Rashmi Samant resigns as Oxford Student Union President-elect after racism controversy
In her apology that was published in ‘The Oxford Student’, Rashmi said that she acknowledged her shortcomings over the years. I am willing to learn and apologize, she stated.
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UDUPI: Rashmi Samant, an alumna of Manipal Institute of Technology, MAHE, who created history by winning the prestigious Oxford Student Union Presidency on February 11, has quit the post after she was embroiled in a controversy over her alleged insensitive comments on social media that some termed ‘racist’.
Though Rashmi reportedly posted those comments a long time back, pressure was mounted on her to apologize and quit from the post. The first ever Indian woman to occupy the post resigned on Tuesday.
Rashmi Samant, Indian president-elect of Oxford student union quits over ‘racist’ social media posts
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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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