{"id":262729,"date":"2025-04-19T01:06:49","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T19:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=262729"},"modified":"2025-04-19T01:06:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T19:36:49","slug":"yari-nayam-a-voice-for-marginalised-in-jnu-student-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2025\/04\/19\/yari-nayam-a-voice-for-marginalised-in-jnu-student-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Yari Nayam: A voice for marginalised in JNU student elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>[ Akishe L Jakha ]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yari Nayam, a 27-year-old PhD scholar from Arunachal Pradesh, is contesting for the position of general secretary of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students&#8217; Union (JNUSU).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nayam&#8217;s campaign is built on a powerful vision of structural inclusion of marginalised students. Her candidacy marks a significant moment in student politics, especially for communities that have long been underrepresented in institutional spaces.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hailing from Daporijo in Upper Subansiri district, Nayam&#8217;s journey from being a government school student to a researcher at JNU speaks volumes about her resilience and commitment to social justice. Her campaign is centred around a three-fold vision: Voice, Visibility, and Access.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She advocates structural inclusion of marginalised students, including tribal, Dalit, queer, disabled, and first-generation learners.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nayam&#8217;s involvement in student organising at NEHU (Shillong) and later as co-convener of the Northeast Students&#8217; Forum at JNU has already made tangible contributions to student welfare.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Given the unique and compelling nature of her story and platform, her candidacy deserves national attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ Akishe L Jakha ] Yari Nayam, a 27-year-old PhD scholar from Arunachal Pradesh, is contesting for the position of general secretary of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students&#8217; Union (JNUSU). Nayam&#8217;s campaign is built on a powerful vision of structural inclusion of marginalised students. Her candidacy marks a significant moment in student politics, especially for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262733,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-262729","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}