PaRCha - JNU - Manifestos Convenor Reports - 2014 ID-66640
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people's movements against the state's anti-people policies. The same is the case-with the Lyngdoh Committee guidelines which claims to be a champion of democratic rights of the students and directed against the use of money & muscle power. But it is ultimately aimed at curbing the democratic movements of the students and to silence the voices .
of dissent. The political-ideological agenda of Lyngdoh is unambiguously manifest when it states that students must be 'nationalist', 'integrationist' and 'law abiding' (clause 6). At a time when the ruling class discourse of 'nationalist-integrationist' tantamounts to supporting the ruling classes' assault on the people and all kind of dissent and protest is .
being branded as 'sedition' and 'waging war against the state', one can clearly foresee the kind of politics that Lyngdoh .
aims to further and fortify. .
Unlike its stated aim, Lyngdoh was brought in with a singular aim of curbing the .
"Unionisation in higher autonomy and fighting potential of students' unions. The Birla Ambani Report on education personnel is a higher education, several World Bank and Knowledge Commission reports identified major impediment. When you organized students' movement and student politics as the biggest impediment towards talk to students unions, I am their project of privatization of universities. LCR is nothing but a penal instrument in the not sure that they are arguing hands of the administration to push through the project of Liberalization-Privatization-for the kinds of things that are .
oriented towards educational .
Globalization (LPG) in higher education. We all know how in recent years, education has .
reform. They are certainly .
emerged as the most lucrative form of resources to be marketed and sold for profit. The interested in keeping fees .
state right now has a series of educational reforms bill in the pipeline -from the Foreign low.· .
Educational Institutions (Regulation of Entry and Operation) Bill, 2010, Prohibition of Former Planning Commission .
Vice Chairman Montek Singh.
.
Unfair Practices in Technical and Med1cal Educational Institutions and Universities Bill, .
Ahluwalia.
.
2010, Educational Tribunals Bill 2010, The National Accreditation Regulatory Authority .
for Higher Educational Institutions Bill 2010, National Commission for Higher Education .
and Research (NCHER) Bill 2010, etc-and with their passage, the aim of the Indian state to let the market have a free .
hand in the market will be complete. Even before the passing of these bills, the state's drive to privatize education and .
commercialize campuses are quite manifest in our campus also. Be it the hike in the establishment charges, the rising .
mess bills, the pitiably low MCM scholarship amount, making private-public partnership with publication houses to sell of .
rights to our own research or the recent attempts of the administration to sell over our dhabas and restructure the .
progressive shop allotment policy in favour of the highest bidder policy -such assaults on our campus are only bound to .
increase. It is only to bulldoze these measures and gag all voices of dissent and suppress all opposition that can come .
from organized student politics that Lyngdoh guidelines were made. Lyngdoh report very unabashedly declares this in .
on of its clauses which states that its aim is to curb the 'unnecessary politicization' of the campuses. .
It is not that JNU student movement did not foresee these outcomes, and in the wake of the stay on JNUSU .
election in 2008, in a historic UGBM, over 2000 students unanimously rejected in toto. A platform, named Joint .
Struggle Committee was formed to fight Lyngdoh in the court and carry on the political struggle outside. Under the .
leadership of JSC hundreds of students marched in Delhi streets, were detained. Our continuous protest and resistance .
to curb our democratic space by suspending JNUSU constitution was instrumental in favourable verdict where LCR's .
constitutional validity was itself questioned. But as it often happens, it is the leadership which failed the students and this .
failure today foretells really bad times for the student movement. When the student community'mandated in a UGBM .
held on g th Jan 2012 that elections be held according to LCR, the same mandate also clearly stated that this was only to .
be an interim measure with the first task of the upcoming JNUSU to be to intensify the fight against LCR. However, the .
student community has only witnessed how the elected union has only tried to bury this most important question and .
remove it from the collective memory of the students. Since elections were held as per LCR, it is going to be the third .
JNUSU which is going to complete its tenure in less than a month's time and for the time being there is absolutely no .
intention on their part also to resist LCR. Given this circumstances, the present AISA-Ied JNUSU has today lost all credibility in the eyes of the students to lead any struggle against LCR. When there were shameful attempts to project 'acceptance' of Lyngdoh as a fait-accompli, the initiatives by several anti-Lyngdoh forces who came together to form the Joint Front against Lyngdoh fast year has once again successfully foregrounded that the fight against Lyngdoh remains the most crucial challenge for the student movement of this campus. We, the undersigned organizations, as part of the Joint Front hold the opinion that before LCR is normalized in this campus (unfortunately with the active complicity of our elected union), we must renew our resolve to struggle against Lyngdoh. Especially so, given increasing attack on the campus democracy and aggressive push of LPG in education, it is JNU student community's responsibility to lead the struggle against any such onslaughts. We also believe our struggle against privatization-brahamnisation of education must begin with our struggle against Lyngdoh. We appeal to the student community to participate in large numbers and vote a resounding "NO" to Lyngdoh in upcoming students' referendum on 121h August. 2014. Let us in unison send our .
voice clear and loud in rejection of Lyngdoh in toto and defense of our JNUSU constitution. .
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AISF I CFI I DSF I DSU I KNS I.
