NLU elections are already political, in the sense of ideology. In general, left-wing candidates win hands won. I have never heard of a RW candidate winning. However, ironically, the same left candidates and their supporters generally end up working for firms like CAM and advancing the cause of capitalism and the BJP.
It's not ironical if you just see it for what it is: people having to participate in the society (because what else would one do?) while willing to improve it.
Would have shared the famous comic on this point, as I have done countless times on this website before, but ever since LI has updated its UI, it seems images cannot be embedded anymore.
You already charge people for it in the form of taxes, cesses, duties, tolls, and so on. Nothing is free. Medical care, public infrastructure, law and order - they all cost money, and this money is not created out of think air. Just because the cost is not easily visible does not mean it is absent. In the usual modern system, everyone who earns or spends money in a nation's economy pays for its public expenditure.
Be it ABVP or NSUI, we need political student unions at NLUs, because that is the only way corrupt admins will take students seriously. For example, look at Karnataka State Law University: the students slapped Ishwar Bhat and splashed ink on his face. He resigned out of fear. At NUJS, they tolerated his misdeeds for over 10 years.
I will tell you the truth. The BJP's biggest support base are the urban middle-class. The youth section of this class all go by the policy "Chup chap Kamal Chhap". It means they pretends to be anti-BJP in public to sound intellectual and be accepted by woke elites (or they just keep quiet about politics) but in the secrecy of the polling booth, they vote for the BJP. Looking at NLUs, most people are urban middle-class youth and most of them follow this principle.
That was several years back. In the subsequent state assembly election before which modi-shah came with a lot of fanfare and said all of that, they performed really badly despite all the anti-incumbency feeling against TMC. That's because BJP has not really done anything to improve the lives of general people in the last decade. Only shouts about religion and divisiveness and makes life easier for its crony capitalists.
And would it vary from NLU to NLU?
Would have shared the famous comic on this point, as I have done countless times on this website before, but ever since LI has updated its UI, it seems images cannot be embedded anymore.
All these are freebies, no?
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