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New Delhi: In August, the National Students Union of India (NSUI), the student wing of the Congress, decided to hold a training camp for its office-bearers in Himachal Pradesh, one of the three states currently governed by the party...
Former Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student leader Anshul Trivedi, who had joined the Congress along with Kanhaiya Kumar and Jignesh Mevani in September 2021, posted the schedule of the camp on a WhatsApp group meant for the NSUIs national office-bearers (NOBs)...
Messages started pouring in, requesting the NSUI leadership, including Kanhaiyathe All India Congress Committee (AICC) in-charge of the bodyto reschedule the camp...
Kanhaiya, for instance, was not just made the AICC in-charge of the NSUIa key post that is supposed to act as a bridge between the party and the student bodybut also contested, and lost, the 2024 general elections from the North-East Delhi parliamentary constituency...
Kanhaiya was entrusted with the post of AICC NSUI in-charge in July 2023, two months before the high-stakes Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) polls, which were being held after three years...