28th State Conference of ABVP Pashchim Banga unit will be held in Kolkata from April 9 to 10

The 28th State Conference of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishath (ABVP), will be held in Kolkata from April 9 to 10. About 125 delegates from various districts of the Pashchim Banga (West Bengal) and Sikkim unit are expected to participate in the two day conference.

Review of education policies of the government both at Central and State levels, impact of globalization on education, commercialization of education, corruption of UPA gevernment and many other issues concerning student welfare are the key points that would be discussed at the meet.

Issues relating to national integrity and security, status of economy, inflation, current political situation in West Bengal and several other topics will also be talked about.

ABVP''s protest march against corruption on March 4

Bhupal, PTI | Feb 18,2011: Accusing Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of protecting politicians involved in scams, Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) today said it will hold a protest march to the Parliament on March 4 to seek PM's resignation on moral grounds. "Singh was weak and helpless in checking corruption. He was protecting politicians involved in scams including 2G spectrum, Commonwealth Games and Adarsh Society," former ABVP General Secretary V D Sharma told reporters after wrapping up the Parishad's day-long silent hunger protest against corruption here.
Thousands of ABVP members will take part in a protest march to Parliament and seek PM's resignation against rampant political corruption plaguing the country, he said. Also, we want that Suresh Kalmadi, Sheila Dikshit and Ashok Chavan involved in different scams be arrested, Sharma said. He said the Centre should immediately announce a strategy to bring back the black money stashed in foreign banks and make public the names of such account holders and seize their unaccounted wealth. The circulation of notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 denomination should also be stopped immediately, Sharma demanded adding that it was fuelling corruption.

ABVP: 24hrs Hunger Strike against Corruption in Kolkata

Kolkata: Over 150 Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) activists in the city went on a 24 hours hunger strike on 17th Feb Thursday, 12 pm and is scheduled to continue till 18th Feb 12 pm 2011 at College Squire, in front of Calcutta University, Kolkata.

"This hunger strike has been called against loot of common people by present Central Government through various scams. ABVP has decided to intensify fight against corruption in the entire country through mass movement, ABVP will try to expose threesome, i.e., Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, which is responsible for scams like Adarsh Society, CWG, 2G specturm and in appointment of tainted peron on important post like CVC. ABVP demands resignation of so called "Mr Clean" Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on morality ground seems to be helpless in corruption issue, supporting corrupt people an also for his irresponsible statements regarding on going corruption." said Parul Mondal, State Secretary of ABVP.
This hunger strike is being held simultaneously by ABVP students in all the State capitals in the Country she added.

ABVP to launch indefinite agitation over price rise

Kolkata, Feb 16 : The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) will launch an indefinite agitation throughout the country against the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre over the price rise issue, party National Secretary Parul Mandal said here today.
Addressing a press conference here, Ms Mandal said, ''the Centre is responsible for the acute price hike much to the discomfort of the common people.
''Inflation is also shooting up to record levels of 18 per cent with an endless series of scams, including the Commonwealth Games, 2G Spectrum and Adarsh Housing society scam destroying the social fabric.'' She said the UPA government was responsible to control the commodities' hike as the Centre was involved in a series of scams.
We are asking the student community of the country to protest against the issue,'' she said.
The ABVP would organise a two-day nationwide students' hunger strike on February 17 and 18 in all the state capaitals against the price rise and scams.
The party workers would also organise 'March the Parliament House' on the issue on March 4 where at least 10,000 students will participate, she said.
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ABVP West Bengal Unit organized a massive protest rally against corruption in the Central UPA Govt. and the defamatory comments of Mr. Rahul Gandhi

The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), West Bengal Unit, had organized a massive protest-cum-rally against corruption in the Central United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government and the defamatory comments of Mr. Rahul Gandhi. The five-hundred strong ABVP karyakartas commenced at College Square wherein speeches were delivered along with forceful demonstrations by the youthful gathering. Then, the rally proceeded towards Metro Channel where mammoth demonstrations were held with strong, informative and vigorous speeches by Ms. Parul Mandal, National Secretary, ABVP and others. She led the protest demonstration and the gathering. The programme concluded with effigies of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, and Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi, being immolated. 

