Campus Front of India

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The CFI actively took part in the Anti-CAA agitations across the country. Approximately thirty-eight members of Campus Front of Indians were arrested for organizing Collectors Gate Road blockade in Mangaluru on seventeenth of December 2019.{{cite news |last=Dev |first=Arun |date=2019-12-16 |title=As Karnataka Joins Protest Against CAA, 38 Arrested in Mangaluru |url=https://www.thequint.com/news/india/citizenship-bill-protests-38-arrested-in-karnataka-mangaluru |work=TheQuint }}{{cite news |date=December 17, 2019 |title=Campus Front activists protest against CAA, arrested |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mangaluru/campus-front-activists-protest-against-caa-arrested/articleshow/72780449.cms |work=The Times of India }} The protest was held to condemn the alleged police action against the students of Jamia Millia Islamia and AMU who protested against the new Citizenship Amendment Act. On February twenty-seventh 2020, fifty members were arrested for staging a Rajbhavan march in Bengaluru while protesting against the violence that took place in Northeast Delhi.{{cite news |date=2020-02-28 |title=Campus Front members protest in front of Raj Bhavan, detained |url=https://www.deccanherald.com/city/top-bengaluru-stories/campus-front-members-protest-in-front-of-raj-bhavan-detained-808762.html |work=Deccan Herald }}

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The organization held protests against the CBSE-conducted All India Pre Medical Test (AIPMT), for including the hijab and burqa in its list of restricted items in the examination halls. The AIPMT restricted head-coverings to discourage unfair practices during the examinations in 2015.{{cite news |date=14 April 2016 |title=Muslim students fight against dress code - The Siasat Daily |url=http://www.siasat.com/news/muslim-students-fight-dress-code-946026/ |work=The Siasat Daily }}

Earlier in 2022, the CFI allegedly encouraged six Muslim students at the Government PU College for Girls in Udupi to take a stand on the right to wear the hijab in the college premises.

The college previously restricted hijab as being incompatible with its uniform and dress code. The protest led to a huge row in the state of Karnataka, with rival groups of Hindu and Muslim students protesting against each other, and a writ petition in the Karnataka High Court.

Anusha Ravi Sood, [https://theprint.in/india/viral-photos-bruised-egos-radical-student-groups-inside-story-of-karnatakas-hijab-crisis/827262/ Viral photos, bruised egos, radical student groups: Inside story of Karnataka's hijab crisis], The Print, 11 February 2022.

The lawyer representing the college characterized the CFI in the High Court as the chief instigator of the dispute and a "rank radical organization".

[https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/bangalore/hijab-row-karnataka-hc-seeks-details-on-campus-front-of-indias-role-from-state-govt-7787624/ Hijab row: Karnataka HC asks for details as college counsel blames 'radical' outfit], The Indian Express, 24 February 2022.

The CFI met with the college authorities and the deputy director for pre-university education demanding that they should allow girls to wear hijab to attend classes.{{cite web |title=Behind The Hijab: The Karnataka Girls Who Will Not Be Intimidated, Segregated, Told What To Wear By Hindutva Groups |website=Article 14 |date=2022-02-21 |url=https://article-14.com/post/behind-the-hijab-the-karnataka-girls-who-will-not-be-intimidated-segregated-told-what-to-wear-by-hindutva-groups-6212f4018cf9e |access-date=2022-02-26}}

CFI held protests against the four year undergraduate program (FYUP), proposed at the Delhi University. On the 20th of June 2013, it organized a signature campaign in over 100 colleges of twenty universities in many parts of India.{{cite news |title=Campus Front of India takes anti-FYUP campaign to 20 universities across India - Times of India |url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/education/news/Campus-Front-of-India-takes-anti-FYUP-campaign-to-20-universities-across-India/articleshow/20680946.cms |work=The Times of India}}{{cite news |title=Campus Front organizes national wide Signature Campaign against FYUP |url=http://www.newstrackindia.com/newsdetails/2013/6/21/104-Campus-Front-organizes-national-wide-Signature-Campaign-against-FYUP.html |work=www.newstrackindia.com}}

After about two years of establishment of the lock-down, CFI along with other student organizations of Jamia Millia Islamia have demanded reopening of the campus at the earliest opportunity.{{cite news |title=Student Groups Mount Pressure On Jamia To Reopen Campus |url=https://www.ndtv.com/education/student-groups-mount-pressure-on-jamia-millia-islamia-reopen-campus |work=NDTV.com }}{{cite news |date=2021-09-21 |title=Student groups demand reopening of Jamia Millia Islamia campus |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/student-groups-demand-reopening-of-jamia-millia-islamia-campus-7523966/ |work=The Indian Express }}

CFI protested against the Mangalore One School Management for inaction after a four-year-old girl was sexually assaulted by a cab driver.

