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Myanmar and neighbouring Pakistan..incre~sing att.ac~s on religio~s mino~itie~:. whether it is the Rohingya· Muslim~'/# J:~ .s-.
Burma or Hindus in Pakistan, we are w1tnessmg contmumg prosecution of mmont1es. ~$.
,.
National Situation ·~./ .
In our own country, we are live in times marked by an increase in aggressive communalism, corporate loot and corruption, .
suppression of students' rights on campuses and denial of basic facilities, assaults on democratic rights and civil liberties, the suppression of workers' struggles and people's movements and also a physical and ideological offensive on women's freedom. Riding on the wave of mass anger against price rise, corruption and corporate loot of Congress rule, communal fascist forces led by BJP-RSS have come to power with a huge majority promising 'ocche din'. However, in just a few .
months of the NDA rule, the reality of this much-touted acche din has already come to the fore. Railway fares have been enormously hiked (a move which was incidentally opposed by Modi when he was aspiring to become the Prime Mmister) .
thus leading to an overall hike in consumer prices, prices of basic commodities are still skyrocketing, and moreover the .
NDA has carried forward and even accelerated several of UPA's disastrous economic policies such as large-scale FDI in .
various sectors Including insurance and defence. Besides, the communal fascist forces have already launched their vitriolic .
campaign of hate and division across the country. The stage was set when one accused for instigating riots in UP, was .
.
'rewarded' with a Ministerial post in the Union cabinet and soon after, a young Muslim software engineer was murdered .
in Pune, a Muslim caterer was forced to break his fast during rozo by elected MPs belonging to the Shiv Sena, RSS .
ideologues are being given a free reign to claim that all Indians are 'Hindus', and now the entire state of UP is being .
carefully brought under the sway of a communal frenzy, even well-known public figures such as Sania Mirza are being .
forced to 'prove' their 'nationality'. BJP-RSS' pet project of saffronlsinl education started with a big bang with the .
system worked well In ancient times, and one Dinanath Batra's outlandish books being made compulsory supplementaryappointment of YSudarshan Rao, as the head of the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) who holds that the caste .
readings in 42,000 govt schools of Guajarat. .
From the UPA to the NDA, so-called 'elected representatives' in ruling class regimes take dictation from corporate houses .
and their masters in the World Bank and the IMF. Democratically elected governments openly defend corporate .
.
profiteering and resort to brutal state repression In POSCO, Manesar, Nagri, Nandlgram, Koodankulam, Jagatsinghpur and .
elsewhere. And all protest -whether it is against mindless nuclearlsatlon or against GM crops, against forcible land .
acquisition or against large dams -Is being termed as 'antl-natlonar not just by the UPA, but by the NDA too. If the .
Congress regime was embroiled in several cases of corruption and corporate loot, from the coal scam, CWG, 2G, KG Basin .
to Adarsh, the solar scam in Kerala etc, various NDA governments too have been implicated in massive scams such as the .
massive nregal mining in BeHary and the Vyapam scam in Madhya Pradesh. If the Congress refused to take steps to .
.
improve the imtitutional response to rape and sexual violence, the NDA continues to appoint rape accused as Mln1sters In .
senior positions of power. The NDA has moreover :.hown all inElieations in itli first budget of c.arrvi11~ forward and .
intensifying the UPA's legacy of "fund-cuts" for social welfare schemes such as NREGA and public health care, and for education. ~o~ever, across the country, peoples' movements are also challenging land acquisition and state-sponsored cprporate militantly resisting state repression to defend their IIYes and livelihoods In the mineral-rich areas of land grab -Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Odisha, in Koodankulam, Jaltapur and Fatehabad, and fr~m Uttarakhand in the north to Kethlkudam and Arippa in Kerala. And as peasants, tribals and poor protest against corporate takeover· of their land' .
workers are also demanding their rights and protesting against corporate greed. . .
Whet.her it is.t.he SEZ Act (pas~ec;l with the h~lp .of CPI-CPI(M).in 2005), or the land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and .
.
Resettlement B1l~ (~RR), leglslatons are being passed In .order to facilitate, Jegalise and protect the regime of corporate .
land-grab campa1gn mth~ country. The present government Is also all set to further ease the path for forcible land grab, .
.
opening up of SEZs, and refo~mi~g' labor laws to the detriment of working class and furthering corporate exploitation .
and l~t. Neo-liberal ec~nomlc policies Implemented by both the UPA as well as the NDA (FDI, privatization, exclusionary -.
:a~~et~~ ~a:e~ .on ~u~lous poverty ~stlmates, steady dismantling of PDS and a shift to 'cash transfers' for instance) are m t e orm of reducmg employment, rampant contractualisation, drastic fall In wage share and steady .
~ mig fae1r 0 .
nse n rmer suicides. .
!he ~PA. had. brought In a slew of policies to further restrict access to affordable and quality education· the FYUP in t Delhi Umverslty, the Foreign University Bill and the Educational Ttibunal bill for instance. As a result of ma~sive studen .
unrest and a sustained campaign by students and teachers In DU th f .
;est.of the policy ~ssaults on the very idea of an inclusive and affor:arr:e;~;a~~~e:r:ov~~~~~~~e/t~~P~~~Iw;~:rN~~ .
or mstance has tdl now refused to get rid of the elitist CSAT tt · · democratic demand of ending the exclusion of classical and 'f~;el;~~~:;;,:.~~cj;d1;g ~~t~~ra'~~tp~;;j:~~8F;;n~~: .
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PaRCha - JNU - All Organisations - 2013 ID-55825
.
(b ·~ ~ .
