K K Suhail
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K.K. Suhail was the National President of the largest student organisation of Asia
Asia
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...

, the Students Islamic Organisation of India
Students Islamic Organisation of India
Students Islamic Organization of India is the students' wing of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind. Students Islamic Organisation was formed in 1982. According to its constitution, it aims at presenting Da’wah before students and youth, promote virtues, and moral values in educational institutions.The...

. He took charge from Mr Bishruddin Sharqi in December 2008. More than hundred representatives of SIO from all states took part in three day long election process in New Delhi
New Delhi
New Delhi is the capital city of India. It serves as the centre of the Government of India and the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi. New Delhi is situated within the metropolis of Delhi. It is one of the nine districts of Delhi Union Territory. The total area of the city is...

 from 15 to 18 December 2008 and elected Suhail as the President of SIO. K.K. Suhail, aged 28, with educational qualification: M.Com in Travel and Tourism is from Kannur, Kerala
Kerala
or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....

 and he is the former PR Secretary of the organisation, which has lakhs of associates across the country.

This group of students has been in news for its stem opposition of sex education
Sex education
Sex education refers to formal programs of instruction on a wide range of issues relating to human sexuality, including human sexual anatomy, sexual reproduction, sexual intercourse, reproductive health, emotional relations, reproductive rights and responsibilities, abstinence, contraception, and...

 last year which culminated in national campaign by most of the Muslim and other organizations which eventually forced many state governments to withdraw sex education proposals.

K K Suhail said, ‘Students’ and education issues are always marginalized in every election debates and people of the country are always misguided by vested interest politicians and communalists’. SIO is going to chalk out a detailed program for it in January 2009 in which newly elected members of Central Advisory Council will take decisions about their next steps to intensify struggle for social justice in education vis-à-vis political challenges before the nation.

See also

  • Jamaat-e-Islami Hind
    Jamaat-e-Islami Hind
    Jamaat-e-Islami Hind is one of the influential and hardline Islamic organization and movement within Sunni Islam in India...

  • Students Islamic Organisation of India
    Students Islamic Organisation of India
    Students Islamic Organization of India is the students' wing of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind. Students Islamic Organisation was formed in 1982. According to its constitution, it aims at presenting Da’wah before students and youth, promote virtues, and moral values in educational institutions.The...

  • Maulana Maududi
  • Jalaluddin Umri
    Jalaluddin Umri
    Syed Jalaluddin Umri Syed Jalaluddin Umri Syed Jalaluddin Umri (Urdu: السيّد جلال الدین عمری Arabic: سيّد جلال الدین العمری(Born in 1935) is the present Amir of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind...

  • Yusuf Islahi
    Yusuf Islahi
    Muhammad Yusuf Islahi is a popular writer on Islam. He is a scholar, writer and an orator. He is a member of topmost decision-making and leadership organ of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, the Markazi Majlis e Shura...

  • Sadat Husaini
    Sadat Husaini
    Syed Sadatullah Husaini is the former National President of Students Islamic Organisation of India and Member of Central Advisory Council of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind. He also heads the Study and Research Department of JIH as its Director...


External links

  • http://www.sio-india.org
  • http://www.siokerala.org
  • http://siokarnataka.com/
  • http://www.jamaateislamihind.org
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