SFI IHRD ENGINEERING COLLEGE CHERTHALA: September 2010

Martyrs

Com Sree Kumar

(04-01-1982 )

Com Sree Kumar was the leading spirit behind the rapid growth of SFI at SN College, Kollam, Kerala. He was the son of Sri Kuttan Pillai and Smt Gomathi Amma. Realizing that they are losing ground the ABVP and RSS miscreants in the college and its vicinity decided to clear him from their way. They entered the college Campus on the sly and they not only stabbed Sree Kumar but also prevented him from being taken to the hospital. He died before hundreds of students due to severe bleeding on 4th January 1982.

Com KR Thomas

(03-11-1981 )

He was the victim of RSS communal insanity. Com KR Thomas was the district committee member and chairman of the SFI Trichur Government college unit, Kerala. Thomas also found time to organize peasants and gave effective leadership to the peasants and common people. He played crucial role in enlightening them ideologically, He was attacked on 3rd November 1981 while on the way to his home along with Comrade Lohithakshan. The RSS “goondas” attacked him with lethal weapons and he succumbed to death at the hospital on the same day

Com Pradeep Kumar

(13-07-1981 )

Son of Mr Kakkottil Oningam Appu, and Smt Karthyani of Kozhikode district Kerala, Com Pradeep kumar was a martyr of organized feudalism. On 13th July, 1981, the students of AKKR High School took out a procession under the leadership of Com Pradeep kumar protesting the hike in student’s bus fare. In the commotion the driver moved the bus forward and it ran over Comrade Pradeep Kumar. He was subjected to major surgery at the medical college hospital, but the doctors were unable to save his life. He was martyred on 13th July 1981.

Com P.K. Rajan

(24-02-1979 )

Com Rajan was noted for his academic excellence and the judicious mixture of the slogan study and struggle. He was born to Mr. Kumaran Vaidyan of Pattambi Government Ayur Veda College and Ms. Sarojini Amma, a traditional family of indigenous medical practitioners. He belonged to Ernakulam district, Kerala. He was attracted to SFI at an early age and became the unit president of Tripunithura Ayur Vedic College. He had hopes to serve the poor by following the same profession as his father. He became the target of KSU gangsters as he resisted their atrocities in the campus. They stabbed comrade PK Rajan on 24th February, 1979. The doctors could not save his life though tried their best.

Com G. Bhuvanaeswaran

(12-12-1977 )

Com G. Bhuvanaeswaran was from Alappuzha, Kerala. His parents were Sri P. Gopala Krishna Kurup and Smt Pankajakshi Amma. Com G. Bhuvanaeswaran was championing the cause of the students and stood in the forefront in exposing the pretensions of the KSU. On 2nd December 1977 the KSU goondas unleashed attacks in the Pandalam NSS college Campus and attacked Com Bhuvaneswaran and Com Raghu, who were in the mathematics department of the college. They were admitted in the hospital and Comrade Bhuvaneswaran breathed his last on 7th December 1977

Com Velayudhan

(19-12-1976 )

Comrade Velayudhan was a student at Koduvayoor High school, in Palakkadu District, Kerala and he propagated a philosophy which was against religious fanaticism. This provoked RSS and Sangh Parivar and they attacked him with weapons. They stabbed him piercing his back bone, paralyzing him and forced him to lay on bed for 16 months. He lost his life after a long fight with death on 19th December 1976.

Com Mohammed Musthafa

(16-08-1976 )

Comrade Mohammed Musthafa was arrested by the police for leading a procession in the MES college campus, Mannarkad, Palakkad district, Kerala. The students were protesting against the fees hike and the state of emergency declared by the government in 1976. Musthaffa was sent to Perinthalmanna Sub-Jail, where he was subjected to brutal torture by the police .His mother pleaded the police to set him free, but all her pleading fell on the deaf ears. The police stated that they would set him free if he would resign from SFI. Comrade Mushtaffa was not ready to quit SFI even for his life. On 16th August 1976 he succumbed to the police torture and gave up his life to the cause.

Com Saithali

(19-09-1974 )

Com Saithali resisted all atrocities, especially those against girls committed by the ABVP miscreants in the Pattambi Sanskrit College campus, Palakkad District, Kerala. On 19th September 1974 Comrade Sunder Raj, Comrade Saithali, Comrade Krishna kumar, Comrade Moitheen Kutty and Comrade Khalid were attacked for questioning the misbehavior of the volunteers of KSU and ABVP . They brutally assaulted these comrades and beat Comrade Saithali with iron bar on his head and stabbed him to death while he fell unconscious and lost his life on 19th September 1974

Com Asharaf

(05-03-1974 )

Com Asharaf is the victim of dagger politics of right wing student organizations of Kerala. He won the hearts of students by winning the college union election for the post of general captain, in the Thalassery Brennen College of Kannur district, and thus became a sore in the eye for the right wing politicians. His colleagues named him the “prince of play grounds”. Being a general captain he gave wings to the sports dreams of his college. His victory made the opponents panicky. From his early childhood he was an active worker in the progressive movements. During his college days he became an active worker of SFI. His ability to bring in politics even in his casual talk taught his friends the first lessons of being a revolutionary. On 10th December 1973 KSU criminals stabbed Com Asharaf in front of the Malayalam department of his college. He was taken to the hospital immediately by his comrades. But after a long struggle for life he breathed his last on 5th March 1974. He was the son of Saitharppalli Mammu and Fathima.

Com Devapaalan

(08-10-1971 )

Com Devapaalan was a native of Peroorkkada near Thiruvanathapuram, Kerala. He was a student of M.G. College. He was the first martyr of SFI in Kerala. During the rally organized on the eve of Thirvananthapuram District Conference of SFI, a bus ran into the rally injuring several comrades including Devapaalan. He was taken to the hospital, but later succumbed to the injuries on 8th October 1971

martyrs

Com Ajeesh

(09-08-2010 )

Com Ajeesh was from Kottayam district Kerala. When ABVP failed to resist the influence and growth of SFI in Kottayam BMS College they decided to attack SFI Cadres. They came armed and destroyed everything they saw on their way. They caught Com. Ajeesh when he was going to the Canteen. He pleaded not to harm as he was ill. But the merciless ABVP goondas beat him lifted and threw him down. Blood clotted in his stomach due to the heavy blow. He was hospitalized on August 6th and died on 9th August, 1992.

Com A.B BIJESH

(02-11-2009 )

Com: A B Bijesh was fromThrissur District. He was the secretariate member of SFI Thrissur District Committee when he was brutally murdered by NDF fundamentalists in the year 2009.On the day of 23rd October com:A B Bijesh was brutally attacked by NDF activists while he was on his way to c o-operative bank,where com:A B Bijesh got a temperary job. He left us on 2nd November 2009.Com:A B Bijesh and his movement played a lead role against the fundamental activities of NDF,which was the reason behind the attack by the muslim fundamentalist organisation on Com:A B Bijesh.