This was in furtherance of a Resolution at the National Conference of the ABVP, December 2010, inter alia, to hold nationwide protests against large-scale, massive corruption prevalent in the Congress Governments thrughout the length and breadth of India, be it in Maharashtra or the Centre. ABVP shall continue with these protests till the Central UPA Government resigns in response to these corruption scandals. ABVP shall remain seized of the matter as corruption hurts all and sundry, students included.

Math teacher received Kelkar Yuva Puraskar in Bangalore helps students scale class barrier to IITs

At the valedictory function of the Akhila Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), Patna-based, Anand Kumar has been felicitated, recognising his efforts in training students from economically backward families, to help them enter the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT).

Anand has received the Prof Yashwant Rao Kelkar Yuva Puraskar, Rs50,000 cash prize, and a memento. “We selected Anand because we were impressed with his ‘Super 30’ mission through which he has been training students from economically backward classes, without charging them any fee,” said N Ravi Kumar, national secretary of the ABVP.

Anand himself hails from an economically backward family. The Mathematics graduate, despite an offer from Cambridge University to do his master’s in 1994, was not able to do so because of financial barriers.

“I decided to do something for the poor, and this led to the setting up of Ramanujam School of Mathematics (RSM). I did my master’s in Mathematics and along with that started training students. In the next five years, I wanted to increase the number of students who attempt IIT entrance through our school to 500,” asserted a confident Anand.

In 2003, he started training meritorious students from economically backward families. Since then, 152 students cracked the IIT entrance and got placed in various IITs across the country. In 2008, 30 students succeeded in cracking the IIT entrance exams.

Anand generates funds for his ‘Super 30’ by tutoring other school students. Now he plans to attract students from across the nation as well. “We are chalking out a plan for that,” he said. Besides the training, Anand also provides food and accommodation to poor students.

Fight against corruption tops Akhila Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad plan

The four-day 56th national conference of the Akhila Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) concluded on Tuesday, after passing several resolutions, political and apolitical.

The ABVP passed four resolutions, including one calling for creating awareness among students about environment and another espousing agitation against the corrupt UPA government at the Centre.

The meet also resolved to protest against the commercialisation of education and to celebrate the 151st birth anniversary of Sir M Visvesvaraya across the country.

“Being a national student organisation, it is our responsibility to create awareness among students about environment. We will soon frame an action plan on this issue,” said Umesh Datta Sharma, national secretary (Himachal), ABVP.

“We have decided to celebrate Sir M Visvesvaraya’s 151st birth anniversary across the nation, as there is a need to make students aware of him and his contributions,” said N Ravi Kumar, national secretary (Karnataka) ABVP.

The ABVP will hold anagitation against corruption in the UPA government across the nation from January 6, 2011.

“We will organise public discussions, conduct protests against the recent scams like 2G spectrum and Commonwealth Games. We will stage a mass agitation against the UPA government,” said Sharma.

He also said that the agitation was not just against the scams, but also against the three important personalities in the UPA dispensation.

“All the recent scams have happened despite the prime minister being in the know of them. AICC president Sonia Gandhi and general secretary Rahul Gandhi are running the central government by remote control. We would like to ask them how these scams took place without coming to their notice. The purpose behind our agitation is to find answers to these questions,” said Sharma.

“There is no bias. If the member of parliament from Bangalore South, HN Ananth Kumar, is involved in the scam, let them conduct an inquiry. Let them take action as per the law if he is proved guilty,” he said.

“In the past few years, education has become a difficult thing to acquire for many poor meritorious students. We have decided to focus on this and will stage an agitation against the commercialisation of education at all the levels,” he said.

The ABVP leaders said that education should be made compulsory till the college-level by extending the scope of the Right to Education Act.“There is a need for quality education and both the Centre and state governments should give equal importance to it,” Sharma said.

(DNA)
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