“Infightings in the ANNFSU, using weapons to attack each other, creating terror by one faction on the other, using gangsters to threaten rival groups and allowing corrupt, thieves, looters and rapists into the Union have become an increasing trend and tendency in the ANNFSU,” concluded the study.[break]
UML senior leader and former Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal, while inaugurating Pushpalal Library and Study Center at Bag Bazaar last month, expressed his serious disappointment with the party’s youth members.
“I think the youths in our party just go through newspaper headlines and don’t even bother to read the contents of any news item. They deliver speeches the whole day just based on those headlines,” he said while addressing the packed hall.
“I doubt if they fully read a single article, let alone reading books thoroughly,” he added.
The two anecdotes show the pessimistic picture of the student organizations in Nepal because so is the case with the student wings affiliated to other political parties, such as UCPN (Maoist), and Nepali Congress as well.
However, a student leader from ANNFSU, Thomas Bastola, has stood out from the crowd of the student leaders by authoring a book about the history of student politics in Nepal.
The book, entitled “Student Movement and ANNFSU: History, Leadership and Policy,” explores the past of student movements right from the beginning.
Bastola covers the 90-year history of student agitations in Nepal, tracing historical facts and figures since 1924 AD when a group of Nepali students formed the Nepali Student Association in Banaras, India.
The sections that describe some historical movements and organizations – such as Jayatu Sanskritam, All Nepal Student Federation, Nepal Student Association, Nepal Student Association, Sanskrit Student Association Nepal, Young Communist League, the movement to form Free Student Union, Nepal Student Union and its dissolution, and the Inter-College Student Convention – have added value to the book and made it broader.
The book, which is full of facts and figures, not only gives a detailed picture of student movements of the last 90 years but also explains how student agitations are interwoven with broader political movements in Nepal.
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