President
Ashutosh Kumar | 28 | PhD, School of International Studies
Originally from Barh, Bihar, where his father's a station-master, Kumar came to JNU in 2009 for a master's in political science. He'd collected a bachelor's degree in the subject at Benares Hindu University which, he says, had "no student politics." "There was casteism, you couldn't challenge the administration and when there was an attempt to start a union, they propped up leaders who were more like class monitors you see in schools," he says, "But now there are a lot of women joining AISA there." "Our agenda will include reducing weightage to viva-voce, fighting the imposition of Lyngdoh Committee recommendations, flood relief for Kashmir and to become the voice of challenge against the reigning communal discourse of BJP," he says. Kumar joined AISA in JNU and along with practicing left-politics, he's studying it too. His thesis is on Comintern's policy toward the Indian communist movement. His family - parents and two siblings - are still right-wingers but he's working on them.
Vice-President
Anant Prakash Narayan | 29 | PhD, Centre for the Study of Law and Governance
Narayan has done eight years in BHU studying law and has nothing good to say about its student politics. He was an AISA member there itself though most of the parcha-distribution and public meetings happened "underground" - as he puts it - and off-campus. "BHU is like a small sample of Indian society with all its issues - sexism, casteism, you name it. Even the guards would harass women there." The best the left can do is "raise awareness." Narayan's from Chandauli, near Benares, and his family - his dad's an office clerk - are right-leaning too. "Our families think we are wasting time here, we should get married. We have to campaign on every front." Narayan is studying the anti-rape law reform in India.
General Secretary
Chintu | 23 | MPhil, Political Science
Chintu - she doesn't use a last name - has impeccable credentials when it comes to left politics. She's from Ara, Bihar, her folks are daily-wagers and social activists involved with the CPI (ML) and she's the first in her family to get a masters' degree. "We have experienced caste repression first hand," she says. However, she did most of her schooling in Delhi - at Kasturba Balika Vidyalaya - and is a graduate of Indraprastha College for Women, Delhi University.
Joint Secretary
Shafqat Hussain Butt | 27 | PhD, School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies
Butt comes from Kishtwar in Jammu and Kashmir. A student of a Jammu University-affiliated college in Kishtwar, the freedom experienced in JNU was deeply unfamiliar when he arrived to study Persian six years ago. There's little present of left-politics back home where his father works with the National Hydro Power Corporation and his siblings - he has three - are all students. "The kind of democratic space you find in JNU is non-existent there," he says, "I joined AISA because of its struggle for the oppressed. And we are oppressed."
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