Haritha (Organisation)

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Haritha (Girl's wing of MSF)
Formation11 August 2012(11 years ago) (2012-08-11)
Type Student wing
Legal statusActive
Headquarters Calicut, Kerala, India
Region served
India
President
Ayisha Banu
General Secretary
Rumaisa Rafeeq [1]
Vice President
Nayana Suresh
Parent organization
Indian Union Muslim League (IUML)

MSF Haritha or Haritha [2] is a Girl's students wing of MSF - Indian Union Muslim League affiliated to the IUML [3] [4]

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History

MSF state conference of 2011 [5] triggered the birth of Haritha. Around 1,500 girls had registered online, then Haritha was officially founded in 2012 at Calicut, Kerala with Najma Thabsheera and Fathima Thahiliya as its main organiser and Fathima Thahiliya as the founding general secretary. The original group consisted of Najma Thabsheera and Shafeena Kannur. It functioned as the student wing of Indian Union Muslim League. While Shafeena Kannur was the President, HARITHA took a leading role in the Justice for women, Women empowerment and opposition campaign against the communist state government.

Fathima Thahiliya (founding general secretary of Haritha Fathima Thahiliya TOLERANCE & COEXISTENCE 2.0 FORUM 2019 Bangkok.jpg
Fathima Thahiliya (founding general secretary of Haritha

Haritha State Office bearers

Current office bearers [6]
NameDesignationDistrict
P H Ayisha Banu [7] President Malappuram
Rumaiza RafeeqGeneral Secretary Kannur
Nayana Suresh [8] Treasure Malappuram
Najwa HaneenaVice President Malappuram
Shahida RasheedVice President Kasargode
Ayisha MariyamVice President Palakkad
AfshilaSecretary Kozhikkode
FayishaSecretary Thiruvananthapuram
Akheela FarshanaSecretary Ernakulam

Activities

Protest and demands

Haritha has campus protested against the Citizenship Amendment Act in The women of Shaheen Bagh [9]

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