SFI has faced a terrible rout in the students’ union elections of the Jadavpur University arts faculty at the hands of Forum for Arts Students (FAS). Unlike the DSF-controlled Faculty of Engineering and Technology Students Union (FETSU), the arts faculty was an SFI bastion for the past 11 years. FAS was a joint non-SFI forum formed after police cruelty on students in June 2005.
It’s good to see SFI eliminated from JU. Going by my personal experience, they are always making trouble. When I was in JU in 2005, I found them supporting police action on the fasting students. Unfortunately in my college NBMC, SFI is is the lone party. Anyway, I support only one student organisation and that is Youth for Equality.

