PaRCha - JNU - DSU - 2010 ID-58150

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JNUSU oHice belongs to the students! .

Administration has no rights to lock/regulate it! .

Let us fight the authoritarian administration and its stooges! .

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the past. But it has dared now. After bringing, a series of draconian circulars of various kinds of clamp down on students' rights, the Be it the period of Emergency or the sine-die of the university in 1983, the administration had never dared to lock theJNUSU office in .

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administration's latest attempt is to lock the JNUSU office. This time authoritarian administration's 'logic' is that in the absence of an elected.

I facu/ti 3 lakh JNUSU, prior permission to use the office must be taken by the students from the administration. The key to the office, is now with the Dean of interne .

Students. Yesterday the administration in a pamphlet clarified itsposition saying the JNUSU office is open in the 'office hours of weekdays' and fund tJ the latest move by the administration is to 'regulate the use of JNUSUoffice by students'. So they are clearly stating their in1entk>n to intervene denied .

in students' politics is JNU, something that is without precedence in thehistory of the university. .

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JNUSU office, quite contrary to what JNU administration wants us to believe, belongs to ALL of us. It does not solely belong to .

JNUSU office bearers. Most importantly it never belonged or will ever belong to JNU administration. Moreover, JNUSU offiCe is not a .

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mere infrastructure within the jurisprudence of our VC and its administration. In the long tradition of JNU, it stands for students' autonomy, .

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democratic spirit and as a site for protest and dissent against the powers-that-be. The attempt by the JNU administration to lock the JNUSU .

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office is an attempt to sabotage that very spirit of protest. The administration should be reminded that there was no elected JNU council in the .

27°/o 08 last three years because there is a restraint on our elections by the state in the name of imposing the Lyngdoh Committee recommendations. , criteria, ....lur legal and political battle against that is going on. But in the mean time, there was no restraint on the student movements of JNU. The ar@ inisb students have fought pitched battle against the administration against their attempts of privatization and commercializationof campus spaces, .

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ofl..:JBC ,c on workers' rights, on their draconian attempts to ban public meetings and film screenings, tor OBC reservation, hostels, against their .

.among to .the priori... administration that the students won many of these battles through their united and collective movements. So although elected JNUSU reactionary and patriarchal attempts to restrain mobility of women students and many other issues. And we would also like to remind the .

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council \'Jas not there, the spirit of protests and resistancewhich had constituted the very legacy of JNUSUhadnever seized to exist. .

The administration in JNU has time and again showed its utterly anti-student character. It has brazenly scuttJed the 27% OBC useless pi,'beautifica~ reservation in the past three years. It has repeatedly implemented an illegal merit cut off in order to bar the rightful entry of OBC students. Itstudents t~ That is precisely what the administration wants to scuttle now, by locking the JNUSU office. .

Tile most draconian face o: the administration emerged when on baseless grounds they put a restraint order on an organisation JNU Forum 11as miserably failed to provide hostels to new students. It has stopped the selling of certain food 1tems in the name of 'junk food' in the campus. .

Manu and Against War on People by banning its public meetings and printing of posters and pamphlets 1n the campus! Individual students have been to live und.

challenged harassed by the admini~tr::~ti0n with 1/')tt,...,.c:: ::lfi~ :::~cu:a,::;, 111 the name of 'proctoral enquiry' against the Forum. It is not mere coincidence that lil~ JNuSU office was locked up on 10 June, precisely the day when JNU Forum against War on People was organising i1s pub1ic .

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meeting in the office. The meeting was organized to protest against the administration's restrain order on Forum's activities including public .

are now han meetings in the hostel messes and the ongoing enquiry against it using the bogey of 'legal violations'. Teachers from JNU and DU addressed and every st .

and stood in solidarity with the Forum, condemning JNU administration's crackdown. The administration's attempt to lock the JNUSU office .

new. This is after that is astep to intensify its ongoing clamp down on our political and democratic rights..

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'Ji) gainst such unprecedented administrative clamp down, ABVP the regular stooge of the administration along with due support from .

SFI is clearly siding with the administration sabotaging the process of building up a united voice of the students! In the first AO become comt] JNU Forum against War on People, for holding their meeting in the JNUSU office. SFI at that time had committed to be a part of the unned .

~ .~rising/y g meeting that was held on this issue, all the organizations except ABVP agreed to unitedly oppose this unprecedented high handedness of the .

'academic me~ administration. ABVP flaunting its old allegiance to the authority refrained from taking part in any united protest and rather put the blame on toiling masses position. They even took responsibility of printing the joint statement. But first they delayed the entire process with flimsy excuses and after areas since th~ .

yesterday's public meeting, in another AO, they reiterated the very same arguments of ABVP, that JNUSU office should not be used for a market-prod 'partisan' purposes. They henceforth have 'disassociated' from theunited position of all organizations to fight this unprecedented gag order on the students and have even backtracked from tomorrow's demo! That SFI is a completely politically degenerate spent force is apparent yet.

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again fromthis hypocritical act of theirs. Their 'critique' of the administration on this issue holds no grounds since instead of strengthening the agencies as wei collectivebattle of the students against the administrationthey themselves are suggesting 'restrictions' on the political activities cl the students. .

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The JNUSUoffice belongs to all students. All organisations or commonstudents have used that space for their political activ~ies. It stands as a education exc/u~ .

symbol of our protest and resistance. The meeting of JNU Forum against War on People that was successfully held there also championed that .

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stooges of the administration and strengthen and intensify our struggle against the draconian administration to safeguard our hard.

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spirit of protest and defiance against the administrative ban that has been imposed on tllem. It is time that we isolate such anti-student .

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bring this corrupi earned democratic rights!.

mis-allocation Cl they must be f«J for proper infriJl .

united and defeat casteist JNU admJ tomorrow's protesi .

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