Indian-origin Rashmi Samant was the first Indian woman to be elected as the President of the Oxford University Students Union. However, her achievement was short-lived as she was forced to resign within a few days.
A student of MSc energy systems at Oxford University, Samant was forced to resign within five days of her appointment over several of her social media posts which were labelled to be anti-Semitic and racist.
Rashmi Samant, Indian president-elect of Oxford student union quits over ‘racist’ social media posts
India
Updated: Friday, March 12, 2021, 9:38 [IST]
New Delhi, Mar 12: After being elected the first Indian woman president of the University of Oxford s Students Union, a 22-year-old student from Karnataka s Udupi was forced to quit after some of her old social media posts that were deemed to be racist and insensitive .
Rashmi Samant, a student of MSc in Energy Systems, contested the elections for Presidency of Student Union and won the election. She had positioned herself as an inclusivity candidate in the election and campaigned to decolonise the Oxford syllabus and to remove all statues proven to be imperialist, including that of Christopher Codrington at the Conference of Colleges.
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