Soldiers are actually dying because of politicians: Shehla Rashid

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March 12, 2016

Bengaluru: Mar 12: Who is responsible for the death of brave soldiers like Lance Naik Hanmanthappa, asked Shehla Rashid Shora, vice-president, JNU Students Union, who was in the City on?Friday.

jnu1“Soldiers think they are dying for the country but they are actually dying for politicians. Border disputes are kept alive. Politicians and bureaucrats talk to each other in top hotels. All this is a farce,” Shehla, who was here on an invitation from the Journalists' Study Centre, Karnataka, said.

Shehla became the first Kashmiri to win the JNU elections that were held last year. An engineering graduate, she has also done a short course on “India-Women Leadership” from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. She now studies at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, JNU.

Even as JNU?president Kanhaiya Kumar stoked fresh controversy with his comments about the army raping women in Kashmir, Shehla reiterated that JNUSU supported soldiers.

The argument, she however said, was much more than that. “We are with the soldiers and any pro-soldier approach is anti-war. However, we need to rethink a number of issues such as the way the arms trade is being conducted and the defence budget is being reduced,” she said, implying that this endangered soldiers' lives. At the same time, JNUSU does not shy away from raising slogans against long-standing issues involving the army such as the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) and custodial rapes, she added.

Shehla, who affiliates herself with the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation, said she did have political aspirations, but for the moment there were “broader challenges”. “We contest elections and many of our members have been contesting elections from Bihar. At the moment, we are about saving the ideals of the Constitution. This government has been anti-dalit, anti-women and anti-poor. It is trying to wipe out any opposition as evident even in the FTII,” she said.

While everyone was busy hounding students from the JNU for their “anti-national” slogans, Akbar Chaudhry, another student leader highlighted the part played by JNU students in a number of recent movements. “During the Nirbhaya protests, we were at the forefront. At the Occupy UGC (University Grants Commission)' movement, we protested for 100 days. Even during the Rohith Vemula's incident, we were on a hunger strike,” he said.

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IBRAHIM.HUSSAIN
 - 
Sunday, 13 Mar 2016

Just Ms. Shehla is connected with CPM, she cannot be criticized. Khaunhein Bangalore, you cannot issue diktats to this lady as she is free person.

If you have guts, you should have attended her press briefing and countered her, instead writing in this forum.

Khaunehain
 - 
Saturday, 12 Mar 2016

for what u have joined jnu do that first, u need not to worry about soldier, if u have that much guts join army and study their situation and protest, u dont know anything and your khaunhain(khanhaiya)

One of indian
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Saturday, 12 Mar 2016

You are 100% correct. No doubt at all.

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