She also spoke about the politics of the ‘Azadi’ slogan, JNU’s changing political culture, the Left’s electoral decline, Naxalbari, and Umar Khalid. If we had not seen students lead mass movements in 2019, many of us might never have become student activists. It was different in a way that the anti-CAA protests were labelled Muslim protests, farmers’ protests Khalistan. Story continues below this adCritics say student politics is a training ground for political careers, while the Left has lost electoral ground and resorted to mere student politics for sustenance. We’ve done student politics since the 1990s.