{{cite news |title=Mangaluru: Sexual assault on child - CFI demands closure of school |url=https://www.daijiworld.com/news/newsDisplay.aspx?newsID=310852 |work=www.daijiworld.com}}

{{cite news |title=CFI demands closure of Mangalore One School by June 1 |url=http://www.udayavani.com/english/news/mangaluru/54010/cfi-demands-closure-mangalore-one-school-june-1 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150702091328/http://www.udayavani.com/english/news/mangaluru/54010/cfi-demands-closure-mangalore-one-school-june-1 |archive-date=2 July 2015 }}

{{cite news |title=CFI protests against Mangalore One School, demands closure by June 1 |newspaper=Coastal Digest |url=http://coastaldigest.com/index.php/news/74460-cfi-protests-against-mangalore-one-school-demands-closure-by-june-1 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150629194757/http://coastaldigest.com/index.php/news/74460-cfi-protests-against-mangalore-one-school-demands-closure-by-june-1 |archive-date=2015-06-29 }}

It extended its support to Justice for Baby Nirbhaya Forum by the United Muslim Organization and participated in Silent Candle Light at Mangalore.

{{cite news |title=Justice for Mangaluru's 'Baby Nirbhaya' - Scores of people raise voice in unison |url=https://www.daijiworld.com/news/newsDisplay.aspx?newsID=305789 |work=www.daijiworld.com}}

{{cite news |title=Mangaluru holds candle light vigil seeking justice for 'Baby Nirbhaya' |newspaper=Coastal Digest |url=http://www.coastaldigest.com/index.php/news/73841-mangaluru-holds-candle-light-vigil-seeking-justice-for-baby-nirbhaya |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150629115021/http://www.coastaldigest.com/index.php/news/73841-mangaluru-holds-candle-light-vigil-seeking-justice-for-baby-nirbhaya |archive-date=2015-06-29 }}

{{cite news |title=Thousands march protesting against rape of LKG student |url=http://www.newskarnataka.com/mangalore/thousands-march-protesting-against-rape-of-lkg-student |work=NewsKarnataka}}

On November 9, 2019, Fathima Latheef, a nineteen year old first-year undergraduate student of Indian Institute of Technology Madras died by suicide in her hostel room in Chennai, allegedly due to the humiliation and religious discrimination she was facing from faculty members. CFI staged a protest outside IIT-Madras demanding that those responsible for her death must be punished.{{cite news |date=2019-12-13 |title=Campus Front demands action against IIT-M faculty over death |work=THE HINDU |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/campus-front-demands-action-against-iit-m-faculty-over-death/article30290536.ece}}

CFI Dakshina Kannada unit demanded that the Deputy Commissioner handed over the Soujanya rape and murder case to the CBI in a protest held in front of the Deputy Commissioner's office in Mangalore.{{cite news |url=http://www.deccanherald.com/content/365205/hand-over-saujanya-case-cbi.html |title=Hand over Saujanya case to CBI |date=25 October 2013}}

CFI on behalf of its Save Rohingya campaign organized a march to the Myanmar embassy protesting against the Myanmar government's atrocities against Rohingya people.{{cite news |title=Students protest against Myanmar atrocities on Rohingya Muslims |newspaper=Radiance Weekly |date=14 June 2015 |url=http://radianceweekly.in/portal/issue/maggi-in-a-soup/article/students-protest-against-myanmar-atrocities-on-rohingya-muslims/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150629164736/http://radianceweekly.in/portal/issue/maggi-in-a-soup/article/students-protest-against-myanmar-atrocities-on-rohingya-muslims/ |archive-date=2015-06-29 }}

File:Saalu Marada Thimakka.jpg on World Environment Day, 2015]]

