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better politician. He has been showing is an important figure in the agitations ment or assemblies without any com- against the incident of rape in Jha from the Aam Aadmi Party. His dacy was broken.
a high degree of consistency in his as- of Dalits and backwards of the country. mitment for a change in the politics,” Muzaffarpur shelter home in Bihar, other colleagues also left him in due
sertions and activities. He chooses right Despite the fact that mainstream media Kanhaiya told an audience in Mumbai he was specially called by Tejaswi to course of time. Begusarai: an old Left bastion
kind of issues and acts fearlessly with- has covered him widely, it has ignored a few months back. address it. Other speakers included Kanhaiya comes from an alto- Begusarai is important district of
out any show-off. These qualities will important aspects of his political man- “We must unionize ourselves be- Rahul Gandhi and others. gether different background. He is north Bihar. The area has been a Left
certainly help him to maintain the con- ners. This is largely because of its unfa- cause it is our right as a citizen. This However, there are questions a hardcore cadre of the Left and has bastion for many years now. Till few
sistency he has been showing all along. miliarity with the alternative politics in is necessary if we want to change the which need attention, Can we shown no deviation. He is a member years ago, it was nicknamed as the
Here, we should not miss the point the country. composition of current day politics. ignore our recent experiences with of the National Council of CPI and is Moscow of Bihar. It was a center of
that he has successfully been tran - “We see politics in a very crude Leaders should not come from the po- the leaders like Arvind Kejriwal. It is being seen as an important future of peasant movement before and af-
scending his role as a student leader manner and that is the reason we fail litical class or families; a common man yet to be analyzed as to why he threw the party. He will fight elections only ter the independence. However, the
and involving himself in important to realize the significance of the stu- should have the opportunity to join out all his comrades one by one after his party takes the final deci- Left has not been able to maintain
contemporary agitations. It should also dent politics. Most of our leaders come politics and contribute to the process of after ascending to practically, pow- sion. Common people are hardly its hold over the constituency since
be kept in mind that he is part of ideo- from students’ politics, but they hardly changing the society,” he said. erless throne of Delhi. If such a small aware of the control exercised by mid-nineties. The seat is currently
logically weak organizations like NSUI. endorse joining students’ politics. This Very few have noticed the subtle power can go into one’s head, how Left parties on their cadres. Pub- held by Dr Bhola Singh of BJP. A for-
He is a cadre of All India Student Fed- is because they do not want students to change the Azadi guy has brought into could we expect considerable power lic representatives have to deposit mer CPI MLA, Bhola Singh is unlikely
eration (AISF) where everyone has to do politics independently. This is their the Left politics. He has changed the not invading the senses of a young their salaries in the party fund and to contest owing to his old age and
follow a rigid party line. Here, the cad- selfish attitude. They want us to work as language of the Left as far as its commu- political leader? The mean manoeu- they are given a part of it to spend
res are supposed to work strictly within their chamchas. Students’ leaders also nication with the masses is concerned. vrings applied by Kejriwal against on their personal needs. Even fa-
the limits of the responsibility they choose the same easy path and make He never uses Left jargons the way it his comrades-in-arms must make cilities like accommodation and Kanhaiya has
have been assigned. If you are a stu- themselves subservient to political has been used for many years now. people suspicious. But we should dif- vehicle is used in accordance with
dent leader, you have to carry out the leaders and end up in entering parlia- After so many years, the Left has found ferentiate between the backgrounds the rules of the party. Many leaders changed the
programs chalked out by the a leader who can speak politics the two persons come from. Arvind including AB Bardhan spent their language of the
party for the benefit of students. • Leading skills Former JNUSU leader is set to lead from the front in a non-political language. Kejriwal was working with the gov- lives in one room accommodation
They are expected to take up He has also been able to as- ernment and entered into social provided by the party and died there. Left as far as its
only the issues of students. Any sociate with the new social alli- work through a voluntary organi- These conditions effectively curb communication
deviation from it may invite ance that has emerged against zation. We must keep in mind that individualism.
punishments which may result BJP-RSS combine. After the NGOs are not ideologically driven Moreover, Kanhaiya’s own asser- with the masses
in expulsion from the party. In co-operation of leaders like and they have a work culture that is tions on the issue are also important. is concerned. He
his case, he has to obey the in- Ramvilas Paswan and Ramdas infested with a high degree of indi- He says that he wants to earn his
structions from CPI. There are Athavale and Mayawati ’s losing vidualism. This is the reason Kejriwal livelihood on his own and does not never uses Left
cases in which student leaders part of their relevance, a new threw out his former colleagues in- to be a politician who survives on jargons the way it
were thrown out of the organi- leadership is emerging among cluding Prof Anand Kumar, Prashant the income from politics. “After com-
zation after they were found to Dalits. He is in close associa- Bhushan, Yogendra Yadav and Ajit pleting my studies, I am in search of is generally used
be disobeying the diktat of the tion with this leadership. Since a job. I do not want to make politics
party. Only a few years ago, a the agitation that followed • Earning tips Kanhaiya doesn’t want to the source of my earning,” he told
top leader of SFI U was expelled suicide of Rohit Vemula in the rely on politics for his livelihood media after the news of his candi- poor health. He is also not in good
from the organization follow- Hyderabad Central University, terms with hiss BJP bosses in Patna
ing his disagreement with the he has been in the forefront of and Delhi. Sometimes back, the an-
party over some ideological is- every agitation at campuses. He gry old man had praised Kanhaiya at
sues. Left parties do not allow is, perhaps, the only non-Dalit a public function and termed him as
you to enjoy the luxury of doing leader who wields tremendous future leader.
political activities according to clout among Dalits. Even Rahul The name of RSS ideologue
your own wishes. Gandhi is said to be working and RSS MP Rakesh Sinha is doing
Kanhaiya has been success- with him on issues that concern rounds as a possible BJP candidate.
ful in striking a balance be - Dalits and youth. He is close to His paternal village is just few kil-
tween the rigid party line and leaders like Jignesh Mewani. ometers away from the village Kan-
flexible programs of the agita- His clout among the new haiya belongs to. The constituency
tions he has been participating leadership of the main - will witness a fierce ideological bat-
in. In a very short period, he has stream could be seen in tle if Rakesh Sinha is pitted against
been able to carve out space his involvement in his Kanhaiya. Local BJP people are of
for himself in the mainstream associations with leaders like the view that even if Sinha does not
politics without being a rebel Rahul Gandhi and Tejaswi Ya- contest, the elections will be fought
in the party. Besides becoming dav. Recently, when it came under his command.
an important name in the stu- to be organizing demonstra-
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