Com AJAYA PRASAD

(20-07-2007 )

Com Ajay was the son of Sri Syam Prasad and Smt Indira Thankachi of Kollam district Kerala. Com Ajay became a symbol of courage to the young comrades in Karunagapalli. He was the joint secretary of Karunagappalli Area Committee and a delegate in SFI State Conference. He had been in the forefront of the campaign against communal forces and had been instrumental in attracting many students and friends to rally round Left progressive students Union. While working as a Joint secretary of Karunagappalli area committee he had rescued many students from the ABVP /RSS criminals. His activities enraged the RSS goondas. The Fundamentalist and fascist forces found him a threat to their criminal activities and com. Ajay Prasad was beaten to death on 20th July, 2007.

Com RAJESH. M

(31-10-2001 )

Com Rajesh was the son of Sri Murali and Smt Prasanna. He was from Pathanamthitta district, Kerala. Com Rajesh was a brilliant student and true example for the slogan ‘complete slogan’. He got high distinction in SSLC, first class in pre-degree, was a captain of college football team, member of the volleyball team and was awarded best actor in school youth festival. He was a promising poet and an athlete with bright future. He was secretary of the SFI Unit Panthalam NSS College. His organizing ability and leadership had made him the Student Union Chairman and a sore in the eyes of his political opponents. He was murdered while returning home after attending the SFI State March on 31st October, 2001 by the dalit Panthers.

Com Ajay

(03-08-1997 )

Com Ajay is from Thiruvanantapuram, Kerala. RSS had been trying to strengthen their hold in the college Campuses in Trivandrum district by creating unrest and terrifying atmosphere. Com. Ajay as a result of his organizational activities in Vettiyurkkavu Polytechnique and Sree Narayana College, Chempazhanthi became a most popular leader. His political opponents, who feared the spread of Left and progressive ideology, got into the bus he was traveling and killed him on 3rd September, 1997.

Com M.A. Sakkeer

(16-01-1995 )

Com Sakkeer is from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. Under the leadership of Com Sakkeer, SFI had secured a historic victory in Evening Law College Trivandrum. He was elected as the union chairman. During midnight on the same day about 30 PDP activists wearing gloves came armed to the small one- roomed house of Com Sakkeer, broke the door open and attacked him with weapons in front of his father and little sister. With a bleeding neck, he ran to save his life to the neighbor’s house but the criminals followed him, caught him and pressing him against a coconut tree slashed him to death on 16th January, 1995.

Com K.V. oshan

(25-11-1994 )

Com Roshan was son of Sri KV Vasu and Smt Narayani. Com K.V. Roshan became a martyr on 25th November 1994. He was a student leader from Kuthuparamba, a small town in Kannur District of Kerala. At that time of his martyrdom Com K V Roshan was a student in excellent College, Kuthuparamba. Roshan was a man with heroic personality. He was aware that there was a chance to lose his life in this struggle but he never bothered about his life. He was an active participant in the Democratic struggle against the commercialization of education in Kerala. In the early years of the 1990’s, Congress led UDF Government of Kerala tried to commercialize the famous public education system in Kerala. SFI and other democratic organizations conducted a massive campaign against these policies. Under the leadership of SFI state committee several protest marches were organized during this period. On 25th November 1994, as part of the campaign against the education policy, several students-and youth organizations had decided to conduct a rally in Kuthuparamba when the minister reached there. But the minister ordered the police to fire on the procession. Roshan and his comrades from Excellent College organized a protest march towards that area. In this brutal police firing four comrades were shot dead at the site. Against the brutal act several students and democratic organisations conducted a march in the streets of Kuthuparamba. But the police again fired, and the student leader Com K V Roshan was shot dead.

Koothuparamba Martyrs

(25-11-1994 )

Koothuparamba’ is a symbol of historical struggle by the youth and students. It was a struggle against the imperialist policies and globalization propaganda of the government of Kerala. The incident happened on 25th November 1994 when the people gathered on the streets of Koothuparamba to protest against the privatization and commoditization of education. Police fired against the unarmed youth and students. Five brave and daring youths were shot dead in the police firing. Comrades K.K. Rajeevan, Madhu, Shibulal, Babu and Roshan have become the five stars of our movement against privatisation and commercialisation of education.

Com P.K. Rameshan

(29-09-1994 )

Com Rameshan is from Kozhikode, Kerala. Ramesan resisted the activities of the RSS rowdies who used to come from outside the college campus and create problems for the students. They used to prevent the students form attending classes and used to pester them. Com Ramesh became a sore in the eye of the goondas. SFI had also bagged a historic victory in the Student Union Election of Govt. College Madappally. The defeated KSU with the help of RSS goondas from outside the campus attacked our comrades on 26th September, 1994. Com Rameshan was severely wounded on his head and was hurried to the hospital. He left us on 29th September 1994

Com K.V Sudheesh

(26-01-1994 )

Com K.V Sudheesh was a son of Sri KV Nanu and Smt Nalini of Kannur district Kerala. He was the joint secretary of Kerala state unit and central committee member of SFI when he was brutally murdered by RSS fascists in 1994. On the early morning of 26th January, 1994 a group of RSS criminals reached Com K.V. Sudheesh’s home and brutally killed him in front of his mother and father. There were 36 injuries reported in Com Sudheesh’s body. Com Sudheesh was not only a student leader but also a leader of masses of his region. He was a district Panchayat member, when he was murdered. Com. Sudheesh and his movement played a determined role in resisting the ideology of RSS and its allies, which was the real reason behind the bestial attack against him.

Com K.C. Rajesh

(17-12-1993 )

Com Rajesh was a son of Sri Prabhakaran Nambiar and Smt Rugmini. He was from Kannur district Kerala. He was the College Union Chairman of Kannur Poly Technique and member of SFI Edakkad area committee. He was also the secretary of Mathematics association. He had endeared himself to the student community by his inimitable qualities and organizing capacity. He received a representation from the students saying that the private buses did not stop at the bus stop near the Poly technique and they are being ill treated and harassed by the bus workers. Rajesh who had always stood in the forefront of students struggles came to the road along with other students to discuss the matter with the bus driver. The driver did not stop the bus. Instead he accelerated the bus, knocking down Com Rajesh down. The wounded comrade was rushed to the hospital but to no avail. He breathed his last on 17th December 1993

Com Joby Andrews

(15-07-1992 )

Com Joby Andrews was from Kozhikode district Kerala. The murder of Com Joby, secretary of SFI Thamarassery Area committe was also a planned one. He had contributed immensely to the strengthening of the SFI activities in Thamarassery Area. On 15th July 1992 during the concluding procession of the SFI election rally the KSU and MSF students deliberately stoned the SFI volunteers without any provocation. Com Joby who was addressing the comrades was stoned down. The attempts to rescue the fallen comrade were of no use as they continued to pelt huge stones. This happened in the presence of the police. He became a martyr on 15th July 1992.

Com Sajeevan

(29-02-1992 )

Com Sajeevan was the son of Sri Parajimel Kunchi Chekku and Smt Kalyani of Kozhikode district, Kerala. When he was returning from his friend Achuthan’s house at Mannatt along with his friends the Muslim League goondas sprang on them from all the four corners. Com Sajeevan was stabbed from behind. The son of Parayinmel Kunjichekku and Kalyani, was murdered by the communal forces on 23rd October 1988.

