WHY TARGET UNIVERSITY & SFI?
The whole exercise has been worked out to curtail the activities of SFI, whom people of the state rightly term as face of the democratic movement in Himachal Pradesh. The present Congress government is fully aware of the potential of SFI to fight the onslaughts of the economic and other policies of the state and take things to the logical conclusion through democratic movements. The recent example being that of leakage of CPMT question paper that was sold to a few parents of aspiring candidates for huge sums of money. The legal process right up to the Supreme Court of India vindicated SFIs stand. It is this resolve of the SFI against corruption, irregularities and other ongoings in the University and elsewhere that the ruling party wants to curb. The state government and the ruling party also know that the movements by SFI against corruption, saffronisation and commercialisation of education during the BJP regime created an environment where BJP had to sit in the opposition in 2003. He
