11-11-2006, 05:09 PM
<b>US student is first to win JNU election in India</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->New Delhi, November 11: A US citizen on Saturday became the first foreigner to win a student election at prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University after mounting a campaign critical of US foreign policy.
<b>Tyler Walker Williams, a student of Hindi, was elected Vice-President of the students' union of JNU</b>, which has produced many of the country's top politicians.
Williams, is the first foreign student to win elections at the school and is said to be the first foreigner to win a student election in India.
<b>He represented a union affiliated to a Communist Party,</b> which has held sway over the university's student body for decades.
"When students see an American attached to an (Indian) students' movement, and when he opposes American colonialism, it raises curiosity," Tyler told a TV channel.
In his campaign, Tyler voiced opposition to the Iraq war and said most Americans were against President George W Bush's foreign policies, as was evident from this week's US Congressional elections.
Tyler, in his late 20s, has been at JNU for six years
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<b>Tyler Walker Williams, a student of Hindi, was elected Vice-President of the students' union of JNU</b>, which has produced many of the country's top politicians.
Williams, is the first foreign student to win elections at the school and is said to be the first foreigner to win a student election in India.
<b>He represented a union affiliated to a Communist Party,</b> which has held sway over the university's student body for decades.
"When students see an American attached to an (Indian) students' movement, and when he opposes American colonialism, it raises curiosity," Tyler told a TV channel.
In his campaign, Tyler voiced opposition to the Iraq war and said most Americans were against President George W Bush's foreign policies, as was evident from this week's US Congressional elections.
Tyler, in his late 20s, has been at JNU for six years
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