Com Kochaniyan

(29-02-1992 )

Com Kochaniyan was the son of Sri RV Kandankuty and KK Ammini. He was from Trissur Kerala. Com Kochaniyan along with other SFI friends asked the organizing committee for volunteer badges during the Inter Zone Youth Festival of Calicut University that was being conducted on 29th February 1992. The hired criminals brought by the KSU sprang upon them and killed Kochaniyan on the spot on 29th February 1992. All this happened in the presence of Police. He was working as the secretary of Kuttanellor Govt. College Unit, President of Ollur Area Committee and Member of the District Committee while murdered

Com Anil

(08-12-1988 )

Com Anil was from Pathanamthitta district Kerala. He was a student of 9th standard and the class leader of Pathanamthitta Vayyattupuzha School. He was murdered by RSS goondas as an act of revenge against his father. The cruel murders thrust the trident into his corpse. He was murdered while his father was in police custody on 8th December 1988. The murder of Com Anil exemplifies how far the communal forces can brutally act in life. He was killed before the eyes of his sister from the premises of his house on the 8th December 1988.

Com Sabu

(24-01-1988 )

Com Sabu is from Kottayam district Kerala. Com Sabu’s contribution in organizing students of St. Marys College, Mannarkad has been significant. He was a first year Degree student of St. Mary’s College, Mannarkkad. He rose to the leadership of the college SFI unit as soon as he joined the campus as a first year student. He was only eighteen when murdered by the congress goondas on 24th January 1988. They unleashed vandalism when they were defeated in the Panchayat election. He died of serious injuries inflicted from the glass pieces thrust into his body.

Com Koroth Chandran

(29-11-1985 )

Com Koroth Chandran was from Kozhikode district Kerala. He was a student of 9th standard in KR High School, Purameri and secretary of the SFI unit. He had also been giving leadership to the activities of Balasangam” (Left progressive Children’s Organisation). The private buses operating in the route has not been stopping at the Poly Technique bus stop and hence the students had picketed the Abhilash bus. The cleaner of the bus an RSS goonda, jumped out of the bus and started beating the students recklessly with an iron lever. Com. Chandran was hit on his head and fell down. The murderer repeatedly beat till he breathed his last. He was rushed to the hospital but he passed away on the next day, 29th November, 1985.

Com M.S. Prasad

(07-09-1984 )

Com Prasad was a son of Smt Thankamma of Pathanamthitta district Kerala. As he was the main witness in the murder case of Com. C.V. Jose, the culprits thought they could avoid imprisonment by cutting his tongue. He was stabbed to death by INTUC/Congress goondas while chatting with a DYFI comrade near Chittoor depot on 7th September, 1984. The wounded Prasad ran to a neighboring house and fell down on a cot. The murderess followed him to the house and stabbed him as many as 17 times till death. He was the Vice President of SFI Pathanamthitta District and the former Student Union Chairman of the College and had given active leadership to the college union activities. He was a solid shield of resistance against the vulgarities of KSU, but unfortunately he had to leave his life in the attempt. Com M.S. Prasad got brutally murdered on 7th September 1984, the day of Thiruvonam, the day of festival in Kerala.

Com E.K. Balan

(05-01-1984 )

He was the first year pre degree student at Keralavarma College Trichur, Kerala, when he became the target of RSS miscreants. His parents were Sri Puthukara Parinchul Kesavan and Smt Ganga. On 5th January, 1984, he was attacked by around 12 RSS ‘goondas’ and stabbed to death, while he was on the way to attend a celebration with his friends. He succumbed to the multiple stab injuries and died on the way to hospital on the 5th January, 1984.

Com CV Jose

(17-12-1982 )

Com CV Jose was a prominent student leader from Pathanamthitta district Kerala. The defeat in Pathanamthitta Catholicate college union Election was a severe blow to the KSU leaders. They attacked Com Jose, who was on the way to the college to file a petition before the principal against the attacks on the SFI activists by the KSU goons. They followed Com Jose and stabbed him piercing his chest on the 17th December 1982 in front of the Principal and the entire teaching staff of the college. He breathed his last on the way to the medical college hospital.

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Programme

Our Heritage

The Students’ Federation of India inherits with pride the anti-imperialist, patriotic, secular, democratic, and progressive legacy of the Indian people’s struggle for national liberation from the British colonial rule. It carries forward the heritage of the progressive student movement of our country, which has always considered itself an inseparable part of the broader struggle for social transformation. It is this legacy that the Students’ Federation of India holds aloft in its slogan of “Independence, Democracy, and Socialism!”
The Students’ Federation of India cannot be oblivious of the fact that our country had to suffer centuries of colonial slavery and ruthless exploitation of foreign imperialism and native feudalism. This led to mass-scale poverty, hunger, misery and aggravation of social evils for the vast majority of the people and forced them to lead a sub-human life. The growing consciousness against the social evils saw the birth of a social reform movement led by great rational thinkers. The people’s fight to put an end to the British colonial rule and feudalism gave birth to the historic national movement for independence, in which students played an active role.
The formation of the All India Students’ Federation on 12th August 1936 marked the consolidation of the progressive and radical trends within the Indian student community and the beginning of the organized student movement in India. The distinctive character of AISF was the manner in which it organized within its fold students irrespective of their political affiliation under the slogan of anti-imperialism. Also, on the world-scale, rapid advances were being made in the USSR vis-à-vis the deepening crisis in the industrially advanced capitalist countries, which attracted students to the Left ideology.
The debates during the formative years of the AISF saw the crystallization of the two basic premises that have since guided the progressive student movement. The first is the right and the necessity of students to organize themselves in defense of their rights and to struggle for an education system that would meet the needs of the vast majority of our people. The second is the recognition that such a struggle can be successful only when combined with the broader struggles of other sections of the people.
The post World War II years, which brought about the decisive defeat of fascism, also witnessed massive popular resistance worldwide against colonialism. During this period, the national liberation struggles in various countries gained momentum, and India was not an exception. The AISF stood in solidarity with the mass struggles, at times playing a significant role. As a culmination of these struggles, our country finally attained political independence. However, these were also the times when the communal divide aided by the British was deepening that finally led to the partition of the country.
Independence in 1947 brought high hopes that the progressive and democratic ideals of the freedom struggle would be realized. In the initial decades, significant achievements were registered in building up a democratic polity and breaking the colonial stagnation of the economy. These, however, were halting and inadequate to meet the needs of our vast millions. This was because the process was fraught with contradictions — the central one being that the new regime adopted a capitalist path of development on the basis of a historic compromise with landlordism and imperialism. As a result, the stranglehold of feudal and semi-feudal relations remained largely intact. Consequently, neither economic growth nor democracy could have a stable base. In the sphere of education too, while there was some progress in the post-independence period, it was in the main limited to a privileged few, and the Constitutional directive for universal and compulsory primary education remained largely unfulfilled.
The different perspectives regarding the policies of the ruling class led to a serious rift in the student movement. A section of the leadership insisted on supporting the line of the then Congress government, thus making student movement tail the government’s policies. An opposing section stood for mobilizing the student community against the government policies. Due to the dominance of the former view, the AISF by the decade of sixties was robbed of the potential of struggling against the anti-student and anti-people policies of the then Congress government. This forced various state unit organizations to function independently. It became essential to build a new militant organization moored in the earlier fine tradition of the AISF, which led to the formation of the Students’ Federation of India [SFI] at an all India conference held from 27-30 December 1970 at Thiruvananthapuram.
The Students’ Federation of India, since its inception, successfully championed the slogan of ‘Study & Struggle’ and effectively countered the disruptive theory of ‘Student Power’ that ascribed to the student community the leadership of social revolution. The Students’ Federation of India stood firmly against attacks on democratic rights and fought against the imposition of emergency. Its slogan of “Education for all, Jobs for all” found a strong appeal within the student masses of the country, rallying them to the fold of the movement and the organization. The Students’ Federation of India consistently stood in solidarity with the anti-imperialist national liberation movements across the globe.
The introduction of new education policy in 1986 saw a renewed attack on the public education system. Students’ Federation of India initiated a united struggle against these proposals intended to drastically curtail the scope of education in the government sector. SFI was able to withstand the anti-reservation stir against the Mandal Commission recommendations due to the principled position it had taken. It fought in defense of the unity and integrity of the country, for communal amity, social justice and made heroic sacrifices in these struggles.
The Students’ Federation of India is fully aware of the fact that the imposition of the neo-liberal economic policies on our country is disastrous to the vast majority of the people, which deprives large sections of students from access to education and employment. On the other hand, the right wing communal forces systematically undermine even the modest democratic and secular content of our education system to propagate their politics of hate and religious frenzy in an attempt to draw a wedge between different communities. Students’ Federation of India has been at the forefront of struggles against this dual danger, in defense of students’ rights and for upholding the secular, democratic character and sovereignty of our Republic
The earlier generations of the student community played their proud and glorious role in fighting for the achievement of political independence from the British. Following their example, it is the historic and patriotic duty of our generation of students to take an active interest in the struggle for elimination of the evil legacies of dependence, backwardness and poverty, and laying the foundation for a really free, prosperous, and progressive future for our people. The Students’ Federation of India presents before the student community a programme that guides them to achieve a democratic, scientific and progressive education system. It commits to carry forward the uncompromising struggle for the establishment of a socialist society, a social order free from all kinds of exploitation.

