PaRCha - JNU - DSF SFI-JNU - 2013 ID-57798
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Seema Mustafa wrote in the Statesman: "The strongest youth unit after the sine die in 1983 -was started in 1994. but the AJSA-Ied senior facutty members of JNU like Profs. CP Chandrashekhar, JNUSU compromised with the JNU administration and finally.
of the party protested and demanded a level of decision-makingin the Issues that AISA raises; they are simply meant for Jayati Ghosh, Mohan Rao, Ritoo Jerath and Vivek Ku~ar and autonomy and instead of accepting the well-reasoned arguments agreed on a maximum of 10 deprivation po1nts. whiCh was a.
scoring brownie points vis-a-vis others. For instance. when RMP .
fo0l1er JNUSU Presidents like Albeena ~hakil, Ro.hlt an~ they were thrown out and the entire unit ln Jawaharlal Nehru betrayal of the aspirations of the students from the socially.
leader TP Chandrashekharan was killed in Kerala 10 May 2012, Dhananjay wrote to the SFI national_ leadership to recon~1d~r their deprived sections. The AI SA-led JNUSU led a successful agitation.
Unlversijy dissolved...The young people who tried for a change from.
AISA launched a full scale attack against the SFI in JNU for decision to dissolve the SFI.JNU umi and reverse the diSCiplinary within found themselves unable to cut through the impenetrable against efforts to introduce privatisalion in JNU in 1995..
defending the murderers, desptte the SFI-JNU unrt categorically .
action. A former JNUSU President, Comrade Albeena Shakil has walls that the party has built around itse~. where the benefits and : AI SA conceded space to the communal forces m JNU and.
condemning the gruesome murder and demand1ng punishme~t of .
recently been expelled from the Delhi State Committee of the CPI in 1996 JNUSU elections AI SA came 3"" on all central panel posts..
the guilty "irrespective of pol~lcal affiliations". The JNUSU PreSident (M) for advocating a conciliatory approach towards the SFI-JNU and advantages of discipline and consensus are be1ng fast turned into a ABVP won 3 posts in the central panel and a majority in the.
from the A/SA also visited TP disadvantage by those who have decided they will not listen: .
and another CouncJior attending the JNUSU Convention on campus democracy. Another Council but the SFI won the President's post by a slender marginChandrashek.haran s home in Onch1yam. However. ever since the Delhi State Commijtee member of the CPI (M) (who was a former AI SA in its pamphlet dated 27.08.20'12 has raised questions vis-a-of 4 votes."dissolution" and the coming into being of SFI.JNU, AISA and secretary o( SFI JNUuntt) has resigned in protest. vis SFI-JNU's relationship wtth the CPI (M). SFI-JNU retterates what : SF! held the President's post and led the JNUSUthe JNUSU office-bearers have conveniently dropped the TP it had stated in its pamphlet dated 9.07.2012: "SFI-JNU believes that.
SFI.JNU has stated that It will ''attempt to inUiate political continuously from 1996 to 1999. AISA did not have any JNUSU.
Chandrashekharan murder issue from their agenda: f also does CPI (M)'s positions on the events surrounding Singur-Nandigram, .
offtee-bearer during this period. The JNU entrance coachingnot flfld any mention lfl the SIS or SSS Convenor's reports! Is th1s dialogue with all CEC members, State Committees and primary the murder of RMP leader TP Chandrashekharan or the recent classes for the students from the deprived section were startedbecause the AISA feels it is no longer go1ng to yield electoral units of the SFI...Feedback received from SFI units across the support extended to Pranab Mukherjee in the presidential elections during this phase. Massive student ag~ations were launched on.
dividends in JNU? Isn't it opportunistic to play cheap politics on the country will be collated and presented before the Conference of have neither been correct nor have they helped in streng1hening the the issues of new hostels, against sexual harassment and.
murder of a committed Left leader, who was also an ally of the CPI-the SFI.JNU Unit, which will be held before the end of the Left and democratic movement. While criticising these positions, discrimination against students from socially deprived sections. In.
ML Llberat«:>n? monsoon semester, i.e. by November 2012...After due however, SFI-JNU duly acknowledges the track record of the CPI .
