The Students Federation of India (SFI) involved frauds are now turning copious in Kerala. With such plain chicanery, the efforts of thousands such students who toil all ways to attain success are proven dud. SFI has weaved a new normal to earn seats in prestigious colleges through malice. The strictly followed rules and notions are compromised for the rich in business; however the same is killing what Kerala once adorned in pride: its educational system.

The frauds and the malice are an abhorrence, nevertheless. However, one should fear not just the fraud. The audacity to defend such attempts in articulate words bereft of any guilt is worrying and more. In every college, the last word for admission comes from the principal. But the scenario is pathetic in most places. People sitting in the prized set of principals are just lackeys of the government. They worry simply about sticking to their seat lest do any probity.

SFI grabbed some amazing nerves yesterday to come forefront and advocate for the fraudster of MSM College. The organization defended Nikhil Thomas saying the certificates are all authentic. It took the Kerala University VC to quash all such fables which fell down like a pack of cards.SFI made a volte-face and was shamed in front of the public. The latest news comes as the left student organization has ousted Nikhil Thomas from the party, just one day after strongly shouldering support to him.

The college and the principal in MSM Alappuzha never cared to inspect such farce brought in by a student, and there exists a reason. He is simply not any student but the leader of one of the strongest political forces in Kerala. The tremor happened when Kalinga University came out against Nikhil. This made the Kerala University VC take the baton to charge ahead with criminal cases against the college management and principal.

It is not any naïve error commited from SFI. The organization has made it a staple to do fraud in universities for eons. The PSC fraud of three years back and the latest involving Maharaja’s College are testimony for the same. The SFI leader who duped a college in Attapadi by submitting a fake experience certificate is still at large. The celebrated police of Kerala are still playing cat and mouse with the SFI women leader. People loathe such gimmicks since they have long learned in detail about all such illicit bonhomie that exists between the police force and many student leaders.

SFI which should have worked for the betterment of students is killing many futures in better ways. The student leaders simply eye for individual upliftment; it would have been appreciated if it had some Genuity. No! the farce has traversed far beyond the limits of acceptance and one can only ask the government to step in to stop such efforts in the future. Nothing else.