AMUSU Gets Its First Women Members as Three Girls Win Election

This was the maiden election attempt for all the three women who passed with flying colours.

AMU maintains its minority status means a lot to the Muslims in the country. (Photo: The Quint)

In a first for Aligarh Muslim University, three women have bagged positions in the student union elections of the male dominated campus. Ghazala Ahmad, Sadaf Rasool and Labiba Sherwami have all won cabinet positions in the AMUSU.

The results come as a sigh of relief for the University that has garnered a bad name in the past by restricting library access for undergraduate women students.

Two of the three winning candidates belong to the Social Work department whereas Rasool is a final year student in BUMS.

This was the maiden attempt for all the three women.

When The Hindu contacted Ghazala Ahmad through phone, she said that she held the victory of three girls in their first attempt to be a “sign that students of AMU want to see more girls’ presence and participation in overall student politics”.

When asked by The Hindu reporter how she convinced a male-dominated electorate to vote for her, Ahmad said, “I told everybody on the campus that time has come to change outsiders’ perception of AMU. I told them, lets show the outside world that AMU campus is friendly and open to girls.”

(With inputs from The Hindu)

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