PaRCha - JNU - AISA material - 2010 ID-26882
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went on to organize .
From San Diego up to Maine, .
in every mine and mill, .
where working-men defend their rights, .
its there you find Joe Hill, .
its there you find Joe Hill! .
I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night, .
alive as you and me. .
Says I But Joe, youre ten years dead .
I never died said he, .
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-Alfred Hayes .
31 March 09: Chandu Tum Zinda Ho.... .
Yes, Im ambitious my ambition is to live like BhagatSingh and die like Che Guevara! .
Comrade Chandrashekhar during .
JNUSU Presidential Debate, 1994 .
Chandrashekhar Prasad, JNUSU President for two terms in 1994-95 and 1995-96, left JNU to become a whole time activist of the CPI(ML) in his hometown Siwan in Bihar. On March 31 1997, exactly twelve years back, while he was addressing a street-corner meeting at JP Chowk, Siwan, for Bihar Bandh against massacre of dalits, bullets sponsored by the local mafia-MP Shahabuddin sought to silence him. .
His journey began as an ordinary student in Sainik School Tilaiyya, who joined the NDA. However, he soon left the NDA, finding that it did not fulfil his deep desire to struggle against social injustice. He joined the Left movement as an activist of the CPI, becoming the Vice President of the AISF in Bihar. However, the politics of the CPI too was deeply dissatisfying for him. When he joined JNU in 1990, he was attracted to the radical politics of the then fledging organisation, AISA. He played an important role in AISAs formative years in JNU. .
From an AISA platform he was elected JNUSU Vice President in 1993, and President twice in the two successive years in 1994 and 1995. As a leader of the JNUSU, in 1994 Chandrashekhar led successful struggles for the restoration of deprivation points in JNU admissions which had been scrapped in 1983. He led a remarkable and massive agitation in 1995 which succeeded in foiling an attempt at imposing fee hikes and privatisation in JNU and initiated the move for creation of an autonomous body in JNU to look into cases sexual harassment. .
He resolutely resisted communal fascism and forged links of the student movement with peoples movements all over the country. Be it the protests against the rape of Bhanwari Devi in Rajasthan, the massacre of dalit landless poor at Bathani Tola, the Narmada Bachao movement against displacement of tribals in the name of development, the rape by police of activists of the Uttarakhand separate state movement in Muzaffarnagar, against state repression in the North east and Kashmir, against draconian laws like TADA and Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), Chandu made JNU students an integral part of all those movements. .
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PaRCha - JNU - AISA material - 2010 ID-26882
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went on to organize .
From San Diego up to Maine, .
in every mine and mill, .
where working-men defend their rights, .
its there you find Joe Hill, .
its there you find Joe Hill! .
I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night, .
alive as you and me. .
Says I But Joe, youre ten years dead .
I never died said he, .
.
-Alfred Hayes .
31 March 09: Chandu Tum Zinda Ho.... .
Yes, Im ambitious my ambition is to live like BhagatSingh and die like Che Guevara! .
Comrade Chandrashekhar during .
JNUSU Presidential Debate, 1994 .
Chandrashekhar Prasad, JNUSU President for two terms in 1994-95 and 1995-96, left JNU to become a whole time activist of the CPI(ML) in his hometown Siwan in Bihar. On March 31 1997, exactly twelve years back, while he was addressing a street-corner meeting at JP Chowk, Siwan, for Bihar Bandh against massacre of dalits, bullets sponsored by the local mafia-MP Shahabuddin sought to silence him. .
His journey began as an ordinary student in Sainik School Tilaiyya, who joined the NDA. However, he soon left the NDA, finding that it did not fulfil his deep desire to struggle against social injustice. He joined the Left movement as an activist of the CPI, becoming the Vice President of the AISF in Bihar. However, the politics of the CPI too was deeply dissatisfying for him. When he joined JNU in 1990, he was attracted to the radical politics of the then fledging organisation, AISA. He played an important role in AISAs formative years in JNU. .
From an AISA platform he was elected JNUSU Vice President in 1993, and President twice in the two successive years in 1994 and 1995. As a leader of the JNUSU, in 1994 Chandrashekhar led successful struggles for the restoration of deprivation points in JNU admissions which had been scrapped in 1983. He led a remarkable and massive agitation in 1995 which succeeded in foiling an attempt at imposing fee hikes and privatisation in JNU and initiated the move for creation of an autonomous body in JNU to look into cases sexual harassment. .
He resolutely resisted communal fascism and forged links of the student movement with peoples movements all over the country. Be it the protests against the rape of Bhanwari Devi in Rajasthan, the massacre of dalit landless poor at Bathani Tola, the Narmada Bachao movement against displacement of tribals in the name of development, the rape by police of activists of the Uttarakhand separate state movement in Muzaffarnagar, against state repression in the North east and Kashmir, against draconian laws like TADA and Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), Chandu made JNU students an integral part of all those movements. .
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