October 1999, 63 students were arrested and 14 student leaders.
deliberations, the Conference of the SFI.JNU Unit will take a (M) in playing a leading role in the fight in defence of India's.
Immediately after the last JNUSU elections. the newly elected including JNUSU office-bearers were sent to jail. The major.
on the question of larger organizationalJNUSU President from the AJSA had remarked that the mandate "is final decision democracy, secularism, social justice and economic seff-reliance achievements of the student movement of this period were the.
affillation."SFI-JNU has already received solidarijy from SFI units .
in favour of people's movements struggling aga1nsl SEZs, AFSPA and the radical initiatives of the Left Front governments in West construction of 8 new hostels (from Tapti onwards). the formation and Operabon Green Hunt". Has the JNUSU President or across the country, who are opposing the dissolution of the JNU unit Bengal, Kerala and Tripura in the field of land reforms, panchayati of the GSCASH (whic-h was the first such instiMion in any Asianwithm the SFI organisation and trying to reverse the decision..
anybody else from the AJSA taken a single initiative over the raj, mass education etc. SFI-JNU will also not hesttate to express university at that time) and the institution of the Equal Opportunity .
past six months to raise the issues of repeal of the AFSPA, or SFI.JNU has received a valuable solidarity message from solidarity with all the present day pro-people initiatives of the CPI Office to prevent caste-based discrimination An in~iative to .
scrcpping the SEZ Act or stopping "Operation Green Hunt"? eminent Left intellectual Dr. Ashok Mttra saying: ff you have (M), like the peasant slruggles of Rajasthan, the untouchability-introduce 27% reservation for the OBC students in JNU .
The only SEZ AISA was interested 11"1 opposing was the one in searched your conscience and it has endorsed your judgement that eradication movement in Tamil Nadu and Andhr a Pradesh, against admissions was undertaken during this period through the .
Nandigram as tf no more SEZs are being built or opposed in other what you are embarking upon is in defence of your cherished Khap Panchayat in Haryana or the national movement for food Progressive Admission Policy but could not succeed due to .
states today. Opposrng Greenhunt has become unnecessary for the ideology and you are prepared to go all the way to face the security etc. SFI-JNU will also stand in solidarity with all other resistance from casteist forces, who resorted to violence..
AISA today, because the Left Front government in West Bengal no consequences of your decision, please do go ahead. It has genuine peoples' movements, from the anti-POSCO movement led ! N3VP won the JNUSU President's post defeating the SFI .
longer exists. Like Mamata Banerjee, who once opposed the killing happened so often in history that elders leading a movement have by the CPI; to the struggles of tribal organisations a~~st forcibl~ candidate by one vote in 1999. SF! led the secular resistance .
of Maoist leader Azad and later once in power ordered the killing of made mistakes wh1ch the juniors through their initiative have got displacement and corporate takeover of forests for mmmg: the anti-against the communal and reactionary politics of the RSS-ABVP m.
another Maoist leader Kishenji herself, AISA's posturing on reversed. Bu1 they had to go through intense sufferings.. .By all AFSPA movements in Manipur and Kashmir; and also the struggles JNU. Not only did the AJSA have no role to play in the struggle.
Greenhunt" too is highly opportumstic. Similarly, AFSPA was an means argue fiercely with those who were till yesterday your closest waged by the CPI (ML) Liberation against the landlord armies liKe against the communal forces, it came up wnh a grotesque _theo~issue for the AJSA till the March 2'012 JNUSU elections jost because comrades, but please take care to avoid rancour in the exchanges Ranvir Sena in Bihar. In sum. SF/.JNU will on the one hand of "fascism out of power is more dangerous than fasctsm m it wanted to attack "CPI (M)'s double-speak" on AFSPA and not you gel involved in and. let the initiative ofa formal breach come -if resolutely avoid the trap of sectarianism and embrace all that is power", which was rejected by the JNU students. . .because rt is serious about the state repression unleashed under the tt has to come -not from your d1rection. None should be allowed the progressive and pro-people within the Indian Left. ~n the ot~r : SFI won back the President's post in 2001 and held It t1llAFSPA regliTle etJler in Kashmir or the North-Easl In contrast, chance of claiming that they did not sever the fraternal/inks but you hand, SFI-JNU will not flinch from adopting frrm posmons aga1nsl 2003. During this period a major struggle was won by the JNUSUover 25 members of the SFI-JNU unit along with the AISF opted out of your-o"r'ln ...The battle to protect the purity of the opportunistic and anti-people trends within any section of the L~ft. against the JNU administrallon forcing it to abandon the infamous.