Our Perspective

The Students’ Federation of India takes upon itself the historic task of leading the student community of our country in its endeavor to establish a democratic, scientific, and progressive education system to ensure education and job for all. The student community is an integral part of the society and the upliftment and betterment of their conditions of life and education depends upon and is determined by the all-round development of our society. Hence, they cannot but evince keen interest in the socio-economic, political, and cultural conditions of the country and its radical all-around development and progress.
Every demand for education, employment opportunities, and the right to work, and every slogan in defense of civil rights such as right to speech, assembly, and association, and every protest against any injustice or oppression are invariably connected with the policies of the state and thus assume a political character. In the face of this reality, it is hypocritical to subscribe to bankrupt slogans such as ‘students should abstain from politics’ and ‘education should be apolitical’. The Students’ Federation of India is of the considered view that such deceptive slogans have the political motivation of perpetuating political ignorance among the student community to conceal from them the harsh implications of the anti-people policies of the ruling classes thus help the conservative, exploitative social order to stay.
Even after more than five decades of independence, the State has miserably failed to provide universal elementary education. Millions of children though interested in attending schools, are forced to work as child laborers due to their abject poverty. Without bringing a thorough change in their socio-economic conditions, neither the obnoxious practice of child labor can be abolished nor the goal of universal elementary education achieved. Whatever expansion took place in the volume of educational institutions also is limited to some privileged few; the vast sections of the toiling masses still largely lack access to education – pre-primary to university. Large-scale commercialization and the abdication of the State from its responsibility to fund education has stifled the public education system and resulted in a rapid decline in the standard of and access to education.
SFI is of the opinion that ensuring education for all is the duty of the State. The deepening of the neo-liberal reforms since the closing decades of the last century has seen the State abdicating from its responsibility of disseminating education in the country. Due to this failure of the State, private educational institutes are mushrooming throughout the country with a disastrous impact on fees, admission policy and democratic rights. In the background of this reality, SFI demands that the State fulfill its responsibility of providing higher education, and for private educational institutions, a mechanism to ensure social control – especially in the area of admissions, fee and content – should be established.
The Students’ Federation of India is critical of the existing education system also because of its inadequacy to boost the development of the enormous natural and human resources available, and to make use of the great growth potential of our country. The colonial influence in the curriculum of education is still more or less unaltered. The Union government has continually eroded the federal character of our country and it is trying to vest major powers for itself in framing the policies on education. The attack on the democratic rights of the academic community, particularly those of students, has become very common. Students across the country have seen their basic right to associate and elect representatives being taken away and student resistance often being met by brutal repression.
The future of the youth is in grave crisis due to the severely deteriorating employment situation in the country. Lack of dynamism in the private industrial and service sectors coupled with the shrinking government sector has constrained the growth of employment opportunities. The escalation of unemployment, both in general and especially among the educated youth, renders waste the vast social and material investment made in education.
The problems of education and its development or the unemployment crisis cannot be understood in isolation of the overall socio-economic conditions. Feudal land relations on the one hand and the dominance of monopoly and imperialist capital on the other have fettered the pace of industrialization in our country. In the absence of comprehensive land reforms, agricultural income continues to remain highly concentrated with a few. This has resulted in the failure to create an extensive and effective demand for industrial products, which could have in turn spurred the industrialization process. Monopoly and foreign capital compel the already existing relatively smaller units to close down. In the face of such hurdles, a sustained process of industrialization could never really take off. Such a lopsided industrialization in turn has failed to generate employment and an effective demand for manpower. In the absence of sufficient demand for trained and schooled labor in the economy, the spontaneous process of extension and development of education has lagged. Ultimately it is the actual and effective development of the real economy – industry and agriculture – which is crucial for extensive employment, education and overall prosperity. In the light of such an understanding, the task of land reform and elimination of the stranglehold of monopoly and imperialist capital are central to the objective of extensive generation of employment and concomitant expansion and development of education in our country.
Institutions of higher education play a crucial role in fostering the intellectual self-reliance of a country. The attack of imperialist globalization on education is part of the imperialist strategy to perpetuate its hegemonic influence on the third world by ruining independence of thought and research in natural and social sciences in higher academic institutions, which are very essential for any country to preserve sovereignty and self-reliance. The Students’ Federation of India realises the urgent necessity of overhauling the present educational system. Equal access of opportunities at all stages of education should be ensured. SFI urges for a scientific and democratic education system that is suited to explore and develop all the capabilities and special aptitudes of the students that will help in propelling the rapid development of our people and the country.
The setback to socialism in the Soviet Union and East European countries paved the way for US-led imperialism to use its economic, political, and military power aggressively to establish its hegemony the world over. Imperialism has resorted to predatory wars in order to maintain its dominance and divert attention from the exploitative nature of the new economic reforms of globalization. The US, with its vast nuclear arsenal, exhibits an aggressive militarism, disregarding even basic international norms and treaties and superseding multilateral world forums such as the United Nations. The Students’ Federation of India declares its deep-rooted commitment to world peace and nuclear disarmament and extends its solidarity to all the progressive forces of the world fighting for freedom, democracy, territorial integrity, national independence and socialism against imperialist hegemony. The Students’ Federation of India strongly denounces US imperialism as the foremost enemy of humankind and declares its resolve to join hands with all progressive, anti-imperialist forces the world over in the battle to wipe out imperialism forever

