POLITICS is everywhere...from kitchen to UN,from drawing room to consulate and the list may go on. In this milieu,it is natural and necessary to understand the real meaning of politics which is different from the social perception of the word.
As per the textbook of Politics, politics is mainly concerned with decision-making process and conflict resolution in any political system. In simple words,politics is the process in which some people make decisions and formulate policies for the whole community and conflict within the community is supposed to be solved through proper mechanism. To improve status, dignity and welfare are at the core of political process. This may be little bit boring for you, but it is sin qua non for getting the clearer view of the whole write-up.
In our society, generally ,students are told to maintain a proper distance from politics so that their academic excellence could not be affected. Students are often expected to be engaged with their pen and paper. Also, they are imbibed with the view that being political will proved as anathema to their academic progress. In the era where politics decides from your meal to attire, such social values are certainly an obstruction to the holistic development of students.
How can any university student be so oblivious to politics in the age of inadequate education budget, lesser jobs and inefficiency of educational institutions! It is perhaps impossible. Apart from these, fees of public university touching a new height and the demon of privatization becoming a new normal in the field of higher education.
In fact, students are the natural and eternal opposition of any democratic system like India. To satisfy them is not an easy task. They always hope and aspire for much better than existing scenario. They can act as an organized opposition by raising questions over wrong policies. Such potential of organized student body could rile up the ruling dispensation that may culminates into branding of some varsity as anti-national and eruption of violence in campuses.
However, it is also a fact that negative societal perception about politics get impetus and positive vibes through the recent cases like violence at JNU,BHU and widespread scuffle during student union election at different varsities across India. When the method of conflict-resolution itself become a matter of conflict and violence then the principle "students' should remain immune from politics" easily finds its legitimacy.
Therefore; to make the student politics meaningful, students involved in politics should stuck to literal principles of politics that envisage decision-making and conflict-resolutions through peaceful means (which is not so easy in the age of money and muscle power and thus needs extraordinary will-power) and they should try to implement such principles in practice instead of resorting to ill-methods like violence and intimidation during poll process.
It is quite possible that you may not be active participant of the ongoing political process but still it is necessary to keep watch on what is going around because you may not be interested in politics but politics will always take interest in you.
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