Leaders of All Tribal Students' Union Manipur (ATSUM) were arrested and jailed on October 6, 2008 at Imphal, Manipur, when they were demanding for redressing the educational rights of the tribals in Manipur. In extending our solidarity to the demands of ATSUM for justice and equality and in condemnation of the brutality of the Government of Manipur in dealing with the democratic aspirations of the tribals, all Manipur tribal students' in Delhi will protest and demonstrate from Jantar Mantar to Parliament Street on October 10, 2008, 10:00 AM onwards to demand for a separate Hill University for the tribals in Manipur.
We humbly request for your participation.
Mr David Buhril
Even as hot seat for the contry's students election process is still a month away, electioneering process in the Delhi University and Jawaharlal Nehru University is witnessing new player in the form of Northeast students. Major political parties are fully aware of the 10,000-strong student community from the region.
Media reports has it that leaders from the National Students Union of India (NSUI), recently met northeastern students at the Nagaland House to garner their support. "They can make a difference in the elections," said an AICC member. Several community-based unions from the region have got together under a single umbrella, calling themselves the North East Students United Forum.
With representation from all the states, excluding Sikkim, in the Northeast, the forum includes major groupings such as the Assam Students Association, Delhi, Delhi Mizo Zirlai Pawl, Tripura Students Union, Manipur Students Association, Delhi and the Naga Students Union, Delhi.
The Northeast students' votes is expected to have some impact on the outcome of the result. But the absence of some students' union from the reported meeting made it clear that not all northeast students' unions were too keen to join the so-called forum.
