Politics and Manipal

"POLITICS IS A VERY DIRTY GAME"

When you look up the sleeve of a politician in general, it seems quite convincing that politics is a dirty game and its not everyone's piece of cake.
Politics is everywhere. At school,college,office,heck sometimes even at home.
Then how can the city i am currently residing in be left behind.

POLITICS AND MANIPAL...!

A Decade ago Manipal University was given an affiliation of deemed university by the UGC (University Grants Commission). Before being called as a deemed university, Manipal Academy of Higher Education was under the VTU (Visvesvaraya Technological University).

The VTU is a state university of Karnataka. It gave affiliation to most of the colleges in karnataka.
There were various student unions during that time which looked after the problems and welfare of the students.

Elections were conducted during those times to select the student union leaders and the union secretary who look after all the various unions at different colleges at different places..!!!

Even manipal was not left behind in the game of politics...!!!
There were several student unions,which still operate in the local colleges nearby.

Some of the unions of that time are JDSU( Janta Dal Youth Congress) and a Youth Congress, both the unions are sponsored by their respective political parties.
These political parties fund the unions for their campaign and during elections.
These funds are used to help them win their elections which help them gain various positions and power within the district and the college level.

During these times along side elections a lot of illegal activities are also done.....there has been various incidents of shootings,killings,bribery,booth capturing,etc. etc.

Finally the union which gets the highest no. of votes wins the elections and among them the ruling union is formed.....and then the president and the vice president is chosen with the various students forming the students council.

Mr. Bipin Ray, a former district union president and the present co-owner of ENIGMA(a famous pub in manipal) said that politics at those time were very violent game to play, but with the manipal university becoming deemed,political parties have been kept at bay.
He also said that he was once attacked by various people during the election times, during which he cut one of his thumbs(showing up his left hand) with a healed up bruise over his thumb.

I also tried to contact Mr. Sandeep Singh a pass out of the 1998 batch for his comments on the politics at those times,but he was unavailable for any comment.

And our university is a politics free environment.....!!!