The insecurities, uneven development and deprivations generated by imperialist globalization has provided fertile grounds for the growth of fundamentalist and chauvinist forces. These forces have often received the support of imperialism because of their potential of disrupting people’s unity. The imperialist aggression which is nothing but State terrorism and the violence unleashed by these forces seek their justification in each other. All forms of terrorism and fundamentalism pose a serious threat to our national unity and integrity. SFI is also opposed to the curtailment of democratic rights by the State in the name of combating terror. SFI defends the unity and integrity of our country and believes that it can be safeguarded only through student and other popular mobilizations.
In our country the most dangerous manifestation of the divisive tendencies is the communal fascistic policies of the Sangh Parivar. The communal forces are using education system as a means to inject the communal venom to further vested interests. They are using all the means at their disposal to disrupt the secular fabric of our country. This majority communalism in turn breeds minority communalism and vice-versa, which are detrimental to the interests of the people.
The period of liberalization is also a period of increasing attacks on the democratic rights of the people. The judiciary, which is regarded as a protector of the rights, is increasingly influenced by these policies as is evident in a series of anti-people judgments. Together with this, corrupt practices within a section of judiciary are undermining the faith of people. Though formally, both the rich and poor are equal in principle. The system of justice in essence is serving the interests of the exploiting classes.
The student movement is an integral component of the wider democratic movement of the workers, peasants, and other progressive forces. It can neither achieve its immediate day-to-day demands nor realise its aims and objectives without a combined and united effort of all the progressive and democratic forces of our country. The Students’ Federation of India will continuously educate its ranks and propagate among the broad student masses the importance of the unity of all the democratic forces of the country in the struggle for a just and equitable social order. As such, it seeks the cooperation and the support of the democratic movement of workers, peasants, and the middle classes and extends its co-operation and support to all these movements and their aspirations. It raises its voice against all exploitation and oppression of workers, peasants, women, Dalits, and tribals.
As a student organization with a progressive outlook, Students’ Federation of India is interested in encouraging free and frank discussion on what scientific socialism is and what are the correct means and methods of achieving it. The Students’ Federation of India declares itself as an united and broad-based mass organisation of students and not a political party but is primarily interested in the upliftment and betterment of the student community, and pledges to zealously protect the independent, scientific, progressive, democratic, and secular character of its organization.

Aims and Objectives

The Students’ Federation of India takes upon itself the task of organizing the students in schools, colleges, universities and other educational institutions of the country and also Indian students studying abroad under its banner to build a powerful and well-knit student movement for the upliftment and betterment of the student community
The Students’ Federation of India fights for the realisation of its aim to establish a democratic, scientific, secular and progressive educational system ensuring education and job for all that calls for the implementation of comprehensive land reforms, elimination of the stranglehold of international finance capital and indigenous monopoly capitalism. The Students’ Federation of India aims to accomplish this by organizing the student community in the struggles of the wider democratic movement of the workers, peasants, and other progressive forces
The Students’ Federation of India as a forward-looking and progressive student organization shall inscribe on its banner, “Independence, Democracy and Socialism”. It is with this perspective that Students’ Federation of India is committed to strive for a society free from all exploitation. It shall fight all such alien trends and tendencies that are disruptive of our struggle for the emancipation of our people and country
The Students’ Federation of India will continuously work to ensure all necessary facilities for complete and meaningful education – hostel, library and laboratory, sports and games, athletics and physical training, culture and entertainment, and other educative and social activities – that will be adequate and within the reach of all students. The Students’ Federation of India will continuously fight for the attainment of all just and democratic rights of students. It will fight and work for the right of students to democratic and independent expression and conduct, to form unions and associations, to assemble, to participate in the management of educational institutions and in all activities connected with the academic and other aspects of student life. The Students’ Federation of India will strive to develop the Students’ urge for more and more knowledge and to inculcate among students the practice of self-education and self-discipline. The Students’ Federation of India will further strive to develop close-knit relations between teachers, non-teaching staff, guardians, students and the rest of the academic community, and foster mutual respect and regard between them. The Students’ Federation of India will untiringly resist any attempt to drive a wedge between the students and the rest of the academic community. It will also oppose all attempts to alienate the student community from other democratic and toiling sections of our people.
The Students’ Federation of India, while stressing the duty and necessity of the student community for diligent and industrious study of the humanities and the sciences to equip themselves with adequate knowledge and enlightenment, simultaneously seeks to encourage and promote their thirst for political and social knowledge and consciousness. The students should thus be adequately prepared, on leaving school or college, to play their rightful role as conscious citizens of this fast changing society of our times.
The Students’ Federation of India pledges to fight for equality of all, irrespective of religion, caste, gender, language, and race and as part of this struggle, commits to fight for the empowerment of the disadvantaged classes, castes, tribes and communities, the women, and other marginalized sections of the society and for the protection of the rights of the linguistic, ethnic, racial, religious and other minorities. The Students’ Federation of India upholds the constitutionally guaranteed rights for minorities to run and manage educational institutions in the country. However it should be ensured that these institutions are not run with a commercial motive to earn profits and misutilised for spreading irrational and fundamentalist ideology.
The Students’ Federation of India stands firmly in defense of secularism, the complete separation of state and polity from religion. The Students’ Federation of India declares its uncompromising opposition to all forms of religious fundamentalism, bigotry and communalism, and pledges to fight against all forms of communal violence, terror, and in particular communal fascism. The communal forces divide the student community thus weakening their struggles for educational and employment rights. The Students’ Federation of India unflinchingly confronts all attempts to destroy the unity of the students and the people at large on religious and communal lines and with unfailing sincerity addresses itself to the task of promoting communal harmony and patriotic unity of the people against the anti-national forces of communalism.
Students Federation of India is strongly opposed to all forms of gender discrimination and oppression in every sphere of life. The prevalence of age-old evil traditions like sati and dowry portray the deplorable condition of women in our country. It commits to fight all patriarchal values and practices which draw their basis both from the remnants of feudal relations, outmoded ways of thought, and from the commodification of women under capitalism. SFI shall fight for the emancipation of women and demands equality of access to education for girls. SFI stands and strives for a progressive and gender sensitive ethos and curriculum.
The Students’ Federation of India is vehemently opposed to all forms of caste discrimination and oppression. SFI strives to eradicate the inhuman practice of untouchability, all forms of social oppression and fights for the abolition of caste system. It supports reservations for the dalits, the adivasis and other backward castes and communities in the area of education and employment, and demands its extension to the private sector too. The Students’ Federation of India is of the considered opinion that other forms of deprivation like economic, regional, and gender-wise backwardness should also be taken into account in providing reservations. It also raises its voice for the fulfillment of the existing stipulation of reservations and new provisions wherever required for all other disadvantaged categories (physically challenged, etc.).
The Students’ Federation of India staunchly opposes all kinds of narrow, separatist parochialism and chauvinism, be it on linguistic, provincial, regional, or ethnic lines. The Students’ Federation of India strives for a democratic realignment of power between the Union and the state governments with emphasis on decentralization of power to strengthen the federal character of the nation in order to safeguard national unity and to ensure balanced development. The Students’ Federation of India fully supports the developmental aspirations, both material and cultural, of the various nationalities in the Indian Union within the territorial integrity of the country and extends full cooperation to their legitimate and democratic struggles against the oppressive and authoritarian policies of the State.
The socially unplanned and uncontrolled capitalist path of development with the sole objective of reckless profiteering has precipitated dangerous environmental degradation. The Students’ Federation of India is committed to environment-friendly development and will strive along with progressive peoples’ movements for protection and sustenance of environment.
The cultural diversity of our country is facing multi-pronged attacks. On one hand the onslaught of market-oriented consumerist values is deforming our cultural foundations while on the other hand aggressive communalism is seeking to impose a Manuvadi cultural hierarchy in the name of ‘cultural nationalism’. The Students’ Federation of India firmly resists all attempts to mutilate the mosaic of our varied and pluralistic culture while firmly rejecting the influence of the colonial-feudal culture. It stands committed to steadfastly promote development of people’s culture based on modern, scientific progressive and humanitarian values.
The Students’ Federation of India works towards protecting identity, languages and culture of indigenous, tribal communities while fighting against their exploitation and dispossession for their overall development and helping them to integrate with the mainstream social life. At the same time, the Students’ Federation of India struggles for the development of education, welfare and integrity of tribes by defending their rights. The rights of the tribal people should be protected according to the Schedules V and VI of the Constitution of India, especially at a time of intensifying attack of imperialist globalisation.
The Students’ Federation of India is committed to strengthen the mass democratic movement in our country in order to advance the struggle for socio-economic emancipation of the people. The Students’ Federation of India, along with other progressive forces, stands committed to fight against the stranglehold of feudal and casteist values and rituals that severely impair the advancement of democratic consciousness among the masses. A radical social reform movement together with the fight against feudal land relations along with other democratic and progressive forces is an important part of Students’ Federation of India’s agenda to develop democratic consciousness among the vast toiling sections.
The Students’ Federation of India as an organization and movement inspired by anti-imperialist, democratic, and socialist ideas, is pledged to combat the onslaught of imperialist globalization and domination in all areas of student and public life. The Students’ Federation of India simultaneously is pledged to protect the unity and integrity of our country from the onslaught of communal and separatist forces. It extends its solidarity to all the progressive forces of the world fighting for freedom, independence, territorial integrity, democracy, and socialism against imperialist aggression. The Students’ Federation of India is committed to work in close coordination with all the progressive, democratic, and socialist forces around the world and earnestly work for building a powerful international Student movement in defense of world peace, independence, democracy and socialism against imperialism.
The Students’ Federation of India seeks to establish warm and friendly relations with all other organizations and associations of students, youth and the academic community, which are pledged to work for independence, secularism, democracy, peace, and socialism. It is prepared to unite with all those who are willing to join hands with it on specific issues and demands, and jointly act with them for the redress of the Students’ grievances.
The Students’ Federation of India places this programme before the student community and calls upon the students, youth, women, middle classes, peasants, workers and all other forces interested in the democratic advancement of our country to unite for the fulfillment of these tasks and join hands to build a prosperous life for all our people.

