The second phase of the campaign will see voting on the issues of education and employment across more than 50 universities.
The All India Students Association (AISA) will carry out a campaign ‘Young India Referendum’ on the issue of education and employment at various universities and colleges across the country on February 7, 8 and 9. The initiative is part of the ‘Young India Charter 2024’ campaign that started in December 2023.
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The BJP is completing ten years of being in power at the Centre, and its unconstitutional nature of governance and communal politics is clearer than ever. We approach the 2024 Lok Sabha elections with deep inequality (both social and economic), unemployment and lack of affordable education staring in the face of the common people of this country.
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Many young people will cast their votes for the first time in the upcoming general elections. At this crucial juncture, AISA launched the ‘Young India Charter 2024’ campaign in December 2023, where in the first phase a massive signature campaign was carried out to demand accountability for the failures of the BJP government on education and employment.
Voting booths will be set up over 30 colleges of Delhi University, all departments of Jamia Millia Islamia and the Kashmere Gate and Karampura campus of Ambedkar University, Delhi. The referendum will be carried out spread over 7th, 8th and 9th of February. A detailed schedule of the venue and date will be circulated before the referendum.
The second phase of the campaign – ‘Young India Referendum’ – will see students from over 50 universities across the country cast their votes on concrete questions of education and employment at their college gates, outside their departments and at booths setup by AISA in student areas.
The Referendum is being carried out from Garhwal Central University (Uttarakhand) Delhi University(Delhi) to Calicut University (Kerala), Jadavpur University (West Bengal) to Punjabi University, and will cover Central University of Tamil Nadu, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, Patna University, Allahabad University, BHU, Jamia Millia Islamia, HCU, SK University and others.
Prasenjeet Kumar, General Secretary, AISA, and Nilasis Bose, President, AISA, stated that, “the central ruling party (BJP) has failed the students and youth of this country and offered only empty rhetoric instead of concrete action to ensure greater access to education. All attempts to sell national assets like Railways and PSUs, contractualization of labour is contributing to youth unemployment.”
But this time, the party workers are setting the agenda for the elections – It shall be fought on issues of education and dignified employment, not on religious issues or on promises of furthering the ‘Hindu Rashtra’! We appeal to the teaching fraternity, civil society organisations and opposition parties to join hands with students and youth in carrying out this referendum!
They further invited several media friends to join at the voting booths on the day of the referendum and witness students and youth unitedly give their mandate and setting the agenda for the forthcoming elections. The AISA also appealed to the teaching fraternity, civil society organisations and opposition parties to join hands with students and youth in carrying out the “referendum”.
