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Student-youth party in India From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Fraternity Movement is a student wing of WPI. The slogan of the movement is "Democracy, Social Justice and Fraternity".[1][2]
In 2017, Fraternity made its foray into politics by winning a seat in the college students council of the Maharaja's College in Ernakulam.[3] Fraternity Movement candidate Afreen Fatima won the student union elections of Jawaharlal Nehru University as a councillor in 2019.[4][5]
During the Anti-Citizenship protests that sparked India in December 2019, Fraternity Movement blocked the Calicut international airport.[6]
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Fraternity Movement was launched on 30 April 2017 at a student-youth convention held at Ambedkar Bhawan, New Delhi. Aligarh Muslim University Student Leader Ansar Aboobaker was elected as the first president.[7] Since its formation, the organisation has grown in many states including Kerala,[8] West Bengal,[9] Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka. Following the court verdict of Babri Masjid - Ram Janmbhoomi dispute, Fraternity Movement criticised the judgement stating Supreme Court has failed to uphold justice.[10]
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Afreen Fatima
Afreen Fatima is a student leader and National Secretary of Fraternity Movement. She is a prominent Muslim voice against the anti-Muslim policies of the Indian government. She studied MA in linguistics at JNU, where she also served as the elected councillor in JNU students' union 2019-20 from the school of Language, Literature and Cultural Studies. As a candidate from Fraternity Movement - BAPSA alliance,[11] she strengthened the call of "unity of the oppressed" and raised the issues of representation, discrimination and identity assertion.[12] Formerly, she has been the elected president of Women's College Students' Union at the Aligarh Muslim University for the session 2018-19.[13] She is known to have actively participated in the anti-CAA protests that started in 2019.[14] She faced several days long media trial after a small part of her speech was tweeted by BJP's national spokesman Sambit Patra.[15]
Aysha Renna
Aysha Renna is a Muslim Student Activist and National Secretary of Fraternity Movement. A Post Graduate in History from Jamia Millia Islamia, she is one of the leading voices of the Citizenship Amendment Act Protests.[16] She along with Ladeeda Farzana were called 'Sheroes of Jamia' by Barkha Dutt in an interview.[17] Her video of confronting baton wielding police officers to save her friend during a protest went viral.[18] She has travelled to all major Indian cities to address the Shaheen Bagh protest sites against Citizenship Amendment Act passed by the Indian government in 2019.[19] In January 2021, she was invited to speak at the Elgar Parishad along with Arundhati Roy, Kannan Gopinathan and Sharjeel Usmani.[20]
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