AISF to hold programme on Rahul Gandhi's suggestion

Of late, the Communist Party of India-backed All India Students' Federation (AISF) seems to be looking to Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi for ideas. After Jawaharlal Nehru (JNU) University Students Union President Kanhaiya Kumar, who is a member of the AISF, met Gandhi at the latter's residence to "thank" him for his support for the students' agitation at the university, AISF chief Syed Wali Ullah Qadri said they would continue engaging with Gandhi. In fact, the AISF is now working towards implementing one of Gandhi's suggestions: to organise a national programme that will bring together students of all those institutions in the country who had been victimised by the authorities. The programme will bring students from Ambedkar Periyar Study Circle at IIT Madras; Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, Hyderabad Central University; University of Allahabad and JNU among others on to a common platform to highlight how the government was infringing upon the autonomy of institutions. Student union leaders are also slated to be present at the event.