Hyderabad, Sept. 18 -- Cries of Jai Bheem, Lal Salaam, Intifada Inquilab reached a roaring crescendo in the University of Hyderabad (UoH) on Saturday evening, September 14, as a Muslim-Ambedkarite-Marxist-Leninist coalition was announced ahead of the student union elections for the first time in campus history.

The coalition, comprising the Ambedkar Students' Association (ASA), the All India Students' Association (AISA), the Muslim Students' Front (MSF), and the Fraternity Movement, marks a strong move against the growing Hindutva forces on the campus that coalesced in the premature dissolution of the Students' Union earlier this month.

The Muslim-majority panel, a first in the history of the student union in HCU, is headed by President...