Immature students’ politics

Activists of SFI ransacking CMS College, Kottayam has invoked much criticism. The longstanding prestigious institution becoming a plaything in the hands a few immature students is curious to watch. The owners of the college, the CSI church, has now only realised the graveness of unripe students politics. When the neighbouring colleges like SB Changanachery was in crisis with similar agitations the CSI management was pretending to be more intelligent to sponsor student politics. CMS College is also known for political activity of teachers' union.

And it is conspicuous to see that no teacher organization has come in favour or against the agitation in the college. The annual general body of one organization was drafting future programme in a wider perspective when the nearby CMS College was erupted with violence. In fact, no agitation of the sort observed in CMS College should have evolved without the connivance of the teachers. A fellow teacher in the chair of Principal, even if he previously belonged to their association, is an enemy to the teachers. A student in a self financing course indulging in such coarse practice is unheard in the history. It is time to detach all self financing courses from aided colleges and to ban teacher-student politics in school and colleges. The logic in granting special privilege to teachers in aided schools and colleges to join political parties whilst their counter parts in government schools and colleges with the same service conditions, are being denied this opportunity is quite inexplicable. Ill-disciplined students falling in the hands of some crafty politicians and trying to teach the principal and the management a lesson are seemingly dire practices in the higher education sector of Kerala.
The student who has been expelled by the management is unfit to study in that college. His future is in politics as many hard-core criminals have had better rendezvous with politics.

K A Solaman