CFI's Karnataka unit conducts the Green Campus campaign in June every year, through planting trees and cleaning school campuses in Karnataka. On 5 June 2015, (World Environment Day) the organization re-launched the campaign with a new name, Healthy Campus, hoping to widen its reach. Along with planting trees and cleanliness, it raised anti-drug and anti-tobacco awareness in schools. These activities helped the organization to gain a good name through social service, dimming allegations against it.{{cite news |url=http://www.newskannada.in/breaking-latest/kalladka-campus-front-health-program/ |script-title=kn:ಕಲ್ಲಡ್ಕ: ಕ್ಯಾಂಪಸ್ ಫ್ರಂಟ್ ಆಫ್ ಇಂಡಿಯಾ ವತಿಯಿಂದ ಆರೋಗ್ಯಕರ ಕ್ಯಾಂಪಸ್ ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮ |newspaper=News Kannada |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150630052501/http://www.newskannada.in/breaking-latest/kalladka-campus-front-health-program/ |archive-date=2015-06-30 |url-status=dead }}{{cite news |url=http://www.newskannada.in/featured-story/stop-selling-tobacco-at-near-college-campus/ |title=ರಾಷ್ಟ್ರೀಯ ತಂಬಾಕು ನಿಯಂತ್ರಣ ಕಾಯ್ದೆ ಸರಿಯಾಗಿ ಜಾರಿಗೊಳಿಸಿ-ಕ್ಯಾಂಪಸ್ ಪ್ರಂಟ್ ಆಫ್ ಇಂಡಿಯಾ – News Kannada |newspaper=News Kannada |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150630071301/http://www.newskannada.in/featured-story/stop-selling-tobacco-at-near-college-campus/ |archive-date=2015-06-30 |url-status=dead }}

CFI celebrated its 10th anniversary on the theme "Decade of Dignity". The conference was held on 6 November 2019 at the Talkatora Stadium in New Delhi.{{cite news |last=MuslimMirror |date=2019-11-05 |title=Campus Front of India to organize Dignity Conference on its 10th Anniversary |work=Muslim Mirror |url=https://muslimmirror.com/eng/campus-front-of-india-to-organize-dignity-conference-on-its-10th-anniversary/}} Kannan Gopinathan, an Ex IAS Officer, Shwetha Sanjeev Bhat, the wife of jailed Gujarat police officer, and Chinmaya Mahanand Ambedkarite addressed the gathering.{{cite news |last=Parvez |first=Behzad |title=Thousands Gather at Dignity Conference to Fight Communalism |url=https://clarionindia.net/thousands-gather-at-dignity-conference-to-fight-communalism/}}

The CFI was considered to be an involved party in the murder of Abhimanyu in the Maharaja's college Ernakulam during a clash with the SFI.{{cite news |url=https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/abhimanyu-murder-case-campus-front-india-leader-arrested-bengaluru-85454 |title=Abhimanyu murder case: Campus Front of India leader arrested in Bengaluru |date=26 July 2018 |work=The News Minute}}

{{cite news |url=https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/crime-beat/campus-front-activist-who-stabbed-abhimanyu-surrenders-1.4840437 |title=Campus Front activist who stabbed Abhimanyu surrenders |work=Mathrubhumi |access-date=17 January 2022 |archive-date=21 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200621090504/https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/crime-beat/campus-front-activist-who-stabbed-abhimanyu-surrenders-1.4840437 |url-status=dead }}{{cite news |url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/kerala/2018/jul/26/abhimanyu-murder-state-secretary-of-campus-front-arrested-1848891.html |title=Abhimanyu murder: State secretary of Campus Front arrested |work=The New Indian Express}}{{cite news |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kochi/abhimanyu-murder-campus-front-worker-in-custody/articleshow/65003869.cms |title=Kochi: Abhimanyu murder: Campus Front worker in custody | Kochi News - Times of India |work=The Times of India}}

The Enforcement Directorate concluded that substantive amount of funds were raised by the PFI along with affiliated organizations like the CFI to run terror camps, money laundering, and creating a riot atmosphere by promoting enmity between various religious groups.{{cite news |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/pfi-raised-substantial-funds-to-organise-terror-camps-in-kerala-ed/articleshow/80119725.cms |title=PFI raised substantial funds to organise terror camps in Kerala: ED | India News - Times of India |work=The Times of India}}{{cite news |url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/kerala/2021/feb/12/setback-for-ed-as-court-grants-bail-to-campus-front-of-india-leader-in-money-laundering-case-2263165.html |title=Setback for ED as court grants bail to Campus Front of India leader in money laundering case |work=The New Indian Express}}{{cite news |url=https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/kerala/rs-100-crore-sent-to-popular-front-of-india-s-bank-account-ed-1.5305265 |title=Rs 100 crore sent to Popular Front of India's bank account: ED |work=Mathrubhumi}}

According to TwoCircles online news agency, Campus Front announced an award named Ekalavya Award for Students with 'exceptional performance in higher secondary, poor backgrounds and hailing from marginalized communities'.{{Cite news |title=CFI announced Award for students |newspaper=Two Circles |date=2013-03-27 |url=http://twocircles.net/2013mar27/campus_front_india_elects_new_national_leadership.html}}

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