" .
g.§~ .
I 0~.'§' ~ ~~ ·~ ~.
"'q .§ ~ .
Myanmar and neighbouring Pakistan..incre~sing att.ac~s on religio~s mino~itie~:. whether it is the Rohingya· Muslim~'/# J:~ .s-.
Burma or Hindus in Pakistan, we are w1tnessmg contmumg prosecution of mmont1es. ~$.
,.
National Situation ·~./ .
In our own country, we are live in times marked by an increase in aggressive communalism, corporate loot and corruption, .
suppression of students' rights on campuses and denial of basic facilities, assaults on democratic rights and civil liberties, the suppression of workers' struggles and people's movements and also a physical and ideological offensive on women's freedom. Riding on the wave of mass anger against price rise, corruption and corporate loot of Congress rule, communal fascist forces led by BJP-RSS have come to power with a huge majority promising 'ocche din'. However, in just a few .
months of the NDA rule, the reality of this much-touted acche din has already come to the fore. Railway fares have been enormously hiked (a move which was incidentally opposed by Modi when he was aspiring to become the Prime Mmister) .
thus leading to an overall hike in consumer prices, prices of basic commodities are still skyrocketing, and moreover the .
NDA has carried forward and even accelerated several of UPA's disastrous economic policies such as large-scale FDI in .
various sectors Including insurance and defence. Besides, the communal fascist forces have already launched their vitriolic .
campaign of hate and division across the country. The stage was set when one accused for instigating riots in UP, was .
.
'rewarded' with a Ministerial post in the Union cabinet and soon after, a young Muslim software engineer was murdered .
in Pune, a Muslim caterer was forced to break his fast during rozo by elected MPs belonging to the Shiv Sena, RSS .
ideologues are being given a free reign to claim that all Indians are 'Hindus', and now the entire state of UP is being .
carefully brought under the sway of a communal frenzy, even well-known public figures such as Sania Mirza are being .
forced to 'prove' their 'nationality'. BJP-RSS' pet project of saffronlsinl education started with a big bang with the .
system worked well In ancient times, and one Dinanath Batra's outlandish books being made compulsory supplementaryappointment of YSudarshan Rao, as the head of the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) who holds that the caste .
readings in 42,000 govt schools of Guajarat. .
From the UPA to the NDA, so-called 'elected representatives' in ruling class regimes take dictation from corporate houses .
and their masters in the World Bank and the IMF. Democratically elected governments openly defend corporate .
.
profiteering and resort to brutal state repression In POSCO, Manesar, Nagri, Nandlgram, Koodankulam, Jagatsinghpur and .
elsewhere. And all protest -whether it is against mindless nuclearlsatlon or against GM crops, against forcible land .
acquisition or against large dams -Is being termed as 'antl-natlonar not just by the UPA, but by the NDA too. If the .
Congress regime was embroiled in several cases of corruption and corporate loot, from the coal scam, CWG, 2G, KG Basin .
to Adarsh, the solar scam in Kerala etc, various NDA governments too have been implicated in massive scams such as the .
massive nregal mining in BeHary and the Vyapam scam in Madhya Pradesh. If the Congress refused to take steps to .
.
improve the imtitutional response to rape and sexual violence, the NDA continues to appoint rape accused as Mln1sters In .
senior positions of power. The NDA has moreover :.hown all inElieations in itli first budget of c.arrvi11~ forward and .
intensifying the UPA's legacy of "fund-cuts" for social welfare schemes such as NREGA and public health care, and for education. ~o~ever, across the country, peoples' movements are also challenging land acquisition and state-sponsored cprporate militantly resisting state repression to defend their IIYes and livelihoods In the mineral-rich areas of land grab -Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Odisha, in Koodankulam, Jaltapur and Fatehabad, and fr~m Uttarakhand in the north to Kethlkudam and Arippa in Kerala. And as peasants, tribals and poor protest against corporate takeover· of their land' .
workers are also demanding their rights and protesting against corporate greed. . .
Whet.her it is.t.he SEZ Act (pas~ec;l with the h~lp .of CPI-CPI(M).in 2005), or the land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and .
.
Resettlement B1l~ (~RR), leglslatons are being passed In .order to facilitate, Jegalise and protect the regime of corporate .
land-grab campa1gn mth~ country. The present government Is also all set to further ease the path for forcible land grab, .
.
opening up of SEZs, and refo~mi~g' labor laws to the detriment of working class and furthering corporate exploitation .
and l~t. Neo-liberal ec~nomlc policies Implemented by both the UPA as well as the NDA (FDI, privatization, exclusionary -.
:a~~et~~ ~a:e~ .on ~u~lous poverty ~stlmates, steady dismantling of PDS and a shift to 'cash transfers' for instance) are m t e orm of reducmg employment, rampant contractualisation, drastic fall In wage share and steady .
~ mig fae1r 0 .
nse n rmer suicides. .
!he ~PA. had. brought In a slew of policies to further restrict access to affordable and quality education· the FYUP in t Delhi Umverslty, the Foreign University Bill and the Educational Ttibunal bill for instance. As a result of ma~sive studen .
unrest and a sustained campaign by students and teachers In DU th f .
;est.of the policy ~ssaults on the very idea of an inclusive and affor:arr:e;~;a~~~e:r:ov~~~~~~~e/t~~P~~~Iw;~:rN~~ .
or mstance has tdl now refused to get rid of the elitist CSAT tt · · democratic demand of ending the exclusion of classical and 'f~;el;~~~:;;,:.~~cj;d1;g ~~t~~ra'~~tp~;;j:~~8F;;n~~: .
2 .
.