travelled to Srinagar by road in May 2012 to participate in a .
ideology can never be a lost cause; the final victory is bound to be SFI-JNU believes that the way ahead lies in such a non-sectanan X" Plan. which was pushed by the BJP led government to.
Convention on the Democratic Rights of Kashmiri Youth and ours: and open-minded praxis." saffronise the curriculum in JNU. Ma1or ach~evements of thejoined in adopting a resolution demanding Withdrawal of .
student movement were modernisation of library facilities, massi-1e.
AF.:SPA and other democratic rights of the Kasmlrl people. It is this advice from an eminent intellectual, whom even the In keeping with this approach of non-sectarian praxis purchase of new books, and providing computer and internetAISA hails as an authentic voice of dissent within the Left that representatives from SFI-JNU participated in the programme.
When such electoralism has been the halmark of AJSA's politics, facilities for students across schools. Massive mobilisations.
currently guides the SFI-JNU. If the AISA considers all this as organised to demand "Justice for Bathani Tola" in July 2012 at thedoes it befrt the AI SA to indulge in name-caning? "shadow boxing", it only exposes its political bankruptcy and against communalism and imperialist wars were undertaken by t~e.
invitation of the AJSA and the SFI.JNU also condemned the police SFI-Ied JNUSU during this period, against the antt-MushmSFI·JNU: PRINCIPLED POSfTIONS, TRANSPARENT AGENDA narrow-minded sectarianism. lathicharge against the AJSA activists during ~~~r recent .
pogroms in Gujarat in 2002 and the wars against Iraq and The AtSA is vainly trying to create confusion over the pomical TOWARDS A NON -SECTARIAN, PROGRESSIVE AND parliament march. However. when the SFI-JNU mob1hs~d JNU .
dharna for food secunty and Afghanistan..
DEMOCRATIC STUDENT MOVEMENT: In order to understand the students for the Left Parties'.
positions adopted by the SFI-JNU and rts future agenda, which have Once the ABVP was completely routed in JNU by the SFI. been transparently communicated to the student community. A issues in the debate surroundmg the SFI-JNU, AJSA needs to look universal PDS in August 2012. AISA maintal1ed its sectanan AiSA made a comeback and won the JNUSU President's post in General Body Meeting of the SFI-JNU Unit held on 13" July 2012 beyond the trivia and focus on the more serious and substantive distance. 2004 elections. where all other central panel posts and majority In had resolved that it would conttnue to abide by the SFI Programme views from the Left, which are also available in the cyberspace. JNU STUDENT MOVEMENT: SffifNG THE RECORD STRAIGHT the council were won by the SFI-AISF alliance. In January 2005 a and Constitution and express unstinted solidarity with all pro-people Aditya Nigam wrote the following in the kaftla.org: "The leadership The JNU student movement has a glorious legacy of four decades, UGBM was held on the issue of a Nestle outlet which was opened mitiatives. struggles and movements launched by the left and or SFI-JNU deserves to be congratulated for the forthnght manner 1n which the SFI-JNU inherits. Numerous struggles have been waged during the earlier SFI-Ied union's tenure AISA's position of closingdemoClatic forces aga1nst the anti-people neohberal regime. The which tt has taken a position on some of the most critical issues that .
under SFI led JNUSUs: from the struggle against the draconian down the Nestle outlet was upheld in the UGBM. whne SFI's .
