Politics

What can be done :

The big debate is whether student politics should continue or be banned on the state university campuses. The initial recommendation was to ban student politics for a limited period to get rid of the non-students who generally control student politics of today, and allow time to the real students to settle down in studies.

But this seems to have garnered a negative reaction as many feel that university students have the right to do politics for the purpose of preparing themselves for the future. Banning will never achieve anything. Human nature will never succumb to force or pressure. The more we ban the bigger the problem grows. The solution has to come from within the campus and not by any

governmental decree. It is also a fact that only a small number of the students ultimately join politics on completion of studies.

However, knowledge of politics is important even for those who do not join politics. Thus we must find the way to meet all these conditions, as well as allow the students to continue studies without interruptions.

No Political Parties

The terminologies "Ban", "Block", "Stop", etc. develop confrontational attitude, develop angst. Change is inevitable. The very premise of having campus politics is to instill leadership qualities, team building, collaboration with the college administration in managing hostels, colloquiums, seminars, workshops, etc. What they can ban is mainstream political parties' intervention in the college elections.

The best course seems to be to allow those university students who want to do active politics to join directly any political party of their choice. In other words, these students shall be the active members of the country's respective political parties and could work for those parties, but when they return to campus they must engage in studies and will have nothing to do with party politics. This would mean there would be no student political parties on campus, not even in associated...