PaRCha - JNU - AISF-SFI - 2005 ID-38591
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STUDENTS' FEDERATION OF INDIA .
UPHOLD THE ACADEMIC AND DEMOCRATIC FORA OF OUR UNIVERSITY!! .
EXPOSE THE SECTARIAN BANKRUPT POLITICS OF AISA!! .
Friends, Date: 28-08-05 .
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The high academic standard of our University is a resutt of the painstaking efforts of the student community and the .
teachers to reach higher level of academic exce"-'"ce. The academic community of our University has always adhered to the .
academic and democratic fora like the Committee ror Advanced Studies and Research (CASR), the Board of Studies in different .
Schools and Academic Council to ensure academic competence. In the case of research, hence for the admission to all post-.
graduate disciplines too, it is the CASR, which is the competent and legitimate academic body to judge the eligibiflty and quafity of .
research. According to the JNU Ordinance, the CASR has to ratify the recommendation of Centre for applicant's admission to .
Direct Ph.D. In the case of Masood Alam this due process of placing the recommendation of the Centre In the CASR was .
not followed and the Dean of SLL&CS unilaterally rejected the recommendation of the Arable Centre, hence violating the .
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provisions of the JNU Ordinance. While the SFI was the only organization to point out this fact. AISA never mentioned it .
anywhere. It is shameful that its representative in the JNUSU refused to make it the central demand to resolve the issue. However, .
the fact that the JNUSU President ultimately signed an understanding with the administration on this point to withdraw the hunger .
strike has frustrated AISA. We challenge the AISA to prove how our position was against undoing the injustice done in the case of .
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Masood. It must also clarify before the student community why JNUSU president finally agreed with SFI's position. .
While SFI maintains that the CASR is the only academic forum that can judge the merit of any such case, neither the .
individuals in the administration nor anybody else in the university can pass judgment on the eligibility of the applicant for .
admission to any discipline In our university. .
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While in the case of Masood the centre has recommended his name, in the case of Rajiv, a CPS studen~ centre has .
rejected his synopsis resulting in denial of registration. Both the cases vindicated SFI's position that while Centre's academic .
autonomy has to be maintained all the centres are accountable to its higher academic fora. On the other hand, AISA's position is .
completely unprincipled and contradictory on such matters. On the other hand, the manner in which the entire agitation was run .
without JNUSU's banner proved AI SA's disregards for the legitimacy of JNUSU. It is only when SFI and AI SF demanded JNUSU's .
position on the matter, JNUSU took a formal position. However, JNUSU extending a support to an agitaiion against administration .
but not takihg it up from JNUSU platform was an unprecedented development This only exposes the sectarian politics of AtSA .
and its undermining the role of the JNUSU. We appeal to the student community to expose AISA's pofttics of sensationalism and .
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stand in defence of due democratic and academic processes. .
The baseless attack of the AI SA against the SFI in the case of Masood Alam is only a chimera to hide the total bankrupt .
politics that the AISA has engaged in this campus over the last one year. The following is an account of the AISA's dubious .
political positions on major issues in the campus: .
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After the last JNUSU elections, one of the candidates of AI SA from SIS, who is a Dalit accused a senior activist of AI SA named Arvind of casteist abuse and flied a complaint in the Equal Opportunity Office. However, the AISA did not iniiiate any action against its cadre. On the other hand the AISA led JNUSU in the most shameless manner did not take any initiative to provide justice to the Datit student So much for AISA's politics for the deprived sections. .
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This year ma most unprecedented manner Saraswati Puja was performed in the academic complex of our University in total violation of the existent norms for performing such religious functions. Jt was the SFI which the very next day condemned the incident and demanded action against the violators of the rules of the Unrversity. However, the AISA in the.most shameless manner did not even condemn the incident which is contradictory to the University's secular nonns. .
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On the anniversary of the Gujarat carnage, the AI SA decided to call for a protest march in the name of AISA and not JNUSU. Shamefully however, the march never came out since the AISA could not mobHize a single student against communalism. Such failure to mobifize students only strengthens the hands of the communal forces in the campus. AI SA's inability to mobilize a .single student exposes the fact that AISA has no credibility in the student community in the fight against communalism. .
