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SFI Gujarat State Conference Held Successfully

Newly elected SFI Gujarat State Committee Members with comrades V P Sanu and Nitheesh Narayanan

Student Struggle Editorial Team

After long hiatus of 33 years, the State Conference of SFI’s Gujarat state unit was held on 6th November 2022 in Ahmedabad and it was SFI Gujarat’s 3rd State Conference. The 2nd Conference of SFI Gujarat was held at Sidhpur (Patan) on 31st January 1989 and 1st February 1989. SFI activities re-started in Gujarat in 2016 and have made considerable advances in the last six years. The state organizing committee was coordinating the activities all these years. The state conference was planned after SFI made organizational inroads in more than six districts in the state and successfully formed district committees in four of them.

The state conference was inaugurated by V P Sanu, all-India president of SFI. In his inaugural speech, he emphasized on the importance of building stronger student movements to resist the onslaught on democracy and education. Nitheesh Narayanan, central secretariat Member of SFI also addressed the conference. Arun Mehta(State Secretary, CITU Gujarat) and Hitendra Bhatt(Joint Secretary, AIIEA), Satish Parmar(State President, CITU Gujarat) extended revolutionary greetings to the delegates attending the conference.

The conference was well attended by 121 delegates from 4 districts of Gujarat. The Work and Organisational report were placed by the state convenor, Nitish Mohan. The conference unanimously passed the report following the discussion by the delegates and the response from the leadership. Then, the Conference elected a 21 members state committee with Nitish Mohan and Dipak Patil as State Secretary and State President respectively. Moreover, Satyesha Leuva and Ajay Patel were elected as Joint Secretaries and Mansi Raval and Aagman Leuva as Vice Presidents and Secretariat members as Harekrishna Rathod. Five delegates were elected to represent the state unit in the All India Conference of SFI which is to be held at Hyderabad in the month of December.

The conference concluded with the pledge on the part of the newly elected state committee in particular and delegates present in the conference in general, to strengthen the organization and student movement in Gujarat. Moreover, they vowed to reach every student of the state and lead their battle for emancipation, and save the students from the wrath of privatization and commercialization of education in Gujarat.


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