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Off' Criterion through which the JNU administration was.

scuttling the proper implementation ofOBC reservations (2008-The SFI..JNU expressed nodissentwhen the blood ofpeasants~ .

2011 ). Similarly, any attempt at corporate takeover ofcampus was spiltat Singurand Nandigram in 2006-07. SFI-JNU itself.

spaces has been firmly defeated by students' struggles in which admits that it only changed its stance after successive electoral.

AISA andAI SA's JNUSU representatives have played the leading defeats at the hands ofAISA in 2007 and 2012, because "-in a.

role: whetherit be the robust resistance to the administration's left leaning political campus like JNU, these developmentsplans to introduce privatization in JNU (1995). the rejection of (Singur. Nandigram, CPI(M) positions on AFSPA etc) haveeroded the SFI's supportbase among the progressive and.

the Nestle and Cafe Coffee Day outlets (2005 and 2009), or thestruggle which forced the administration to take back its democratic minded students...(making SFI) " vulnerable toschemes to extract user charges for electricity or to rent out attacks of double-speak" by AISA(Ieaflet dt. 7 July 2012). ThePSR for commercial purposes. SFI-JNU's Joint Secretary candidate has publicly said that herorganization decided to distance from CPI(M)'s stance mainlyThese struggles have been part of AISA's political vision that because that stance "affects ourchances of electoral victoryhas never seen JNU orthe JNUSU as an island removed from in JNU."the social and political realities of the surrounding world. In .

The fact that SFI-JNU's criticism of CPI(M) is hollow, is furtherkeeping with this. AISA has always expressed active solidarity.

with people's movements and struggles across the country proved by the fact that they continue to uphold the programme.

and the world. A JNUSU led by A/SA will boldly continue to and constitution of the SFI-which is the official student wing of.

offeractivesupportand solidaritywith struggling people in .

the CPI(M) (leaflet dt 11 July 2012)' Thus. self-admittedly, they.

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have ~o wish to resist CPI(M)'s overall opportunist politics -they merely wish to be the 'JNU edition' of CPI(M)'s SFI-a.

Towards A Pricipled Pro-Student, Pro-People Politics.

The right-wing student organizations like ABVP, NSUI, YFE are "federal fre~dom"and mere change ofcostume suitably tailored.

to fit JNU's Left-democratic sensibilities! We appeal to theopen agents of the social and political forces that are student community to reject this NEGATIVE politics of.

unleashing assaults on the people with communal and casteist .

SLANDER and OPPORTUNISM devoid of any issues orfrenzy and a whole-range of nee-liberal policies. They must be imaginationsresolutely defeated. But wealso need to assess the democratic.

commitment of the so-called uleft" groups too. The SFI and its We live in a time of serious challenges to the democratic.

movements of the country, of which the JNUSU is a part..

parent party CP!M have defended and imposed SEZs, corporate.

land grab, police firing on peasants ( Singur-Nandigram-Corruption, corporate land grab and forcible displacement is.

Lalgarh), Operation Green Hunt,AFSPA and UAPA; they have going handandin handwith corporate takeoverofthe educationsectorandthe scuttling ofall voices ofdissent. In such a context,.

remained silent on the witch-hunt of minorities and fake.

encounters; governments headed by CPIM have pursued it is allthe more important forthe student movement to expand.

privatization ofeducation and health and robbed workers' rights, the space of struggle and challenge the neo-fiberal agenda..

We need a JNUSU that will fight against the corporate and.

peddling the idea that 'TINA' (there is no alternative) to these communal common-sense ofour times, and take forward the.

policies. If these were SFI's policies on a national stage, it is.

inevitable that its policies in J NU too were no different. struggles for social inclusion, democratisation of decision-making bodies, financial assistance and campus democracy.

Even as the AISA-Ied JNUSU has been striving to advance .

both within the campus andin every possible forum beyond.students' and people's struggles on a variety of fronts, it has By resisting attacks, by imagining new futures, andfaced blind opposition and hurdles from not only reactionary institutionalizing progressive policy changes, A/SA hasrigh~wing outfits NSUI, ABVP and YFE and theAdministration, evolved and articulated a radical and creative vision of.

but also from all the avataars of the SFI in JNU..

The SH-JNU has been accusing the AJSA-Ied JNUSU of being politics in JNU. It has playeda vanguardrole in addressing the.

burning questions ofourtime. We needto defend this modelof.

a 'zero-achievement Union.' But for SFlin allits avatars, it is JNUSU which is committed to builda strong, robustresistance.

nothing new to blindly and baselessly attack AI SA-led JNUSU. .

to assaults on student rights and campus democracy and.

Note that in 2008 as well, the SFI had similarly accused the struggle fora secular, democratic, socially-inclusive andgender-.

previousAISA-led JNUSU of2007-08 too of 'zero achievement'! sensitive JNU and society at large. Re-elect A/SA ! Ensure.

(see its leaflets during October 2008).Why does SFI/SFI-JNU JNUSU remains true to its fighting vision andmission !I.

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. parrot its anti-AISA phrases year after year?.

The fact is thatthe SFI avatars have nothing to show in terms.

ofinitiatives and struggles. Rather, they have much to hide-Central Panel.

especially their role in promoting the corporate Nestle outlet in President : Omprasad.

2004-05; dissociating from the workers' struggle of 2007 and .

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Vice-President ·Minakshi Buragohaindemanding Pro.ctorial Enquiry on protesting students fighting Gen. Secy : Shakeel Anjum .,.

for workers' minimum wages; opposing AISA-Ied JNUSU's Jt. Secy. : Piyush Raj.

struggle against the wrong 'cut-offcriterion in OBC reservation sss.

throughout 2008-2010; and deriding the efforts to expose Akbar Chawdhary SIS .

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discrimination in viva marks and reduce viva weightage. Hence, Anubhuti Agnes Sara Ashutosh Kumar ! !· '.

to divertattention from theirown shameful role and lack of Chintu Dibya Shikha.

anysubstantial and genuine agenda, they keep repeating the .

Madhubani Se,n Pavan Kumar.

same slander againstAISA, year afteryear. .

Vishwambhar Nath Prajapati Sukrita Lahiri.

Thistime, we see that the SFI appears in two avatars-one of SLL&CS Tiamongla 1mchen.

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them is the newly formed SFI-JNU. Fa-:ed with successive.

defeats at the hands ofAISA in 2007 and 2012, the SFI-JNU Geeta Kumari SAA.

Mohd. Azhar Agnitra Ghosh.

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faction criticised CPI(M) on the issue of support for Pranab.

Mukherjee. However, this posture is merely a change of Sandeep Saurav CSLG.

costume, motivated by electoral opportunism. Sarfaraz Hamid -.

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Anant Prakash Narayan.

Singh Vikram Arun Kumar.

Sd/-Shivani Nag, Ravi Prakash, AISA Central Campaign Co-ordinators .

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