constitution

Name

The name of the organization shall be Students’ Federation of India.

AIMS

To organize the students in schools, colleges, universities and other educational institutions of the country and also Indian students studying abroad under its banner to build a powerful and well-knit student movement for the upliftment and betterment of the student community
To take active interest in the struggle for liquidation of the evil legacies of colonialism and for building in our country an independent, democratic and socialist society to ensure a prosperous and progressive future for our people.
To establish a democratic, scientific and progressive educational system ensuring education and job for all that will be facilitated by the implementation of comprehensive land reforms, elimination of the stranglehold of international finance capital and indigenous monopoly capitalism.
To organize the student community in the struggles of the wider democratic movement of the workers, peasants, and other progressive forces and to seek their cooperation and support to achieve the immediate demands and aims.
To achieve the democratic rights of the student community- Right to democratic and independent expression and behavior. – Right to form student unions and associations and right to assemble – Right to participate in the management of all educational institutions and of all bodies connected with the academic and other affairs of student life.
To work for free universal and compulsory education up to secondary stage and abolition of all school fees up to plus two stage, and for all necessary and complete facilities of education, hostel, scholarships, sports and cultural and social activities that would be adequate and within the reach of all students. To ensure that education upto primary level is provided in mother tongue.
To struggle for guarantee of employment after completion of education or unemployment grants till employed and fight for the recognition of the right to work as a constitutionally guaranteed fundamental right.
To fight against every manifestation of, and oppression or discrimination based on, religion, caste, language, race, region or gender and to work for secularism, communal harmony, amity and equality of all.
To extend warm solidarity to all the progressive forces of the world struggling for freedom, national independence and socialism.
To establish fraternal and friendly relations with all other student organizations, which are pledged to work for secularism, democracy and socialism and to have united action with other student organizations on specific issues and demands

To achieve the democratic rights of the student community- Right to democratic and independent expression and behavior. – Right to form student unions and associations and right to assemble – Right to participate in the management of all educational institutions and of all bodies connected with the academic and other affairs of student life.

FLAG

A flag with a red five cornered star in the top left corner, on a white background and Independence, Democracy and Socialism written one beneath the other also in red; the ratio of length and breadth of the flag being 3:2.

AFFILIATION OF STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS, MEMBERS AND UNITS

Students’ Federation of India may permit affiliation to any student organization, based on a State in India or in certain areas of any state or on any educational institution provided that the organization accepts the programme of Students’ Federation of India, and expresses its willingness to abide by the Constitution of Students’ Federation of India and command a certain minimum number of students on its rolls, as decided by the Central Executive Committee of the Students’ Federation of India.

Any unit desiring affiliation to Students’ Federation of India shall charge its members a subscription fee of Rs 1 per academic session in case of school students, and Rs 2 per academic session for students from other academic institutions, or $ 1 in case of overseas Indian students and shall pay an affiliation fee of 20 per cent of the subscription fee, per member on its rolls to the Central Executive Committee of the Students Federation of India Apart from the affiliation fee from each member, each unit of the organisation and the affiliate organizations will have to pay a registration fee of Re 1/- and overseas units and affiliates, 1$ per annum to the Central Executive Committee of the Students’ Federation of India

MEMBERSHIP AND RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF THE MEMBERS

A student above 12 years of age or studying in standard six and above, whichever is earlier, irrespective of gender, caste, religion, language, race or region and opinion, who accepts the objectives of the Students Federation of India and pays the required annual subscription fee is eligible to be a member. School students are required to pay an annual subscription of 1 rupee, and students from other academic institutions have to pay Rs 2 or 1 $ in case of overseas Indian students. The membership will be valid for a single academic session only. The differential membership fees shall not in any way mean differential rights and duties of the members.
Any member of Students’ Federation of India after the completion of ones education is eligible to enroll oneself as a member for another two years more. Even after this period, the conference can elect those ex-students in the Executive Committee or as office bearers of the said committee.
Every member will have the right to elect and to be elected and place ones opinions before the executive of the Students’ Federation of India.
A member will have the right of resignation.
All members will have the responsibility of implementing the programmers adopted through general conference and the right to propagate those objectives and activities of the Students’ Federation of India. Every member should regularly read the organ of the Students’ Federation of India and should take responsibilities of popularizing the organ.
Every member can contribute and should collect funds for the organization.