SFI-JNU resolved to fight against ultra-left sectarianism of the AJSA~ concern the future of the Left tn India. It is futile at this juncture to position of retaining the outlet with certain conditions wasfirmty oppose the DSU which espouses Maoist violence and also ask lhe kind of questions that are usually asked of people who Emergency imposed by the Indira Gamlhi regime ~ th~ 1970~ to .
challenging the reactionary anti-Mandai wave and frghhng agamst defeated. The SFI accepted the UGBM mandate and later self·.
criticize and counter the nght-<Jpportunist and anti-people trends decide at some point to speak up: why did you not speak up earlier? critically noted 1n its February 2005 Delhi State Conference.
the communal offensive of the RSS-BJP in the 1990s. AJSA has.
withm any section of the lndJan left and their mamfestations in JNU. Why did you support the decision to do X? Why did you not quit Report: ~ecould not gauge the mood of the student com~nity.
always hesitated to acknowledge this legacy of the SF! in JNU and.
Sff.JNU also resolved to adopt a non-sectarian approach towards when Nandigram actually took place? There is no correct and proper of late has started distorting the history of the JNU student on this issue and ignored dissent withtn our own ranks, leadmg to .
sb.Jdent struggles relentlessly frghl for issues concerning JNU time to speak up. To speak up publicly. that is. There Is always a movement since the 1990s for narrow sectarian purposes. In order misplaced political positions which caught us wrong footed on U1e sb.Jdents, work for broad based unity among progressive and time-lag between this public expression of dissent and tts initial .
to set the record straight SFI-JNU wants to clarify the following facts: issue.".
democrallc student organizations and m~iate meanmgfuJ debates on articulations in the 'proper party forums· It always takes a long, long ! AJSA won the JNUSU President's post again 1n Octo~.rtime before people actually decide to set aside considerations of AISA won the post of the JNUSU President for the first.
socialism in the 21't century. ! 2005. The JNUSU President from the AISA first agreed to a VISit.
'discipline' -and that is a moment of reckoning for people who are time In 1993 and held it till '1995. M agitation to restore the 20.
It was on the basis of this agenda that 96 comrades who were by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to JNU in November 2005 and.
serious about their poliUcs: deprivation points system in admissions -which was scrapped.
former members and sympathisers of the SFI in JNU, including .
.. .
.
PaRCha - JNU - DSF SFI-JNU - 2013 ID-57798
.
, .
A3 .
Seema Mustafa wrote in the Statesman: "The strongest youth unit after the sine die in 1983 -was started in 1994. but the AJSA-Ied senior facutty members of JNU like Profs. CP Chandrashekhar, JNUSU compromised with the JNU administration and finally.
of the party protested and demanded a level of decision-makingin the Issues that AISA raises; they are simply meant for Jayati Ghosh, Mohan Rao, Ritoo Jerath and Vivek Ku~ar and autonomy and instead of accepting the well-reasoned arguments agreed on a maximum of 10 deprivation po1nts. whiCh was a.
scoring brownie points vis-a-vis others. For instance. when RMP .
fo0l1er JNUSU Presidents like Albeena ~hakil, Ro.hlt an~ they were thrown out and the entire unit ln Jawaharlal Nehru betrayal of the aspirations of the students from the socially.
leader TP Chandrashekharan was killed in Kerala 10 May 2012, Dhananjay wrote to the SFI national_ leadership to recon~1d~r their deprived sections. The AI SA-led JNUSU led a successful agitation.
Unlversijy dissolved...The young people who tried for a change from.
AISA launched a full scale attack against the SFI in JNU for decision to dissolve the SFI.JNU umi and reverse the diSCiplinary within found themselves unable to cut through the impenetrable against efforts to introduce privatisalion in JNU in 1995..
defending the murderers, desptte the SFI-JNU unrt categorically .
action. A former JNUSU President, Comrade Albeena Shakil has walls that the party has built around itse~. where the benefits and : AI SA conceded space to the communal forces m JNU and.
condemning the gruesome murder and demand1ng punishme~t of .
recently been expelled from the Delhi State Committee of the CPI in 1996 JNUSU elections AI SA came 3"" on all central panel posts..
the guilty "irrespective of pol~lcal affiliations". The JNUSU PreSident (M) for advocating a conciliatory approach towards the SFI-JNU and advantages of discipline and consensus are be1ng fast turned into a ABVP won 3 posts in the central panel and a majority in the.
