All India Students' Federation

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All India Students' Federation
AbbreviationAISF
Formation12 August 1936(87 years ago) (1936-08-12), Lucknow, United Province, British Raj
Type Student organisation
Purpose Scientific socialism [1]
Headquarters4/7, Asaf Ali Road, New Delhi-110002, India [2]
Location
President
Vicky Mahesari
General Secretary
Dinesh Sreerangaraj
Main organ
Student's Action [3]
Affiliations
Website aisf.org.in

The All India Students' Federation (AISF) is the oldest student organisation in India, founded in 1936.

Contents

Pre-independence

AISF was founded on 12 August 1936, with guidance and cooperation from the Indian independence movement. [4] [5] The foundation conference of the AISF was held at Ganga Prasad Memorial Hall in Lucknow, with 936 delegates from across India. [6] The conference was inaugurated by Jawaharlal Nehru, and presided over by Muhammad Ali Jinnah. The conference resolved to establish an All India Students' Federation, and Prem Narayan Bhargava was elected as the first general secretary. [6]

The second conference of the AISF was held three months later, beginning on 22 November 1936 in Lahore. It mainly discussed and adopted the constitution of the AISF. The conference was attended by about 150 delegates under the presidency of Sarat Chandra Bose. The conference was also addressed by Govind Ballabh Pant. It passed a resolution condemning the intervention by Nazi Germany into the affairs of Republican Spain. The conference also agreed to affiliate the AISF with the World Students' Association.

Hemu Kalani, an AISF leader, was arrested by the British army in 1942 for leading the Quit India Movement, and publicly hanged in 1943 at the age of 19. AISF leader Kanaklata Barua was another student leader who died participating in the fight for independence. [7]

An AISF delegation visited the Bengal state during the famine of 1943 and engaged in relief activities. [8]

During the Royal Indian Navy mutiny in Bombay in February 1946, the AISF helped to mobilise students in support of the Naval Ratings. [7]

AISF in independent India

After independence, the AISF concentrated its activities mainly on educational issues, anti-imperialism and anti-feudalism, providing a platform for student unity against common threats. The AISF played a central role in the Telangana Rebellion against the Nizam of Hyderabad. [9]

The AISF continued to fight for Indian unity with the Goa liberation movement. Satyagrahis from across India entered Goa on 15 August 1955 and were fired upon. 23-year-old Karnail Singh Benipal was killed when he tried to save his leader V.D. Chitale. [10] The general secretary of the AISF, Sukhendu Mazumdar, was present with AISF leader C. K. Chandrappan on 15 August at the Goa border to help the student satyagrahis. [11]

The AISF participated in the Kothari Commission report, which provided the basis for broad educational reforms in India. [12]

In the 1980s, during the Khalistan movement, the AISF, under the leadership of General Secretary Satyapal Dang, received armed training to counter Khalistan militants. [13] Harpal Mohali, the AISF leader from Mohali, led movements in Panjab University. In response to his attempt to counter Khalistan, Mohali was shot by militants and left paralysed. Many AISF activists were killed fighting against Khalistan separatism. [13]

State-level presence

The AISF has a strong presence in Kerala, Bihar, West Bengal, Tripura, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka,Rajasthan, Assam, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, New Delhi, and Punjab, and in most universities in the country.

After several decades, Chayan Ganguly re-established the AISF unit at the Presidency University, Kolkata in 2019. [14]

Activities

Protest and demands

Other social work

The AISF runs Sramajibi Canteen and is involved in various other social work. [35]

LGBT issues

The AISF actively supports LGBT rights. In 2022, AISF state committee member Nadira Mehrin became the first transgender person to contest in a student union election at Kerala University, [36] [37] and also contested as the AISF candidate for chairperson of Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit (SSUS), the first time a transgender person had led a candidates' panel for a university election in the state. [38] [39] [40]

Motto and organisational structure

The organisation's original motto, reflecting its focus on peace, progress and scientific socialism, was "Freedom, Peace and Progress". This was amended at the 1958 National Convention, and the motto since then has been "Study & Struggle". [41]

The administrative structure of the federation includes:

  1. National executive body
  2. State executive body
  3. State administrative body
  4. District administrative body
  5. Block level committee
  6. Institutions level unions

AISF National Conferences

National ConferenceYearPlaceGeneral SecretaryPresident
1
(Founder Conference)		12–13 August 1936Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh)Prem Narayan Bhargava
222 November 1936LahorePrem Narayan Bhargava
31–3 January 1938MadrasAnsar Harvani
41–2 January 1939CalcuttaM.L.Shah
51–2 January 1940DelhiM.L.Shah
625–26 December 1940Nagpur M. Farooqui
731 December 1941 to 1 January 1942Patna Perin Bharucha
Prashanta Sanyal
828–31 December 1944Calcutta Satyapal Dang
920 January 1946Guntur Satyapal Dang
103 January 1947DelhiAnnada Shankar Bhattacharya
1129–31 December 1947BombayAnnada Shankar Bhattacharya Satyapal Dang
1223–27 July 1949CalcuttaAnnada Shankar BhattacharyaSusheela Madiman
1950CalcuttaSukhendu Mazumdar (Acting general secretary)Susheela Madiman
1952CalcuttaAnnada Shankar BhattacharyaSusheela Madiman
131–5 January 1953Hyderabad N.R. Dasari Harish Chandra Tiwari
145–8 January 1955LucknowSukhendu MazumdarB. Narsingha Rao
152–4 January 1959UdaipurHiren Dasgupta Vidyasagar Nautiyal
1625–27 October 1961,
but it could not be held due to natural disaster		Kanpur
1729 December 1965 – 2 January 1966Pondicherry S. Sudhakar Reddy Joginder Singh Dayal
1821–23 December 1969New DelhiRanjit GuhaBant Singh Brar
1920 January 1974Cochin Aziz Pasha Shambhu Sharan Shrivastava
201–9 February 1979Ludhiana Amarjeet Kaur Atul Kumar Anjan
2128–31 January 1983Trichy Amarjeet Kaur Atul Kumar Anjan
2213–16 December 1985GunturT. LaxminarayanaRavindra Nath Rai
2315–18 February 1991BokaroSoni ThengamomRavindra Nath Rai
247–9 February 1996HyderabadT. SrinivasRahul Bhaiji
2518–21 October 2000JalandharVijendra KesariT. Srinivas,
Ramakrushna Panda
263–6 January 2006ChennaiVijendra KesariP. Muralidhar,
Jinu Zakariya Oommen [42]
2713-15 February 2010PuducherryAbhay TaksalParamjit Dhaban
2828–30 November 2013HyderabadVishwajeet KumarValli Ullah Khadri [42]
2927–30 September 2018Anantapur, Andhra PradeshVicky MahesariShuvam Banerjee [43]
3028–1 September–October 2023BegusaraiDinesh SreerangarajVicky Mahesari [43]

Present leadership

At the 30th AISF National Conference, held in September to October 2023 in Begusarai, Bihar, Vicky Mahesari from Punjab was elected as National President and Dinesh Sreerangaraj from Tamilnadu was elected as General Secretary. [44] Varinder Khurana an author [45] and a research scholar from Punjabi University Patiala is State Secretary Punjab and National Executive member of AISF. [46] [47] In Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union 2019–20, Md. Danish was elected the joint secretary with a large majority. [48] [49]

Notable leaders

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