Fraternity Movement is a students' party in India working for strengthening democracy, social justice and fraternity. It is a growing student organization in many regions of India especially in

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and

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. The slogan of the movement is 'Democracy, Social Justice and Fraternity'. In 2017, Fraternity made its foray into politics by winning a seat in the college students council of the Maharaja's College in Ernakulam. Fraternity Movement candidate Afreen Fatima won the student union elections of

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as a councillor in 2019. During the Anti-Citizenship protests that sparked India in December 2019, Fraternity Movement blocked the international Calicut airport. Several members of Fraternity Movement, were jailed for their involvement in the protests.

History

Fraternity Movement was launched on 30 April 2017 at a student-youth convention held at Ambedkar Bhawan,

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Student Leader Ansar Aboobaker was elected as the first president. Since its formation, the organisation has grown in many states including Kerala, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka. Following the court verdict of Babri Masjid - Ram Janmbhoomi dispute, Fraternity Movement criticised the judgement stating Supreme Court has failed to uphold justice.

Prominent leaders

Afreen Fatima

Afreen Fatima is a student leader and National Secretary of Fraternity Movement. She is a prominent Muslim voice against the anti-Muslim policies of the Indian government. She is pursuing MA in linguistics at JNU, where she also serves as the elected councillor in

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2019-20 from the school of Language, Literature and Cultural Studies. As a candidate from Fraternity Movement - BAPSA alliance, she strengthened the call of "unity of the oppressed" and raised the issues of representation, discrimination and identity assertion. Formerly, she has been the elected president of

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Students' Union at the

for the session 2018-19. She is known to have actively participated in the anti-CAA protests that started in 2019. She faced several days long media trial after a small part of her speech was tweeted by

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's national spokesman

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Aysha Renna

Aysha Renna is a Muslim Student Activist and National Secretary of Fraternity Movement. A Post Graduate in History from

Jamia Millia Islamia Jamia Millia Islamia () is a central university located in New Delhi, India. Originally established at Aligarh, United Provinces (present-day Uttar Pradesh, India) during the British Raj in 1920, it moved to its current location in Okhla in ...

, she is one of the leading voices of the

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. She along with Ladeeda Farzana were called 'Sheroes of Jamia' by

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in an interview. Her video of confronting baton wielding police officers to save her friend during a protest went viral. She has travelled to all major Indian cities to address the Shaheen Bagh protest sites against Citizenship Amendment Act passed by the Indian government in 2019. In January 2021, she was invited to speak at the Elgar Parishad along with

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and Sharjeel Usmani.

Campus units

University of Hyderabad The University of Hyderabad (IAST: ''Hydarāvād visvavidyālayamu'') is a top ranking public central research university located in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. Founded in 1974, this mostly residential campus has more than 5,000 students a ...

University of Calicut The University of Calicut, also known as Calicut University, is a State ownership, state-run public university headquartered at Tenhipalam in Malappuram district of the state of Kerala, India. Established in 1968, it is the first university to ...

University of Delhi Delhi University (DU), formally the University of Delhi, is a collegiate central university located in New Delhi, India. It was founded in 1922 by an Act of the Central Legislative Assembly and is recognized as an Institute of Eminence (IoE) ...

Pondicherry University Pondicherry University, also known as PU, is a Central university (India), collegiate public central university located in Kalapet, Pondicherry in Union Territory of Puducherry, India. It was established by an Act of Parliament in 1985 by the ...

References

{{Reflist Student organisations in India Political parties established in 2017