from the A/SA also visited TP disadvantage by those who have decided they will not listen: .
and another CouncJior attending the JNUSU Convention on campus democracy. Another Council but the SFI won the President's post by a slender marginChandrashek.haran s home in Onch1yam. However. ever since the Delhi State Commijtee member of the CPI (M) (who was a former AI SA in its pamphlet dated 27.08.20'12 has raised questions vis-a-of 4 votes."dissolution" and the coming into being of SFI.JNU, AISA and secretary o( SFI JNUuntt) has resigned in protest. vis SFI-JNU's relationship wtth the CPI (M). SFI-JNU retterates what : SF! held the President's post and led the JNUSUthe JNUSU office-bearers have conveniently dropped the TP it had stated in its pamphlet dated 9.07.2012: "SFI-JNU believes that.
SFI.JNU has stated that It will ''attempt to inUiate political continuously from 1996 to 1999. AISA did not have any JNUSU.
Chandrashekharan murder issue from their agenda: f also does CPI (M)'s positions on the events surrounding Singur-Nandigram, .
offtee-bearer during this period. The JNU entrance coachingnot flfld any mention lfl the SIS or SSS Convenor's reports! Is th1s dialogue with all CEC members, State Committees and primary the murder of RMP leader TP Chandrashekharan or the recent classes for the students from the deprived section were startedbecause the AISA feels it is no longer go1ng to yield electoral units of the SFI...Feedback received from SFI units across the support extended to Pranab Mukherjee in the presidential elections during this phase. Massive student ag~ations were launched on.
dividends in JNU? Isn't it opportunistic to play cheap politics on the country will be collated and presented before the Conference of have neither been correct nor have they helped in streng1hening the the issues of new hostels, against sexual harassment and.
murder of a committed Left leader, who was also an ally of the CPI-the SFI.JNU Unit, which will be held before the end of the Left and democratic movement. While criticising these positions, discrimination against students from socially deprived sections. In.
ML Llberat«:>n? monsoon semester, i.e. by November 2012...After due however, SFI-JNU duly acknowledges the track record of the CPI .
October 1999, 63 students were arrested and 14 student leaders.
deliberations, the Conference of the SFI.JNU Unit will take a (M) in playing a leading role in the fight in defence of India's.
Immediately after the last JNUSU elections. the newly elected including JNUSU office-bearers were sent to jail. The major.
on the question of larger organizationalJNUSU President from the AJSA had remarked that the mandate "is final decision democracy, secularism, social justice and economic seff-reliance achievements of the student movement of this period were the.
affillation."SFI-JNU has already received solidarijy from SFI units .
in favour of people's movements struggling aga1nsl SEZs, AFSPA and the radical initiatives of the Left Front governments in West construction of 8 new hostels (from Tapti onwards). the formation and Operabon Green Hunt". Has the JNUSU President or across the country, who are opposing the dissolution of the JNU unit Bengal, Kerala and Tripura in the field of land reforms, panchayati of the GSCASH (whic-h was the first such instiMion in any Asianwithm the SFI organisation and trying to reverse the decision..
anybody else from the AJSA taken a single initiative over the raj, mass education etc. SFI-JNU will also not hesttate to express university at that time) and the institution of the Equal Opportunity .
past six months to raise the issues of repeal of the AFSPA, or SFI.JNU has received a valuable solidarity message from solidarity with all the present day pro-people initiatives of the CPI Office to prevent caste-based discrimination An in~iative to .
scrcpping the SEZ Act or stopping "Operation Green Hunt"? eminent Left intellectual Dr. Ashok Mttra saying: ff you have (M), like the peasant slruggles of Rajasthan, the untouchability-introduce 27% reservation for the OBC students in JNU .
The only SEZ AISA was interested 11"1 opposing was the one in searched your conscience and it has endorsed your judgement that eradication movement in Tamil Nadu and Andhr a Pradesh, against admissions was undertaken during this period through the .
