Outdated unions

Student wings of political parties are perfect reflections of the anomalies of their mother parties.

The shambolic 23rd general convention of the ANNISU (Revolutionary), the CPN (Maoist Centre) student wing, epitomises all that is wrong with student politics today. The convention had to be suspended last Wednesday after physical violence broke out on the convention floor, apparently over the failure to arrive at a consensus on the pick of certain delegates. That at least was the stated reason. The hard truth is that for antics like these, the ANNISU (Revolutionary), just like the student wings of other parties, is now battling irrelevance.