DISCIPLINARY ACTION

Disciplinary action may be taken against any member by the duly constituted committee under whose jurisdiction the member is enrolled, if the person’s activities are against the interest or the Constitution, of the organization.
A member facing disciplinary charges has the right to explain his or her conduct to the committee initiating action.
Expulsion of a member has to be ratified by the next higher committee. A member who is expelled or is facing any disciplinary action has the right to appeal to the higher committees and subsequently up to the Central Executive Committee.
Central Executive Committee can disaffiliate any unit, for not conforming to the interest of the organization or acting against the aims and objectives of the organization. State bodies have similar powers vis-à-vis units under them. In the latter case, right of appeal for the units lie with the Central Executive Committee.
Disaffiliation of any State committee by the Central Executive Committee must be placed for approval at the next All India Conference.

STRUCTURE OF THE ORGANIZATION

Conferences
Executives
Affiliated bodies, organized on State, District, Zone/Area, local and institution basis

THE ORGANIZATION AND ITS RIGHTS

The All India Conference will be the highest body of the entire organization. The State Conference will be the highest body of the respective state organization; similarly, the highest body of the organization for any level will be the conference of the organization of that particular level. The All India conferences will be held normally every two years.
The Affiliated bodies of Students’ Federation of India will elect delegates to the All India Conference by proportional vote in their respective conferences. Delegates to a conference of the Students’ Federation of India will be elected from the conferences or organizational conventions of the lower level bodies that come under its jurisdiction. In case of organizational conventions, advance ratification from the higher committee will be required. The number of delegates from any unit to a conference will be in a certain proportion of the membership commanded by the unit. The executive or the committee of a level will decide on the ratio of delegation and membership and other matters pertaining to the details of the same for the conference at its level.
The conference will take the final decision pertaining to the subject and the procedure of the conference and will elect a steering committee and a presidium for conducting the work of the conference.
The conference will review the work of the organization of the interim period since the last conference and will adopt the future programme.
A statement on the work carried out and the annual accounts of the outgoing committee will be placed before the conference.
The conference will elect an executive, the number of which shall be fixed by the Conference.
The voting will be by secret ballot and proportional representation in case unanimity is wanting in the elections.

EXECUTIVE

In between two conferences the executive or the committee shall be the highest body.
The executive will execute the decision of the conference.
The executive will draft rules in conformity with the Constitution for conducting the work.
The CEC should meet at least thrice a year and the notice of the meeting should be circulated at least 15 days prior to the meeting. If at least one-third of the members of the Central Executive Committee demand for a meeting, it shall have to call a meeting within two months. If more than one-third of the members be present at a meeting, the decision of the meeting shall be considered valid.
If any seat becomes vacant, the executive can co-opt to fill up the space.
The member of the executive shall have to pay the fee of one rupee per year.
The Executive may form different sub-committees to carry on its work
The Executive after its election shall elect a President, a General Secretary and Vice Presidents and Joint Secretaries whose numbers it shall decide. The total strength of the Central Secretariat will not exceed 1/3rd of the total strength of the Executive.
The Executive shall form the editorial board for the organ of the Students’ Federation of India or the secretariat should take the necessary responsibility.
The executive may assign one member from the secretariat to supervise the fund.
All the affiliated state units should be represented in the Executive.
The President or in the absence of the President any Vice President shall conduct the functions of the Executive Committee.
The All India Conference shall be convened by the decision of the Executive.
The Executive is empowered to remove, suspend, or expel any of its members or office bearers for misconduct or any anti-organizational activities.

THE SECRETARIAT

The Secretariat shall consist of office bearers. It conducts the functions of the interim period between two executive meetings.
The General Secretary after consultation with the Secretariat shall convene the meeting of the Executive Committee.
The affiliated bodies and State Committees of the organization can have their own Constitution without transgressing or conflicting with the provisions of the Constitution of Students’ Federation of India.

CHANGE IN THE CONSTITUTION

The conference only can change or amend the Programme and Constitution. Any notice of proposed amendments to the Constitution by any member or unit must reach the Central Executive Committee at least two months before the All India Conference. The Central Executive Committee must circulate them to the State units at least one month before the All India Conference. The amendments proposed by CEC will also have to follow the same procedure.
All proposed amendments to the programme and Constitution must be passed by at least two-thirds of the total number of delegates attending the Conference.

RULES UNDER THE CONSTITUTION

The rules under the Constitution can be amended by the Central Executive Committee.
To ensure the rights of individual members, the primary unit committees must organize general body meetings after the interval of certain regular periods and the primary unit committees will have to take into cognizance the views of the general body and make necessary alteration or rectification if the need so arises. But these general body meetings should not be construed as substitute to the annual unit conference.
To organize such general body meetings in a meaningful manner, it is necessary to limit the membership under one primary unit committee. To adopt such a course, it is obvious that the institution cannot always be the basis for the formation of the unit. The new basis for such units may be evolved in consultation with the immediate higher committee.
To adopt the democratic principles for the functioning of the organization, it is necessary to define the areas of rights and responsibilities of the various committees at different levels. The rights of the different committees are as follows:a) The primary unit committee will have the absolute right of taking decisions concerning issues at the institution level or its defined area of work, provided such decisions do not have implications, which go beyond the confines of the institution or the unit’s area of work.b) The local committee will have absolute right to take decisions concerning issues at its respective local level, provided such decisions do not have implications, which go beyond the confines of the respective locale.c) The area /zonal committees will have absolute right to take decisions concerning issues at the respective area/zonal level provided such decisions do not have implications, which go beyond the confines of the respective area/ zone.d) The district committee will have absolute right to take decisions concerning issues at the respective district level, provided such decisions do not have implications, which go beyond the confines of the respective district.e) The state committee will have absolute right to take all decisions concerning issues at the respective state level, provided such decisions do not have implications, which go beyond the confines of the respective state. The state committee will have the right to publish journals. The lower committees can only do so with explicit permission from the state committee. f) The CEC will have the absolute right to take decisions on all issues of national and international concern.
With new and diverse conditions of the student movement prevailing in different parts of the country, the mechanism of affiliation is not fully adequate to provide organizational space for interaction with new student structures with democratic content, which are coming up, on regional basis. For the advance of the united and democratic student movement of the country, it is necessary to bestow consultative status to these structures. The CEC will have the absolute power to workout the exact mechanism taking concrete decisions on the basis of evaluation of specific cases

History

Students’ federation of India was formed through its First Conference which was held at Thiruvananthapuram between December 27to 30th in the year 1970.