Nandigram as tf no more SEZs are being built or opposed in other what you are embarking upon is in defence of your cherished Khap Panchayat in Haryana or the national movement for food Progressive Admission Policy but could not succeed due to .
states today. Opposrng Greenhunt has become unnecessary for the ideology and you are prepared to go all the way to face the security etc. SFI-JNU will also stand in solidarity with all other resistance from casteist forces, who resorted to violence..
AISA today, because the Left Front government in West Bengal no consequences of your decision, please do go ahead. It has genuine peoples' movements, from the anti-POSCO movement led ! N3VP won the JNUSU President's post defeating the SFI .
longer exists. Like Mamata Banerjee, who once opposed the killing happened so often in history that elders leading a movement have by the CPI; to the struggles of tribal organisations a~~st forcibl~ candidate by one vote in 1999. SF! led the secular resistance .
of Maoist leader Azad and later once in power ordered the killing of made mistakes wh1ch the juniors through their initiative have got displacement and corporate takeover of forests for mmmg: the anti-against the communal and reactionary politics of the RSS-ABVP m.
another Maoist leader Kishenji herself, AISA's posturing on reversed. Bu1 they had to go through intense sufferings.. .By all AFSPA movements in Manipur and Kashmir; and also the struggles JNU. Not only did the AJSA have no role to play in the struggle.
Greenhunt" too is highly opportumstic. Similarly, AFSPA was an means argue fiercely with those who were till yesterday your closest waged by the CPI (ML) Liberation against the landlord armies liKe against the communal forces, it came up wnh a grotesque _theo~issue for the AJSA till the March 2'012 JNUSU elections jost because comrades, but please take care to avoid rancour in the exchanges Ranvir Sena in Bihar. In sum. SF/.JNU will on the one hand of "fascism out of power is more dangerous than fasctsm m it wanted to attack "CPI (M)'s double-speak" on AFSPA and not you gel involved in and. let the initiative ofa formal breach come -if resolutely avoid the trap of sectarianism and embrace all that is power", which was rejected by the JNU students. . .because rt is serious about the state repression unleashed under the tt has to come -not from your d1rection. None should be allowed the progressive and pro-people within the Indian Left. ~n the ot~r : SFI won back the President's post in 2001 and held It t1llAFSPA regliTle etJler in Kashmir or the North-Easl In contrast, chance of claiming that they did not sever the fraternal/inks but you hand, SFI-JNU will not flinch from adopting frrm posmons aga1nsl 2003. During this period a major struggle was won by the JNUSUover 25 members of the SFI-JNU unit along with the AISF opted out of your-o"r'ln ...The battle to protect the purity of the opportunistic and anti-people trends within any section of the L~ft. against the JNU administrallon forcing it to abandon the infamous.
travelled to Srinagar by road in May 2012 to participate in a .
ideology can never be a lost cause; the final victory is bound to be SFI-JNU believes that the way ahead lies in such a non-sectanan X" Plan. which was pushed by the BJP led government to.
Convention on the Democratic Rights of Kashmiri Youth and ours: and open-minded praxis." saffronise the curriculum in JNU. Ma1or ach~evements of thejoined in adopting a resolution demanding Withdrawal of .
student movement were modernisation of library facilities, massi-1e.
AF.:SPA and other democratic rights of the Kasmlrl people. It is this advice from an eminent intellectual, whom even the In keeping with this approach of non-sectarian praxis purchase of new books, and providing computer and internetAISA hails as an authentic voice of dissent within the Left that representatives from SFI-JNU participated in the programme.
When such electoralism has been the halmark of AJSA's politics, facilities for students across schools. Massive mobilisations.
currently guides the SFI-JNU. If the AISA considers all this as organised to demand "Justice for Bathani Tola" in July 2012 at thedoes it befrt the AI SA to indulge in name-caning? "shadow boxing", it only exposes its political bankruptcy and against communalism and imperialist wars were undertaken by t~e.
invitation of the AJSA and the SFI.JNU also condemned the police SFI-Ied JNUSU during this period, against the antt-MushmSFI·JNU: PRINCIPLED POSfTIONS, TRANSPARENT AGENDA narrow-minded sectarianism. lathicharge against the AJSA activists during ~~~r recent .
pogroms in Gujarat in 2002 and the wars against Iraq and The AtSA is vainly trying to create confusion over the pomical TOWARDS A NON -SECTARIAN, PROGRESSIVE AND parliament march. However. when the SFI-JNU mob1hs~d JNU .
dharna for food secunty and Afghanistan..
