agitated.[6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ u Membership terms
  2. ↑
  3. ↑ NSUI students lathicharged during protest at inspector's office
  4. ↑ NSUI files complaint against Kishwar for tweeting survivor's name in Tejpal case
  5. ↑ NSUI "politicising" the atmosphere of KU
  6. ↑ "To 'solve' their problems, NSUI assaults Gujarat Technological University V-C". DNA. 23 June 2011. Retrieved 2 May 2014.

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