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tlW AISA Halls .JNU Students' For Spirited Protest With Black Flags.

Against Killer Policies of Manmohan Singh on His Visit to JNU ! .

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14.11.05.

Protest Against Violent Attack on Protestors Launched by NSUI-JPF-ABVP.

Under the Patronage of Administration and Police !.

OnPMManmahanSingh's visit to JNU today,students protested againstthe UPA Governmenrs anti-people policies by showingblack .

flags. Students dared to voice their spiritedprotestagainsttheArmed Forces Special Powers Act,the Patents AmendmentAct,the police .

atrocity on workersin Gurgaon and students InGaro Hills, as well as the UPA Govemmenrs pro-US foreign policy and economic policy1 and .

its compromisewith communal forces.While AISA and otherdemocratic groups protested,while the SFI-AISF held back from the.

patronised the violence by ABVP..JPF and NSUIIumpens.Several AI SA activists including women students were roughed up and .

protes~ the ABVP and NSUI joined hands to attackthe peaceful prot8stors physically.The police and JNU Administration tacitly.

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sufferedinjuries. .

JNUstudents have had aglorious tradition of feartessly expressing dissentagainst those in power: this campus showed black flags to .

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Indira Gandhi during Emergency and protested against Advani's visitin 1996.Today's protest has kept alive that tradition. I Protest and dissent is the very life breath ofdemocracy.NSUIand ABVP-defendersofthe brutal anti-people policies ofthe Congress .

and BJP-tell us that to protestagainst the PM is "anti-nationalo, and that the protestors have "tarnished JNU's !mage" by failing to welcome .

the PM. Let u~ask ourselves,do we "welcome".

The killers in the uniform of the Assam Rifles,who raped Manorama Devi in Manipur?.

Thepolice who re-enacted Jallianwala Bagh in Gurgaon and watched as Dalit homes were torched in Gohana?.

The police bullets which killed students in Garo Hills?.

The political leaders who burned Sikh youth alive in 1984,or Musli~in Gujarat?.

The IMF-Wortd Bank-dictated economic policies that force our farmers to commit suicide, that rob us of ourright to employment, .

that reserve education for the rich and that hand overour Iandi water and key sectors of our economy to MNCs?.

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The killerPatent Laws that snatch health and medicine from the reach of the poor?.

The sellout of India's sovereign foreign policy by voting against Iran in the IAEA at US dictates?.

Hownationalisris it to "welcome the above killer policies? Ifnot, how can we "welcomeA the very person who is implementing these.

itis also protecting the perpetrators ofthe Gujarat carnage.Manmohan Singh recently refusedto makeavailablethe late KR policies,who is responsible forthem? The UPA Governmenthas notonly continued with theNDA'seconomic andforeignpolicies,.

Narayanan's letter toVajpayeeregarding Gujarat,to the Nanavati Commission. ..

Can we hear Manmohan Singh's speech to us on 'Children's Day', and remainsilent about the children yourmen in uniform .

killed in Kupwara and Garo Hills?.

Today's events reflect national politics perfectly: the Congress and BJP may claim to be sworn enemies, but inthe face of .

radical opposition, they unite forces to launch repression on dissenters! And the CPI and CPI(M), for all their show of .

"opposition", limit themselves to token, paper protest, and stand by and watch the ruling classes launch repression on .

struggling peoplelin campus too, thebroad unity between the entirespectrum o*' ruling parties andtheir allies was all too .

obvious: NSUI and ABVP and JPF dissolved all their differences and unitedly Indulged in lumpenism. And SFI-AISF, by its .

silence against the NSUI-ABVP-JPF violence,and by clapping for Manmohan Singh's speech, exposed the fact that they too,.

love forManmohan. For the SFI-AfSF, "protest" against Manmohan was merely acompulsion ofappearing radical in JNU: in .

supportthe same policies as these parties!tnspiteofstarting with apretence ofprotest, SFI-AISF lostno time to reveal theirtrue.

reality, they have been eager to we/come him as aguest ofhonour in various ideological fora oftheCPI(M)-notably the Sliver .

Jubilee celebrations ofCPI(M) Telugu Party Organ Prajashakti last August. Believe it or not1 Manmohan, ideologueof neo· .

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liberalism,wasalso invited to release a book on Globallsation byCPI(M)'s own ideologue, the lateBiplab Dasgupta!.

SFI-AiSF is trying to hide itsown reluctanceto protest by claiming that theJNUSU President.

JNUSU, had "agreed.. foran inauguration by Manmohan. To "prove" this, they are citing an Administrativecommunique. This .

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communique makes itVERY CLEAR thatthe decision to invite Manmohan was apre-decidedfact unilaterallyconveyed by the ~ during her tenure inthe lastVC in the meeting,and was in no way "decided" or "agreed to" by the JNUSU President..

NSUI1S hunger strike Is nothing but asham to cover up its criminal attack on peaceful protestors.All its leading leaders and .

activists-including Wasim Sagar Azmi, PrashantSlngh, NS Nag,Nikhil Chaudhury,Zahid, Madhumita,MarufHussaln,Chandan, Vijay, .

Barton, Councillor Rop John along with JPF leaders ManinderSingh Chauhan, Pranlt,Gopal, Rahul Rai, Navneet and several others from .

ABVP, JPFandNSUI were publicly involved in abusing and assaulting the protestors. Several protesting students wereinjured-including .

women students.The way in which the police force protected and encouraged the goons clearly shows that the JNU Admin. used these goons .

as henchmen to attack the protestors. This method of Admin,to use hooligans to deal with apeaceful, democratic expression ofdissent, is .

commonin other Universities, but is adangerous new trend in JNU, and is amatterof grave concern..

AISA along with other demcratic student groups will hold aprotestmeeting tonight against theviolenceby ABVP-NSUI.

action to punish those who blatantly attacked and injured peaceful protestors. .

lumpens patronised by the JNU Admin. and the police, and will continue the protestto demand that the Administration take.

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ad/-Chandan Kumar,jt.secy., AISA, JNU .

sd/-Rajesh Ranjan,jt.secy., AISA, JNU .

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