DEMOCRATIC STUDENT MOVEMENT: In order to understand the students for the Left Parties'.
positions adopted by the SFI-JNU and rts future agenda, which have Once the ABVP was completely routed in JNU by the SFI. been transparently communicated to the student community. A issues in the debate surroundmg the SFI-JNU, AJSA needs to look universal PDS in August 2012. AISA maintal1ed its sectanan AiSA made a comeback and won the JNUSU President's post in General Body Meeting of the SFI-JNU Unit held on 13" July 2012 beyond the trivia and focus on the more serious and substantive distance. 2004 elections. where all other central panel posts and majority In had resolved that it would conttnue to abide by the SFI Programme views from the Left, which are also available in the cyberspace. JNU STUDENT MOVEMENT: SffifNG THE RECORD STRAIGHT the council were won by the SFI-AISF alliance. In January 2005 a and Constitution and express unstinted solidarity with all pro-people Aditya Nigam wrote the following in the kaftla.org: "The leadership The JNU student movement has a glorious legacy of four decades, UGBM was held on the issue of a Nestle outlet which was opened mitiatives. struggles and movements launched by the left and or SFI-JNU deserves to be congratulated for the forthnght manner 1n which the SFI-JNU inherits. Numerous struggles have been waged during the earlier SFI-Ied union's tenure AISA's position of closingdemoClatic forces aga1nst the anti-people neohberal regime. The which tt has taken a position on some of the most critical issues that .
under SFI led JNUSUs: from the struggle against the draconian down the Nestle outlet was upheld in the UGBM. whne SFI's .
SFI-JNU resolved to fight against ultra-left sectarianism of the AJSA~ concern the future of the Left tn India. It is futile at this juncture to position of retaining the outlet with certain conditions wasfirmty oppose the DSU which espouses Maoist violence and also ask lhe kind of questions that are usually asked of people who Emergency imposed by the Indira Gamlhi regime ~ th~ 1970~ to .
challenging the reactionary anti-Mandai wave and frghhng agamst defeated. The SFI accepted the UGBM mandate and later self·.
criticize and counter the nght-<Jpportunist and anti-people trends decide at some point to speak up: why did you not speak up earlier? critically noted 1n its February 2005 Delhi State Conference.
the communal offensive of the RSS-BJP in the 1990s. AJSA has.
withm any section of the lndJan left and their mamfestations in JNU. Why did you support the decision to do X? Why did you not quit Report: ~ecould not gauge the mood of the student com~nity.
always hesitated to acknowledge this legacy of the SF! in JNU and.
Sff.JNU also resolved to adopt a non-sectarian approach towards when Nandigram actually took place? There is no correct and proper of late has started distorting the history of the JNU student on this issue and ignored dissent withtn our own ranks, leadmg to .
sb.Jdent struggles relentlessly frghl for issues concerning JNU time to speak up. To speak up publicly. that is. There Is always a movement since the 1990s for narrow sectarian purposes. In order misplaced political positions which caught us wrong footed on U1e sb.Jdents, work for broad based unity among progressive and time-lag between this public expression of dissent and tts initial .
to set the record straight SFI-JNU wants to clarify the following facts: issue.".
democrallc student organizations and m~iate meanmgfuJ debates on articulations in the 'proper party forums· It always takes a long, long ! AJSA won the JNUSU President's post again 1n Octo~.rtime before people actually decide to set aside considerations of AISA won the post of the JNUSU President for the first.
socialism in the 21't century. ! 2005. The JNUSU President from the AISA first agreed to a VISit.
'discipline' -and that is a moment of reckoning for people who are time In 1993 and held it till '1995. M agitation to restore the 20.
It was on the basis of this agenda that 96 comrades who were by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to JNU in November 2005 and.
serious about their poliUcs: deprivation points system in admissions -which was scrapped.
former members and sympathisers of the SFI in JNU, including .
.. .
.