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Last year after the violence on 17th August when ABVP attacked a public meeting of SAR Geelanil Ha~eet Singh .
Committee was constituted to enquire into the incident But subsequently the Administration completely buried the .
committee without even completing the enquiry. However, the AI SA led JNUSU did not take any injtiative to reconstitute .
the committee and punish those guilty of violence. .
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The Administration in the Campus Development Committee (CDC) meeting proposed to hike the prices of eatables in the .
canteens and dhabas of the campus. The JNUSU President from AI SA was the only JNUSU representative present in the .
meeting and consented on such an anti-student move of the Administration. It is shameful that the self procJajmed .
revolutionaries in the campus had no qualms in agreeing to such an anti-student move and did not even inform the .
student community about it for nearly a month. It was after the active intervention of the CDC Convenor of JNUSU from .
SFI that the agenda of price hike was again brought in the CDC following which the prices of certain items were reduced. .
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This year du~ng the Admission process the Administration in the most undemocratic manner: decided to derecognize .
students coming from the Madrasa background. While the SFI and our office bearers in the JNUSU condemned such an .
anti-student move and pressurized the Administration to withdraw the decision, the AISA did not even bother to condemn .
the decision in a pamphlet It was only after the issue was solved that the AISA woke from its revolutionary sleep and paid .
lip service to the issue. .
It is shameful that 1he organization which is leading the JNUSU has no vision regarding such important issues pertaining .
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to the campus and the student community. Instead of having a concrete position on all the issues, the AISA1s politics of attacking the SFI on baseless grounds only exposes its opportunist and sectarian politics and non-seriousness for the students~ issues in the campus. We would like to appeal to the students to expose the sectarian politics of AI SA and rally behind the SFI. f Sdl· Subhanll Chowdhury, President, SFI-JNU Sd/· Parimal Maya Sudhakar, Secretary, SFI·JNU .
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PaRCha - JNU - AISF-SFI - 2005 ID-38591
.
STUDENTS' FEDERATION OF INDIA .
UPHOLD THE ACADEMIC AND DEMOCRATIC FORA OF OUR UNIVERSITY!! .
EXPOSE THE SECTARIAN BANKRUPT POLITICS OF AISA!! .
Friends, Date: 28-08-05 .
.
The high academic standard of our University is a resutt of the painstaking efforts of the student community and the .
teachers to reach higher level of academic exce"-'"ce. The academic community of our University has always adhered to the .
academic and democratic fora like the Committee ror Advanced Studies and Research (CASR), the Board of Studies in different .
Schools and Academic Council to ensure academic competence. In the case of research, hence for the admission to all post-.
graduate disciplines too, it is the CASR, which is the competent and legitimate academic body to judge the eligibiflty and quafity of .
research. According to the JNU Ordinance, the CASR has to ratify the recommendation of Centre for applicant's admission to .
Direct Ph.D. In the case of Masood Alam this due process of placing the recommendation of the Centre In the CASR was .
not followed and the Dean of SLL&CS unilaterally rejected the recommendation of the Arable Centre, hence violating the .
.
provisions of the JNU Ordinance. While the SFI was the only organization to point out this fact. AISA never mentioned it .
anywhere. It is shameful that its representative in the JNUSU refused to make it the central demand to resolve the issue. However, .
the fact that the JNUSU President ultimately signed an understanding with the administration on this point to withdraw the hunger .
strike has frustrated AISA. We challenge the AISA to prove how our position was against undoing the injustice done in the case of .
.
Masood. It must also clarify before the student community why JNUSU president finally agreed with SFI's position. .
While SFI maintains that the CASR is the only academic forum that can judge the merit of any such case, neither the .
individuals in the administration nor anybody else in the university can pass judgment on the eligibility of the applicant for .
admission to any discipline In our university. .
.
