Will Support Candidates Displaying Commitment to Non-voter CA Students

I am a non-voter. I am not even a CA or a future CA. Maths or accounts are my weak subjects. Political Science and interpretation of law are my strength. My exasperated mother feels that I will not have a successful law career but can do a better job  opening up a photostat shop outside a court. 

Some members of my faculty have gone out of way to fail me in practicals (mercifully it is done by external examiners who give me outstanding marks) but I get my assignments red-penciled by some of the faculty. 

They hate it when I bring debating shield to the institute. They hope I will get proper snubbing from the Judges in the Court. Some are downright optimistic that I would be jailed for Contempt of Court, and be disqualified to ultimately fulfill the prophecy of my mother.  

But they all agree on one point: that I speak my mind. That I raise my voice when I feel a wrong is being committed. I have openly criticized the money play in Bar council elections and they malpractices that go with it.

I have been campaigning through these columns to bring transparency into the examination and evaluation system. This was being resisted by ICAI for the last several years.

When they were bulldozed into implementing it, people were shocked to see how some callous examiners played with the lives of students, and wrongly failed them. Names of such examiners need to be made public.

If mothers of such CA students could have their way, they would physically beat such villains with brooms. Imagine the sacrifice and anguish of mothers when they try to coax such students to eat while they are bust studying till late at night, and rush out without breakfast early in the mornings to attend coaching classes.

Imagine the parents who do whatever is in their means to enable their children to achieve in life, what they themselves could not because of constraints in their childhood. It is like fulfilling their un-achieved dreams through their children.

I have only one agenda for the forthcoming elections : Speak up for the silent non-voter and I will support such candidates who display empathy to the students. Those who feel it is not a big issue, will witness scathing criticism from me, howsomuch I may personally respect them.

I am warning Mr. Amresh Vashisht that if he softens up his stand on this issue, he will have to contend with my opposition to him, even if he were to block and ban me from his group.

My request with folded hands to all candidates : while campaigning to existing CAs, also please demonstrate your commitment to changing the system in favour of future CAs.

Kind regards,

Rebecca