Anshita Nanda: Candidate for Activities and Experience Rep

By Julie Capkova

As the whole campus prepares to decide on their future representatives, The Print has conducted interviews with several of the candidates. Every candidate running in the election was invited to take part in the interviews, but only some responded. Other candidates are available and students can see all of them on qmsu.org/elections. Anything mentioned in the text reflects the candidates’ opinions, not The Print’s. The length of the interviews does not imply preferences for a candidate, but instead ensures that we are factually reporting on their interviews. 

Anshita Nanda, running for the Activities and Experience Rep, says: ‘I decided to run because I saw a lot of issues that were not being addressed. Students are not going or attending enough events, which could be improved by the increased exposure or moving fundings.’

When asked what makes her the best option for this position, she replied: ‘I have interacted with different societies, I am a member of several societies. I am also a committee member of the Baking society. And this has given me an insight into what is working and what needs to be improved.’ 

The priorities she addresses in her campaign include the revision of societies funding, hosting more international events, and increased inclusion on campus. 

‘I noticed that there are a lot of societies which are actually not having any events or activities. People are paying 15 or 20 pounds for one membership, and they are not getting anything for it. I would like to learn which societies are actually performing or being active. And then have only those societies which are actively providing and holding events.’ She plans to revise this by regularly checking in on events, and further establishing certain criteria for societies to follow. Those would include the length of different events and the minimum of participants. She says that ‘narrowing down which societies are helpful and enjoyable for students and which are not,’ will be the first thing she will address if elected. Anshita wants to hold a general survey to learn this, and based on that decide which societies should be given a higher preference. 

When it comes to holding more varied events, Anshita says: ‘If I get elected, I would like to enforce a scenario where more varied options of events take place in societies, rather than just application events. Things like more workshops and others.’ She also mentions that: ‘There are a lot of international events that we are unable to attend because we don't have the funding for it. The current budget goes to societies which are not performing well. If we repurpose funding for those societies, we will have a better budget to allocate to societies which actually need those funding.’ Different events could be promoted through the use of social media. Bigger events would be promoted to other universities as well. She would also like to hold more summits. ‘Other universities have them and i would like to increase them at our university as well.’ 

When it comes to tearing down barriers on campus, Anshita proposes hosting more intercultural events. She believes that ‘if people understand each others’ cultures they will learn to respect it and each other more.’ 

When asked what she would consider a success at the end of her term in this position, Anshita stated: ‘I would consider it a success if we have more international events or summits, which would also increase the representation of our university,’ again referring to her manifesto points.

Anshita concludes by addressing directly the student body: ‘I’d like everyone to be kind to each other, because you never know what the other person is going through.’ 

Voting runs from 23rd March to 26th March 2026.