In the latter half of 1970 student leaders from various states assembled together at Calcutta and decided to form a new student organization which is committed to bring together the students of our country and lead them on issues such as radical education reforms, employment, safeguarding and expansion of democratic rights and give the students movement of our country a new and correct direction leads to the formation of Students Federation of India.

As regards the Kerala Unit of the organization, the State Committee started functioning from February 1971 and the first State Conference was held between March 11th to 13th at Palakkad during the year 1971.
Since then it has been an era of relentless struggle for the organization striving to ensure justice for the student community in the State.

The State unit had a very modest beginning spreading its tentacles over a few colleges in the State. Over the years, the Students Federation of India has grown into the biggest student organization in the State. The Students Federation of India leads the University Unions in all the Universities in the State. The very fact that the Students Federation of India commands majority in almost all the colleges/schools/polytechnics/Industrial Training Institute/Professional institutions including the Engineering and Medical College sin the State reflects the commitment of the organization in its attempt to cater to the needs of the students.
The organization had on its rolls less than 50,000 members in the State in its formative stage. As per the statistics available for the academic year 2009-2010, the membership stands at 12 lakhs. Eleven lakhs Eight nine thousand one hundred and eightynine.

All this years SFI in its march forward under the banner of Independence, Democracy, socialism had to deal with and counter various wrong tendencies with in the student movement. These 40 years have been very difficult years.

In the last forty year right from Comrade Devapalan to Comrade. A.B. Bijesh, around 29 Cadres have become martyrs to the cruel and barbaric deeds of the fundamentalist and night wing forces operating in the state. Several of its members were tortured, Jailed and academically victimized. SFI was able to with stand the stiff resistance offered by all sections offered by who want to divide the student community on the basis of religion and caste and to commercially education. A section of the media nursing the capitalist and feudal ideologies with the active assistance of the pseudo intelligentsia who put forward the age old reactionary slogan that students should not take part in politics have made many an attempt to destroy the organization by spreading false and untrue campaign whereby trying to show the organization in poor light. However, the organization has outlived such malicious motives, thanks of the unflinching commitment by the rank and file of the organization and the continuous support of the student community. SFI becomes the prime target of all reactionary forces because the enemies of the people recognize that from within the student community it represents the main danger challenging their authority.

During the period of emergency, when the democratic set up was facing its greatest peril, SFI organized many protests and student agitations to uphold the principles of democracy. Many of its cadres were jailed arbitrarily and because victims of organized torture. Comrade Mohammed Mustafa died as a result of the torture inflicted by the police.

It is after the emergency period that the state organization witnessed a tremendous growth. The efforts of the organization in upholding the principles of justice and democracy were recognized and appreciated by the entire society including the student community. On the basis of martyrdom and glorious sacrifices of its members SFI today become the leading force in uniting the students on common issue.

It is only the consistent efforts of the organization in upholding and catering to the needs of the students, the organization could grow into as where it stands today. No other organization has waged its struggle as the Students Federation of India against ragging and exploitation of students, attempts to communally polarize the student community etc. The Students Federation of India throughout the years has effectively warded off all diabolic attempts to commercialize education, which is detrimental to the interests of the student community.

As the largest student organization in the state and the true inheritor of the glorious traditions of the pre-Independence student movement, SFI Kerala State Committee will carry on the struggle for a better future.

State Conference -Palakkad, 1971 March-11,12,13
Presi:Devadas Pottakkad Sec:C K Ravi
State Conference -Kottayam, 1972 March-22,23,24
Presi:Devadas Pottakkad- Sec:G Sudhakaran
State Conference -Kollam, 1973 Dec:15,16,17
Pres:G Sudhakaran Sec:Kodiyeri balakrishnan
-State Conference -Trivandrum, 1974 March-1,2,3
Pres:M A Baby – Sec:Kodiyeri balakrishnan
State Conference -Thrissur, 1976 Aug:29
Pres:M A Baby Sec:Kodiyeri balakrishnan
State Conference -Ernakulam, Feb:22,23,24
Pres:M A Baby Sec:Kodiyeri balakrishnan
State Conference -Kozhikkode, Jan:27,28,29
Pres:M A Baby Sec:A K Balan(Later Thomas Isac became State Pres: because of M A Baby Elected as national presi: )
State Conference -Punalur, March-7,8
Pres:P Sasi Sec:A K Balan
State Conference -Palakkad, 1981 Dec:
Pres:C P John Sec:P Sasi
State Conference -Kannur, 1982 Jan:9,10,11
Pres:C P John Sec:P Sasi
State Conference -Mattancheri,1983 Feb:
Pres:Suresh Kurup Sec:C P John
State Conference -Trivandrum,1984 Jan:6,7,8,9
Pres:Suresh Kurup Sec:C P John
State Conference -Kollam, 1985 Feb:
Pres:V Sivankutty Sec:Mathayi Chakko
State Conference -Alappuzha,1986 Feb:22,23,24
Pres:V Sivankutty Sec:A Vijayaragavan
State Conference -Guruvayoor,1987 Feb:15,16,17
Pres:James Mathew Sec:V Sivankutty
State Conference -Kollam, 1988 Mar:17,18,19
Pres:P R Muraleedharan Sec:James Mathew
State Conference -Kannur, 1989 Mar:23,24,25
Pres:P R Muraleedharan Sec:James Mathew
Aluva Convention-1991 Mar:14,15Pres:A Pradeepkuma Sec:P R Muraleedharan
State Conference -Ernakulam, 1992 Feb:27,28,29
Pres:U P Joseph Sec:A Pradeepkumar
State Conference -Kozhikkode,1994 Feb:27,28,29
Pres:K N Balagopal Sec:U P Joseph
State Conference -Kottayam,1995 Aug:4,5,6
Pres:C H Ashique Sec:K N Balagopal
State Conference -Kollam, 1997 Feb:,5,6,7,8
Pres:P Rajeev Sec:C H Ashique
State Conference -Kannur, 1998 Aug:6,7,8,9
Pres: P Abdullakkutty Sec:P Rajeev
State Conference -Alappuzha,2000 Jan:1,2,3,4
Pres: Puthalath Dineshan Sec:M B Rajesh
State Conference -Thiruvalla, 2001 Feb:23,24,25
Pres: Puthalath Dineshan Sec:M B Rajesh
State Conference -Kottyam, 2002 Oct:4,5,6,7
Pres:P K Biju Sec:T V Rajesh
State Conference -Thrissur,2004 Mar:4,5
Pres:P K Biju Sec:T V Rajesh
State Conference -Kannur, 2005 Nov:10,11,12
Pres:Sindhujoy Sec:M Swaraj
State Conference -Perinthalmanna, 2007 May:3,4,5
Pres:Sindhujoy Sec:M Swaraj
State Conference -Trivandrum, 200 Mar:6,7,8,9
Pres:P Biju Sec:A N Shamseer
State Conference -Kozhikode, 2009Nov:17,18,19,20
Pres:K V Sumesh Sec:P Biju

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