Student organizations affiliated with political parties including the Nepali Congress, UML, and NCP have issued a joint statement demanding the government's decision be revoked.
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14 student organizations affiliated with various political parties have commented that the government's decision to remove the structure of student organizations from schools and universities is undemocratic.
Student organizations affiliated with political parties including Congress, UML, NCP have issued a joint statement demanding the government's decision to be revoked.
The government has decided to remove the structure of party student organizations from schools and universities within 60 days and form a student council within 90 days. 'The right to join an organization based on ideas is a fundamental right guaranteed by the Constitution of Nepal. The act of restricting anyone's ideas is against democratic values and norms and is also incompatible with international human rights standards. Such an effort risks creating obstacles in the natural political socialization process of the young generation,' the joint statement of the student organizations said.
Although the government's prioritization of the restructuring of the student movement is positive and welcome, the student organization has alleged that any decision that aims to restrict freedom of thought, expression, and organization in the name of reform is immature, apolitical, unnatural, unconstitutional, and undemocratic.
The United Student Organization has appealed to the government to continue moving forward in a constructive and creative manner by correcting the anomalies and anomalies in the student movement.
The government has been demanded to reject the government's decision and ensure democratic values, constitutional rights, and participatory processes and to build consensus through meaningful dialogue with all stakeholders. 'Nepal's student movement has been developing on the foundation of sacrificial struggle and has been continuously active in favor of the nation, nationality, democracy, social justice, educational reform, and student rights. Its history is not obtained through anyone's kindness, mercy, and grace. It has heroically presented its history on the foundation of the sacrificial struggle of the republican movement since the Rana regime,' the statement further said.
The statement also mentioned that the government's decision to ban and prohibit student organizations in the name of solving complex problems in the education sector, ignoring the historical background of the student movement, cannot give positive results in the long term. 'We believe that the government's approach of imposing the burden of all the problems in the education sector on the student organization, ignoring the fact that the state should determine its policies and programs after a detailed study to find and solve the real causes of the many problems existing in the university, is immature and superficial,' the statement said.
The student organization has clarified that the debate has come out of the realization that it is necessary to restructure the student movement in a time-relevant way. 'Efforts have been made to make the association/organization more disciplined, responsible and result-oriented by making various reform efforts, including the 28-year age limit in the SBU and the age limit in organizations. These practices have brought about positive changes to a large extent and their results are beginning to be seen in practice,” the statement said.
