Adarsh M Saji elected SFI national president, Srijan Bhattacharya general secretary
Saji hails from Chathannoor, Kollam. He was previously SFI state vice president and national joint secretary. He was the general secretary of the Kerala University student's union and a member of the university's academic council.
Bhattacharya, who served as national joint secretary, hails from Jadavpur, West Bengal. Holding a postgraduate degree in history, he is also a member of the CPM West Bengal state committee.
He contested the Singur Assembly seat in the last state election and was the Left Front candidate from Jadavpur in the Lok Sabha elections.
The meeting also elected an 87-member central executive committee.
SFI has called for a strong resistance against the central govt's move to distort history and saffronise and communalise the country's education sector, and to build an alternative to the flawed National Education Policy.
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