The government and the ruling Left Democratic Front appeared to scramble to defend the Students Federation of India (SFI) leadership, which had recently come under a scathing attack from the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for alleged felonious conduct.
The SFI leadership had recurrently drawn flak from Opposition parties and also on social media, over the past several years, on a series of debatable charges.
The wide range of accusations against the SFI encompasses “examination and college union election fraud, subversion of varsity administration, cheating in PSC tests, stealing varsity examination answer papers, plagiarising doctoral theses, strong-arm tactics on college campuses, political intolerance, substance abuse, alcoholism, misogyny and wanton street violence, including the alleged attack on Rahul Gandhi’s local office in the Wayanad constituency last June.
