Student politics, then and now
We have a glorious history of student politics. From the language movement in 1952 to the movement of dethroning the autocratic government in 1990, our students played a crucial role in national politics and proved their worth. Now, in national politics, we have many political leaders who once played vital roles when they were students. We cannot but acknowledge their contribution to national politics. But, unfortunately, what we now experience from our student folk regarding politics is really shocking and ironic. Nowadays, our students concentrate more on politics, an easy shortcut, to them, to being healthy and wealthy, rather than their first and foremost duty-- study. So the result is predictable and in most cases it is found accurate. Now our students seem to be student-cum-businessman.
Now our students have no thinking power of their own. They only work as their godfathers guide them. In the past the students would dominate politics but now they are being dominated by politics and are working as the puppets in the hands of political leaders. Our political leaders seem to be indifferent to the fact, lest they should become powerless without the students. They should give up this evil mentality and work for a positive change of society, not their own future, and at the same time our students should also go by their conscience.
It is high time our government took necessary steps to bring a positive change in student politics for the greater welfare of the country.
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