All National Free Students' Union-History ::::::

As the anti Rana movement in Nepal developed and sharpened the Rana and other reactionaries tried their best to safeguard the Rana oligarchy. They invited the Indian reactionaries for the successful implementation of their conspiracies against the people. The then Indian Prime Minister Nehru took exceptional initiative in masterminding the 'Delhi Pact', the forestall against the peoples' revolution being waged against the exploitation system. He hatched the Rana rulers, the Congress party and the King Tribhuvan to reach the 'agreement'. The students had well measured the plot and the hatches. They firmly opposed it. On 20th Kartik 2008 B.S. (i.e. around Nov. 5, 1952) the students held a huge mass rally in Kathmandu against the entry of the Indian army inside Nepal, against anti-people laws and on some glaring questions of the time. Besides thousand of students, it was attended by large cross-section of workers, peasants and other classes. Mad at their anti-people plot being laid; bare, the Home Minister of the Rana-Congress Coalition Government, B.P. Koirala coldly ordered the armed police to charge on the peaceful rally. One of the students' leader Chiniya Kaji was ruthlessly murdered and several other students were injured. That day is still being observed as the Memorial Day for the martyrs against domestic reactionaries. The students also played an important role in the "National Democratic United Front" organized in 1954 against domestic reactionaries and Indian expansionists. The All Nepal Students' Federation (ANSF) vehemently opposed the suppression by the reactionary Government and actively participated in and by supported the people's struggle. Before the leadership of the ANSF being captured by the Russian lackeys, it organized several movements, the remarkable ones beings 1953 movement against Education Rules, 1954 movement against Gandak agreement, the movement against the Treaty to install the Indian military mission in Nepal and the Indian check-post in the northern border of the country and those in support of the peasant movements. In commendation of the dignity it earned for its important role among the people, the ANSF was granted full membership of the International Students Union in 1954.

The ANSF days were not without tortuous experiences. It has constantly to fight back all kinds of intrigues of the so-called "Chhatra Sangh" (Students Union) backed by the Indian expansionists and domestic reactionaries. There was a temporary division among progressive, democratic and patriotic students in 1956. The division is denoted by the functioning of the Inter College Students Union in parallel with ANSF, where as the objectives of the both was one and the same. However, the experience of the past struggle did not allow the agony of division to stay long. In 1957, the progressive, democratic and patriotic students successfully held their unity Conference and the ANSF came out with much more strength, vigor and organization. There was the "Civil Disobedience" movement in 1958 and in 1959, ANSF launched various movements against Gandaki and Kosi agreements conducted by the Nepali Congress, the local agent of the Indian expansionism; against the treaty to import vegetable ghee, to the menace of the indigenous ghee industry; against the unequal treaty of trade and Transit, these plus the movements to oppose the stationing of the US-CIA tool peak-corps, to oppose vehemently and lay bore the sinister plot of the Indian expansionists to annex Nepal by maintaining the "special relations"; constitute the contribution of the Nepalese people to the struggle against imperialism and expansionism.

The ANSF national conference was scheduled for the February 1961. The intervening Black Action of 16th December 1960 forestalled the conference, and the ANSF went underground for the time being. To re-establish the ANSF among the students and to chalk of the program for the changed context, a plenum at Muzzaffarpur, India in 1962. Following the plenum, some people usurping the leadership betrayed and became Government agents. Several others turned to be passive thus fainted away the image of the ANSF among the students. The failure of the ANSF to revive its image in the changed context owes to its lack of correct and resolute leadership, not being vigilant enough to check the reactionary penetration and not being mentally prepared to outlive the severest suppression by the reactionaries.