Activists leaving student political platform after being socially alienated
While in some countries there is a rising trend of youths, including students engaging in politics, especially the various wings of the ruling quarters, in a parallel world, the youths and students in the Republic of Mango People, or Mangoland, are leaving any kind of political engagement after facing widespread alienation from society.
Talking to this correspondent on multi-dimensional communication platform Heartbook, AKAM Babu, a student of Political Arts at Khola University, lamented that he has become frustrated after being given the "silent treatment" at home and beyond ever since he had joined the student wing of the ruling Mango Achaar League (MAL).
"I don't know how to explain how I felt. Nobody even spoke a single word with me for months. I felt like a ghost even in my own home. Nobody even asked me once 'Babu khaiso?'… it was so frustrating that I could hardly bear it," he said.
"I felt as if I was an animal in a zoo, where the zookeepers just fed me food three times a day without even caring about me at all."
"It's not just me, almost everyone in our students' organisation have been receiving similar alienation from the rest of society. We were treated as if we hardly exist. How long can you go through this?" AKAM Babu said.
Contacted, MAL General Secretary Eilok Kadder said it could be a temporary trend or some conspiracy of the opposition.
"We will look into the matter," Kadder, also the off-road transport and broken bridges minister, said.
The trend reportedly became more apparent after some activists of the student front were accused of gang-raping a woman, which caused a nationwide total silence, followed by the mass alienation.
On condition of anonymity, one former activist of the student organisation said they got interested to join the platform after coming to know that similar platforms in some countries were ensuring impunity to their activists no matter what crimes were they engaged in.
"In those countries, if they try to rape a woman, or tease them in public transports, or in the crowd, nobody bats an eye since everyone steers clear of them to avoid getting into trouble. Here in Mangoland the situation is in stark contrast. Here if you are found trying to do anything to a woman, people would come out in droves and beat the stuffing out of you," he said.
"The law enforcers in those countries are even sometimes found to provide shelter and support to the student and youth leaders of the ruling quarters. Here, cops take it for granted that if you are an activist of the ruling party's youth body then you are definitely into crimes and they would simply put you behind the bars in some random cases, or make you disappear, only to appear in some remote, bordering areas after a few months and then arrest you for 'trespassing', how weird is that?" he said, once again requesting anonymity.
This correspondent tried to collect opinions of some people from non-political background but they all declined to comment, in fear of becoming political, which is a bad look.
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