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Campus Front of India

Campus Front of India
Campus Front of India Flage.jpg
Official flag
Motto "Students for the social change"
Formation 2005
Type Student Organisation
Headquarters Abul Fazal Enclave 1, Jamia Negar, New Delhi-110025,India
National President
P V Suhaib
Vice President
Mohammed Thufail K M
Vice President
Athiya Firdouse
General Secretary
T Abdul Nasar
Website campusfrontofindia.org

The Campus Front of India is a student's organisation based in India. It was launched at New Delhi on November 7, 2009. The organization is intended to encourage student activism.

Campus Front of India protested against four year undergraduate programme(FYUP), which was to be launched at Delhi University. On June 20, 2013 it organized a signature campaign in more than 100 colleges of 20 universities across India.

Campus Front of India, Dakshina Kannada demanded handing over the Soujanya rape and murder case to CBI in a protest held in front of Deputy Commissioner's office in Mangalore. Several student activists were held by the police when they attempted to gherao the office. Later the case was handed over to the CBI.

The Campus Front of India had launched protest against the CBSE conducted AIPMT for including the scarf in its list of banned items. The AIPMT has also "banned" the scarf in the 2015 exams as well.

The banning had already created ruckus in 2015 with two Muslim students having to approach the Kerala HC for special permssion to don their Islamic attire, while a nun (who had not approached the HC) from the same state, was debarred from the exam.

Rohith Vemula's suicide sparked protests and outrage from across India and gained widespread media attention as an alleged case of discrimination against Dalits and low status caste in India, in which elite educational institutions have been purportedly seen as hotbeds of caste-based discrimination against students belonging to lower caste. Campus Front held termed his suicide as Institutional murder and held protests and demonstrations throughout the country.

Campus Front protested against the Mangalore One School Management for their irresponsible behavior after 4-year-old girl was sexually assaulted by the cab driver. Campus Front extended its support to Justice for Baby Nirbhaya Forum by United Muslim Organization and participated in massive Silent Candle Light at Mangalore.

Campus Front held a dharna at Sullia college as the teacher insisted five women students to remove their headscarf during a photo session at the college stating that they would look betterThe protesters ended their dharna only when the lecturer told that she would never ask students to remove their headscarf


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