PaRCha - JNU - DSF SFI-JNU - 2012 ID-57146

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the AISA-Ied JNUSU cmpromised with the JNU administration ,,ustafa wrote in the Statesman: ·The strongest youth unrt party protested and demanded a level of decision-making and finally agreed on a maximum of 10 deprivation points, which .

was a betrayal of the aspirations of the students from the socially Jlonomy and instead of accepting the well-reasoned arguments deprived sections. The AISA-Ied JNUSU led a successful agitation mey were thrown out and the entire unit in Jawaharlal Nehru against efforts to introduce privatisation in JNU in 1995. Umverstty dissotved. The young people who tried for a change from ·:· AISA conceded space to the communal forces in JNU and .

Within fouoo themsetves unable to cut through the impenetrable .

walls that the party has built around itself, where the benefits and in 1996 JNUSU elections AISA came 3rd on all central panel posts. ABVP won 3 posts in the central panel and a majority in the ad-1antar~ cf c!sdp'·re and consensus are being fast turned into a Council but the SFI won the Presidenfs post by a slender margin dtsad·tantage rFf ~ose who nave decided they will not listen: of 4 votes. 1-.IS~ '"' r.s parr-phlet dated 27 08.2012 has raised questions vis-a-·:· SFI held the President's post and led the JNUSU vis SFI--.~',0 s ...e:ationship wrth the CPI (M). SFI-JNU reiterates what continuously from 1996 to 1999. AISA did not have any JNUSU 11 t:a<l sta:eo .1 ~s pamphlet dated 9.07.2012: ·sFI-JNU believes that office-bearer during this period. The JNU entrance coaching .

CP '/, s pos::.ons on the events surrounding Singur-Nandigram, classes for the students from the deprived section were started !t'e rr-.:'c1' cf PJI.P ~eader TP Chandrashekharan or the recent during this phase. Massive student agitations were launched on ,.,~rt el.trded to Prar:ab Mukhe~ee in the presidential elections the issues of new hostels, against sexual harassment and.

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_h;r been correct nor have they helped in strengthening the discrimination against students from socially deprived sections. In.

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left ar-d democratic movement While criticising these positions, October 1999, 63 students were arrested and 14 student leaders .

ll'1f SFI-JfJU duty acknowledges the track record of the CPI including JNUSU office-bearers were sent to jail. The major ('A1 ll1 p!a";tng a leading role in the fight in defence of India's achievements of the student movement of this period were the ~'T''O<'..loC'f, seculansm, social justice and economic self-reliance construction of 8 new hostels (from Tapti onwards), the formation .

ard li·e rad'Cal ~1;tiatives of the Left Front governments in West of the GSCASH (which was the first such institution in any Asian Yera!a and Tripura in the field of land reforms, panchayati 1 university at that time) and the institution of the Equal Opportunity.

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raJ. mass education etc. SFI-JNU will also not hesitate to express Office to prevent caste-based discrimination. An initiative to solida®f v·nth all the present day pro-people initiatives of the CPI introduce 27% reservation for the OBC students in JNU .

(lA), like the peasant struggles of Rajasthan, the untouchability-admissions was undertaken during this period through the .

eradiCdtion movement in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, against , ~regressive Admission Policy but could not succeed due to Yhap Panchayat in Haryana or the national movement for food ~esistance from casteist forces, who resorted to violence. .

cecurrty etc. SFI-JNU will also stand in solidarity with all other ~}· ABVP won the JNUSU President's post defeating the SFI movements, from the anti-POSCO movement led candidate by one vote in 1999. SFI led the secular resistance.

genuine peoples' by the CPI; to the struggles of tribaJ organisations against forcible against the communal and reactionary politics of the RSS-ABVP in JNU. Not only did the AISA have no role to play in the struggle.

displacement and corporate takeover of forests for mining; the anti-.

AFSPA movements in Manipur and Kashmir; and also the struggles against the communal forces, i1 came up with a grotesque theory waged by the CPI (ML) Liberation against the landlord armies like of "fascism out of power is more dangerous than fascism in Panvir Sena in Bihar. In sum, SFI-JNU will on the one hand power", which was rejected by the JNU students. resolutely avoid the trap of sectarianism and embrace all that is : SFI won back the President's post in 2001 and held it till .

progressive and pro-people within the Indian Left. On the other 2003. During this period a major struggle was won by the JNUSU hand, SFI-JNU will not flinch from adopting firm positions against against the JNU administration forcing it to abandon the infamous Xlh Plan, which was pushed by the BJP led government to.

opportunistic and anti-people trends within any section of the Left. .

SFI-JNU believes that the way ahead lies in such a non-sectarian saffronise the curriculum in JNU. Major achievements of the .

and open-minded praxis.· student movement were modernisation of library facilities, massive with this approach of non-sectarian praxis a purchase of new books, and providing computer and internet.

In keeping the programme facilities for students across schools. Massive mobilisationsrepresentative from SFI-JNU participated in .

against communalism and imperialist wars were undertaken by the.

organised to demand (!Justice for Bathani Tola" in July 2012 at SFI-Ied JNUSU during this period, against the anti-Muslimthelnvltation of the AISA and the SFI-JNU also condemned tho .

pogroms in Gujarat in 2002 and the wars against Iraq and.

pollee lathlcharge against the AISA activists during their recent .

parl1ament march. However, when the SFI-JNU mobilised JNU Afghanistan. .

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' dharna for food security and : Once the ABVP was completely routed in JNU by the SFI,.

students for the Left Parties's post in.

universal PDS in August 2012, AISA maintained its sectarian AISA made a comeback and won the JNUSU Presidentdistance. 2004 elections, where all other central panel posts and majority in the council were won by the SFI-AISF alliance. In January 2005 a .

JNU STUDENT MOVEMENT: SEITING THE RECORD STRAIGHT UGBM was held on the issue of a Nestle outlet which was opened The JNU student movement has a glorious legacy of four decades, during the earlier SFI-Ied union's tenure. AISA's position of closing which the SFI-JNU inherits. Numerous struggles have been waged down the Nestle outlet was upheld in the UGBM, while SFI's under SFI led JNUSUs; from the struggle against the draconian position of retaining the outlet with certain conditions was Emergency Imposed by the Indira Gandhi regime in the 1970s to defeated. The SFI accepted the UGBM mandate and later self-challenging the reactionary anti-Mandai wave and fighting against critically noted in its February 2005 Delhi State Conference .

Report: "We could not gauge the mood of the student community.

the communal offensive of the RSS-BJP in the 1990s. AISA has always hesitated to acknowledge this legacy of the SFI in JNU and on this issue and ignored dissent within our own ranks, leading to of late has started distorting the history of the JNU student misplaced political positions which caught us wrong footed on the movement since the 1990s for narrow sectarian purposes. In order .

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to set the record straight SFI-JNU wants to clarify the following facts: : AISA won the JNUSU President's post again in October 2005. The JNUSU President from the AISA first agreed to a visit.

o.., \ ! AISA won the post of the JNUSU President for the first by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to JNU in November 2005 and.

f\~ ~ ·\ time in 1993 and held it till 1995. An agitation to restore the 20 then, when faced with opposition from the AISA, vanished from c)~ deprivation points system in admissions was started in 1994, but l~ (;.

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