While in the case of Masood the centre has recommended his name, in the case of Rajiv, a CPS studen~ centre has .
rejected his synopsis resulting in denial of registration. Both the cases vindicated SFI's position that while Centre's academic .
autonomy has to be maintained all the centres are accountable to its higher academic fora. On the other hand, AISA's position is .
completely unprincipled and contradictory on such matters. On the other hand, the manner in which the entire agitation was run .
without JNUSU's banner proved AI SA's disregards for the legitimacy of JNUSU. It is only when SFI and AI SF demanded JNUSU's .
position on the matter, JNUSU took a formal position. However, JNUSU extending a support to an agitaiion against administration .
but not takihg it up from JNUSU platform was an unprecedented development This only exposes the sectarian politics of AtSA .
and its undermining the role of the JNUSU. We appeal to the student community to expose AISA's pofttics of sensationalism and .
.
stand in defence of due democratic and academic processes. .
The baseless attack of the AI SA against the SFI in the case of Masood Alam is only a chimera to hide the total bankrupt .
politics that the AISA has engaged in this campus over the last one year. The following is an account of the AISA's dubious .
political positions on major issues in the campus: .
.
.
After the last JNUSU elections, one of the candidates of AI SA from SIS, who is a Dalit accused a senior activist of AI SA named Arvind of casteist abuse and flied a complaint in the Equal Opportunity Office. However, the AISA did not iniiiate any action against its cadre. On the other hand the AISA led JNUSU in the most shameless manner did not take any initiative to provide justice to the Datit student So much for AISA's politics for the deprived sections. .
.
.
This year ma most unprecedented manner Saraswati Puja was performed in the academic complex of our University in total violation of the existent norms for performing such religious functions. Jt was the SFI which the very next day condemned the incident and demanded action against the violators of the rules of the Unrversity. However, the AISA in the.most shameless manner did not even condemn the incident which is contradictory to the University's secular nonns. .
.
.
On the anniversary of the Gujarat carnage, the AI SA decided to call for a protest march in the name of AISA and not JNUSU. Shamefully however, the march never came out since the AISA could not mobHize a single student against communalism. Such failure to mobifize students only strengthens the hands of the communal forces in the campus. AI SA's inability to mobilize a .single student exposes the fact that AISA has no credibility in the student community in the fight against communalism. .
.
.
Last year after the violence on 17th August when ABVP attacked a public meeting of SAR Geelanil Ha~eet Singh .
Committee was constituted to enquire into the incident But subsequently the Administration completely buried the .
committee without even completing the enquiry. However, the AI SA led JNUSU did not take any injtiative to reconstitute .
the committee and punish those guilty of violence. .
.
.
.
The Administration in the Campus Development Committee (CDC) meeting proposed to hike the prices of eatables in the .
canteens and dhabas of the campus. The JNUSU President from AI SA was the only JNUSU representative present in the .
meeting and consented on such an anti-student move of the Administration. It is shameful that the self procJajmed .
revolutionaries in the campus had no qualms in agreeing to such an anti-student move and did not even inform the .
student community about it for nearly a month. It was after the active intervention of the CDC Convenor of JNUSU from .
SFI that the agenda of price hike was again brought in the CDC following which the prices of certain items were reduced. .
.
.
.
This year du~ng the Admission process the Administration in the most undemocratic manner: decided to derecognize .
students coming from the Madrasa background. While the SFI and our office bearers in the JNUSU condemned such an .
anti-student move and pressurized the Administration to withdraw the decision, the AISA did not even bother to condemn .
the decision in a pamphlet It was only after the issue was solved that the AISA woke from its revolutionary sleep and paid .
lip service to the issue. .
It is shameful that 1he organization which is leading the JNUSU has no vision regarding such important issues pertaining .
.
.
.
to the campus and the student community. Instead of having a concrete position on all the issues, the AISA1s politics of attacking the SFI on baseless grounds only exposes its opportunist and sectarian politics and non-seriousness for the students~ issues in the campus. We would like to appeal to the students to expose the sectarian politics of AI SA and rally behind the SFI. f Sdl· Subhanll Chowdhury, President, SFI-JNU Sd/· Parimal Maya Sudhakar, Secretary, SFI·JNU .
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