Fraternity Movement

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Fraternity Movement
FormationApril 30, 2017;6 years ago (2017-04-30)
Headquarters New Delhi
FieldsStudent and Youth
National Secretary
 Afreen Fatima
President
Mohammed Asim Khan
Website fraternityindia.org

Fraternity Movement is an indian student-youth party in India working for strengthening democracy, social justice and fraternity. [1] [2] It is a growing student organization in many regions of India especially in West Bengal, Kerala and Delhi. [3]

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The slogan of the movement is 'Democracy, Social Justice and Fraternity'. [4]

In 2017, Fraternity made its foray into politics by winning a seat in the college students council of the Maharaja's College in Ernakulam. [5] Fraternity Movement candidate Afreen Fatima won the student union elections of Jawaharlal Nehru University as a councillor in 2019. [6] [7]

During the Anti-Citizenship protests that sparked India in December 2019, Fraternity Movement blocked the Calicut international airport. [8] Several members of Fraternity Movement, were jailed for their involvement in the protests. [9]

History

Fraternity Movement was launched on 30 April 2017 at a student-youth convention held at Ambedkar Bhawan, New Delhi. Aligarh Muslim University Student Leader Ansar Aboobaker was elected as the first president. [10] Since its formation, the organisation has grown in many states including Kerala, [11] West Bengal, [12] Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka. Following the court verdict of Babri Masjid - Ram Janmbhoomi dispute, Fraternity Movement criticised the judgement stating Supreme Court has failed to uphold justice. [13]

Prominent leaders

Afreen Fatima

Afreen Fatima is a student leader and National Secretary of Fraternity Movement. She is a prominent Muslim voice against the anti-Muslim policies of the Indian government. She studied MA in linguistics at JNU, where she also served as the elected councillor in JNU students' union 2019-20 from the school of Language, Literature and Cultural Studies. As a candidate from Fraternity Movement - BAPSA alliance, [14] she strengthened the call of "unity of the oppressed" and raised the issues of representation, discrimination and identity assertion. [15] Formerly, she has been the elected president of Women's College Students' Union at the Aligarh Muslim University for the session 2018-19. [16] She is known to have actively participated in the anti-CAA protests that started in 2019. [17] She faced several days long media trial after a small part of her speech was tweeted by BJP's national spokesman Sambit Patra. [18]

Aysha Renna

Aysha Renna is a Muslim Student Activist and National Secretary of Fraternity Movement. A Post Graduate in History from Jamia Millia Islamia, she is one of the leading voices of the Citizenship Amendment Act Protests. [19] She along with Ladeeda Farzana were called 'Sheroes of Jamia' by Barkha Dutt in an interview. [20] Her video of confronting baton wielding police officers to save her friend during a protest went viral. [21] She has travelled to all major Indian cities to address the Shaheen Bagh protest sites against Citizenship Amendment Act passed by the Indian government in 2019. [22] In January 2021, she was invited to speak at the Elgar Parishad along with Arundhati Roy, Kannan Gopinathan and Sharjeel Usmani. [23]

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