Students For Society
| ਸਮਾਜ ਲਈ ਵਿਦਿਆਰਥੀ | |
SFS claims to follow the Ideology of Shaheed Bhagat Singh
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| Abbreviation | SFS |
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| Formation | 2010 |
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President
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Damanpreet Singh |
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Press secretary
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Harman Deep |
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Main organ
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People’s Artist Forum |
| Website | www |
The Students For Society (SFS) was founded in Panjab University, Chandigarh on September 2010 as a students' discussion group for holding discussions on books and social issues. It rejected the politics of muscle and money power by mainstream political parties in University. It also rejected the politics of those who were trying to get votes by offering movie shows, dinners, trips and beauty parlour coupons. SFS takes out its rallies on foot with singing of slogans with a Tambourine (Dafli) while other parties took out rallies in cars. Its rallies are joined by a considerable number of campus students while the SOI, PUSU and NSUI alliances had to call outsiders in violation of the Lyngdoh panel norms.
It is commonly seen that other student organisations spent several lakhs of money on campaigning, banners, stickers, discothèque parties, car rallies, trips to hill stations, free meals, flash mobs, online campaigns but SFS members organised street plays mocking these other outfits. One such play by SFS in 2016 was Melan vottan da which was a satirical take on the student elections.
In 2016 Panjab University Campus Students Council elections, SFS gave an impressive performance with its presidential candidate Amritpal Singh coming on third position with 2494 votes. It was however a close contest between PUSU and Students For Society (SFS) for the president's post. SOI was continuously on the third position but after the counting of votes of University Institute of Information and Technology (UIET) department that SOI presidential candidate secured the second position.
Since 2012, SFS organized fee hike protests and raised voice against sexual harassment on the campus, unhygienic diet in the hostels and for banning of four-wheelers inside campus making the PU a vehicle-free zone. In February 2017, the SFS also organised protest at campus on an incident of rape of 16 Scheduled Tribe (Adivasi) women in Chhattisgarh. In 2017 Fee hike protests 40 SFS-affiliated students were arrested to which it said there is a 'deliberate attempt' being made to restrict the voice of students in universities.
In March 2017, SFS was objected by PU authorities and RSS student wing, Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), when it brought activist Seema Azad to the campus. Azad was dressed as a Sikh woman, addressed the students on the topic 'Rise of fascism'. The ABVP had maintained that it would oppose her with swords and sticks.
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