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PaRCha - JNU - Manifestos Convenor Reports - 2014 ID-66640
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ilrr.. ·.~. .
people's movements against the state's anti-people policies. The same is the case-with the Lyngdoh Committee guidelines which claims to be a champion of democratic rights of the students and directed against the use of money & muscle power. But it is ultimately aimed at curbing the democratic movements of the students and to silence the voices .
of dissent. The political-ideological agenda of Lyngdoh is unambiguously manifest when it states that students must be 'nationalist', 'integrationist' and 'law abiding' (clause 6). At a time when the ruling class discourse of 'nationalist-integrationist' tantamounts to supporting the ruling classes' assault on the people and all kind of dissent and protest is .
being branded as 'sedition' and 'waging war against the state', one can clearly foresee the kind of politics that Lyngdoh .
aims to further and fortify. .
Unlike its stated aim, Lyngdoh was brought in with a singular aim of curbing the .
"Unionisation in higher autonomy and fighting potential of students' unions. The Birla Ambani Report on education personnel is a higher education, several World Bank and Knowledge Commission reports identified major impediment. When you organized students' movement and student politics as the biggest impediment towards talk to students unions, I am their project of privatization of universities. LCR is nothing but a penal instrument in the not sure that they are arguing hands of the administration to push through the project of Liberalization-Privatization-for the kinds of things that are .
oriented towards educational .
Globalization (LPG) in higher education. We all know how in recent years, education has .
reform. They are certainly .
emerged as the most lucrative form of resources to be marketed and sold for profit. The interested in keeping fees .
state right now has a series of educational reforms bill in the pipeline -from the Foreign low.· .
Educational Institutions (Regulation of Entry and Operation) Bill, 2010, Prohibition of Former Planning Commission .
Vice Chairman Montek Singh.
.
Unfair Practices in Technical and Med1cal Educational Institutions and Universities Bill, .
Ahluwalia.
.
2010, Educational Tribunals Bill 2010, The National Accreditation Regulatory Authority .
for Higher Educational Institutions Bill 2010, National Commission for Higher Education .
and Research (NCHER) Bill 2010, etc-and with their passage, the aim of the Indian state to let the market have a free .
hand in the market will be complete. Even before the passing of these bills, the state's drive to privatize education and .
commercialize campuses are quite manifest in our campus also. Be it the hike in the establishment charges, the rising .
mess bills, the pitiably low MCM scholarship amount, making private-public partnership with publication houses to sell of .
rights to our own research or the recent attempts of the administration to sell over our dhabas and restructure the .
progressive shop allotment policy in favour of the highest bidder policy -such assaults on our campus are only bound to .
increase. It is only to bulldoze these measures and gag all voices of dissent and suppress all opposition that can come .
from organized student politics that Lyngdoh guidelines were made. Lyngdoh report very unabashedly declares this in .
on of its clauses which states that its aim is to curb the 'unnecessary politicization' of the campuses. .
It is not that JNU student movement did not foresee these outcomes, and in the wake of the stay on JNUSU .
election in 2008, in a historic UGBM, over 2000 students unanimously rejected in toto. A platform, named Joint .
Struggle Committee was formed to fight Lyngdoh in the court and carry on the political struggle outside. Under the .
leadership of JSC hundreds of students marched in Delhi streets, were detained. Our continuous protest and resistance .
to curb our democratic space by suspending JNUSU constitution was instrumental in favourable verdict where LCR's .
constitutional validity was itself questioned. But as it often happens, it is the leadership which failed the students and this .
failure today foretells really bad times for the student movement. When the student community'mandated in a UGBM .
held on g th Jan 2012 that elections be held according to LCR, the same mandate also clearly stated that this was only to .
be an interim measure with the first task of the upcoming JNUSU to be to intensify the fight against LCR. However, the .
student community has only witnessed how the elected union has only tried to bury this most important question and .
remove it from the collective memory of the students. Since elections were held as per LCR, it is going to be the third .
JNUSU which is going to complete its tenure in less than a month's time and for the time being there is absolutely no .
intention on their part also to resist LCR. Given this circumstances, the present AISA-Ied JNUSU has today lost all credibility in the eyes of the students to lead any struggle against LCR. When there were shameful attempts to project 'acceptance' of Lyngdoh as a fait-accompli, the initiatives by several anti-Lyngdoh forces who came together to form the Joint Front against Lyngdoh fast year has once again successfully foregrounded that the fight against Lyngdoh remains the most crucial challenge for the student movement of this campus. We, the undersigned organizations, as part of the Joint Front hold the opinion that before LCR is normalized in this campus (unfortunately with the active complicity of our elected union), we must renew our resolve to struggle against Lyngdoh. Especially so, given increasing attack on the campus democracy and aggressive push of LPG in education, it is JNU student community's responsibility to lead the struggle against any such onslaughts. We also believe our struggle against privatization-brahamnisation of education must begin with our struggle against Lyngdoh. We appeal to the student community to participate in large numbers and vote a resounding "NO" to Lyngdoh in upcoming students' referendum on 121h August. 2014. Let us in unison send our .
voice clear and loud in rejection of Lyngdoh in toto and defense of our JNUSU constitution. .
..
. .
AISF I CFI I DSF I DSU I KNS I.
J.. t' .F . t t.L 'd'.:[l' .
! ··~ Struggle Committee I TNM I UDSF.
~ .
.