The Rise Of Students Union...
As I remember our first principal was a relative of our Sakhaav Sandeep.. really.. I dont know if everyone knows abt that or not..So he was constantly in touch with him regarding the affiliation issues. But he was transfered soon and we got a new principal who was a lean felow, with specs I actually forget his name.
Our college was also known as REC(Reservation Engineering College and not Regional Engineering College) as all the students got admission under some sort f reservations.. I got it under RP(Reserved Police) quota..anyways we were glad that we made it in there.. So at first we were not that worried about AICTE affiliations. But I think situations got worse and we were in a doubt whether we will get that affiliation or not.
That doubt paved the way for getting united and fight for our rights... I dunno exactly what was happening behind the screens but everybody was thrilled about striking.. Striking for the first time in our new college...I studied in St. Xavier's College Thumba, Thiruvananthpuram and had already experienced the real power of striking.. I was just curious how this is gonna happen in my new college as we were not under any Political party. Anyways it was just a matter of time and very soon a Students Union was formed for the task of getting affiliation. College authorities were clueless about whether we will get affiliation and they assured us that as we are a Govt. College and we will get that affiliation anyhow.But it was not enough to convince us as we had seen many other Engg. Colleges shutdown. So we got engaged....
It all started with Road blocking campaigns.. It's just indescribable. We blocked the road that connects Mananthavady to Kalpetta and that to in front of our college bus stop. Many four wheelers came and they were driven away. As we were shouting slogans and demanding for our rights we saw something very annoying. Our college Jeep was in front of us.We all thought "How Dare"... And me and Sam were out in front, we didn't thought about it twice and we did what we were supposed to do.. Infalted all the tyres of the Jeep. Kudos to Sam..
Everyone was quite happy with the strike. We were shouting like anything when they mentioned that they are gonna call police. "Pull aane pull aane , policum patallam pull aane".. I dunno whether we really meant it... I was glad that There was no RAF(Rapid Action Force) camp anywhere near by. My father used to tell me RAF was specifically designed for these situations where normal life is disrupted and RAF people are taught to show no mercy...Good God they were not there..
A bunch of students were up in the college. guess what were they doing.. "Gheraoing principal". I liked this part very much coz there were lot of incidents that happened inside that office that were humorous. Nowfal was drinking the tea that was served to the Principal.. I still have that image in my mind.. and lots.. hey guys you can come up with those...
Police came and the matter was all solved after a settlement that college authorities will look into that matter. I dunno what was the settlement or how it settled.. Sakhaave tell us abt it... And after all the dramas I found myself and Sandeep in front of Anitha Madam.
I thought everything gonna be over soon, they are gonna call my parents and take some disciplinary action against us. But it was nothing like that. Anitha madam was always cool and she very well know how to handle this things...here's the real conversation that happened that day:
Madam: What are you people up to?? Ningal enthina strike cheyunne.
Sandeep:.........blah blah blah(he told the reason).
Madam turned to me.
Madam: Nee Jeepinte tyre oori vitto???
Me: No madam njan Jeepinte tyre ooriyathe illa.
(I was laughing like anything) Madam was supposed to ask whether I inflated the tyre but she ended up asking did I removed the tyre.
I didnt lied .. I said the truth Isn't it guys???
Sandeep what happened next????
Anyone who remember please come up with what weird things happened inside Principal's office that day. Everything was quite weird that was happening that day.
This topic is not complete.. I will come up with some other matters real soon...so keep coming back...
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In that strike, the police has taken the case against 10 students. Azeem,Me, and 8 others, i dont remember the names now. After a 2 years, the court has given 100rs fine to all. It was the first case against me, and the movement was then lead us to the SFI and then to politics,strikes,clashes etc etc...
I think there were some girls who were also with us inside the principals office, i dunno who all. There was somebody who picked up the Phone call for the princi :-). I think it was Russell... that was real funny .... :-) and Nowfal.... No mention... we did actually do some material damage inside his office :-) Good that we dint get into too much trouble...........
There are many missings . Nee oodaiya vazhiyil ippozhumm pullu killikkunilla . satyamano ??? Njan arijathu nee parannu poyannanu ..:)
"Pull aane pull aane , policum patallam pull aane"
Actually we shouted this slogan after the arrival of police. We were so brave then. And sad part is that we never got any affiliation (am not sure, whether I can say it here or not). But we did succeeded with out any kind of affiliation.
I did remember some thing. When we blocked the road infront of our college, the police diverted the vehicles from thonichal (1 km away from College), so that vehicles will reach mananthavady with out any trouble. After some 1 hour there wasn't any single vehicle in the road. Thats when we decided to head back to college and gheravo the Principal.
We had one more strike at Mananthavady town, right? Dont remember much now. When was it?
we missed one thing..after that road block, we went for a meeting at collectorate in kalpetta. There we have amith also with us. and Revi sir was there..in that meeting we have some demands and the collector defended all those. we were not armed fully, so we left without any gains. The only gain was that we proved we can do something.