PaRCha - JNU - PSU SFR SCB - 2012 ID-67247
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AMARRIAGE CONSUMATED: FROM RADICALISM TO OBEDIENCE .
6.1.20) 2.
struggle ofLyngdoh would continue even after the "cceptancc of Lyngcloh, but then all these organizations had previously seen .
The merger is complete. And so is the rhetoric. The brigade of AlSA-ABVP-NSUI-SFI-AlSF might well keep chanting that theamicable combination. It would not be too feu stretched th:.st the Lyngdoh recommendations seem to have been applied to their .
Lyngdoh and JNUSU constitution ns mutual1y exc'lusive and even contradictory, whereas at present they see these two as a very.
politics even before it being passed by the UGBJ\.1!.
'democracy' has no time for 'politics'. lt would seem from AJS/\-SFI-AI3VP-NSUI-A1SF·s demeanor that.
.
In their insi~tencc and shameless compromises for 'getting back' the democratic representative institutions of the JNU stutlent body, there is ::m overburdened hurry laced with a false earnestness. This belies .
the fact of a defeat that they who have been defeated would like to deny The farce being peddled by the five organizations as the 'return' of the political procedure of representntion that the JNU student body cherishes is nothing Jess than a shameful betrayal of the student movement. After the la~t UC!BP-1 these five organi7~ttions hnd stated that they had successfully negotiated.
poster and pamphlets, attendance and a few other mndJltties \Vhat ensued l~ltcr was a completely changed scenario. Far from and that they would be seeking a relnxation on a number of ground~ including-repeat, age, criminnl record, disciplinary action, .
achieving their stated objecti\es, ''hich 1 ight fully put by them was in itscl f a compromise, the verdict of the court put aside .
these negotiations and compromises. and only pernHttcd one .md quarter relax11tions, i.e. increase in age limit and secondly the.
was not applicable in thl· c~t.se of JNU and thctdon.: cannot in ;Illy mc;tsur e be counted as a relaxation. The 'nutonomy' of the pennission to ha' e po'\ters :wd p3mphkts subject to an expenditure limit per candidate. Needles to say the attendance clause .
student bod) has been tlwrnU!'hly compromtscd oliHI the .Rel;IX.Ition'-1. lh:ll these organizations hatl based their claims upon up .
·ll the last UGHI\1 has been nullified bv lh~ cou11. B~ peddli ng such dts~,r~leLful condition" as acceptable, these organizations ~. ,, e ~xposcd the complete lo"s of mtcgr it~ :md thn~rorl' their right to rl'pre~l'nt lht: student body. From the very beginning ofminimum !'taiHJJrd._· Yet th~.1::-.c s:trne t)rg.tnJ;.tfJOll~ arc tnd.1y busy readying for a decisi'e push for elections under' irtuzdly the .
complete enforcement nf Lyngd('h the struggle the :-.tudent body has gl\-cn the m,HHLtk IILtl l\ en if lll'got1ations arc held they cannot compromise on 'certain.
f he .~i luatiOil \\ e 311..' 110\\' .
11 .
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IS fJr fl'(IJl1 IIJL~ lh.:gott.th.~d PJl(', Jet ;llollC the dl' "iirahk Olle. fhe modalities Of thi<.i are yet tO be kno\,n. fo1get the details and 1n1ric1cic-. \\'hi~h would f opcn the tkb:1te to th~.. '-ludcnt community. Mtght \\'e remind them that those And yet those seeking urgency forconcerned wtth the immetliacy ut ckctiOih today \\'Crc ' 'it!t>l'PLI'-Iy ~~"kin'~ f(>r :1 blueprint in pn.:viou" UGBivis Thnt those who .
keep talking of depoli tic1lJI ion shoulJ remunb~r that e\.l'l1 p1 101 to 1 yngdoh the castusl Y 1~ E hnd come second in the elections m 2007, n clear indtcation lh:lt de p(llitic11alion ha:-to do\\ 11h factor::-; beyond that of elections. Interestingly. tho:-,e who keep.
a debate. with the only Cll!Kem being thJt of getting ~111 agenda P~"-Sl'd. The fact rcmc1ins clear for aJJ to sec, \\·hen the saying that an hone~t di::;~..u... sion \\'ith 311 po::.sibilities should be talked ~~bout\\ 1th the ':ltudents ha\e today shut the possibility ofopp01tunity to discuss the details of the elcct1ons and the mod:llitil''-lonccrnetl if the agenda \\ere to be p::~!)sed through. ,\nd it registration date is t1ll the 9111 of J.1Jluary. they clwose to (Onduct th~.. lKiBl\1 on the same date thereby denying stutlents any.
have done their best and the rest '"' ns 'bound to happen'. .
is by now established that these orgamzation~ ;ue willing for J I yngdoh based JNUSU. albeit with a tinge ofremorse that they.
Fatalism cannot be a strategy of left politics. And definitely the kind of Fntnlism of the three who are part of the fi,·e brigade.
'6tleself of having been radicnl and then in an act of seeming helplessness submit oneself under the reign of Lyngdoh. That for .
qkes one wonder if there is any of 'left' in their politics at all. ,\ pecul1ar fatalism where the ultimate concern is to satisfy .
all their radicali<.~m and progressive politics they fail to even engage in a discussion of the consequences of a Lyngdoh based .
union. What else can explain their rigidity 10 conduct UGBMs and then hold elections in the 'immedi3te' future? .
however not the first time that our so called progJ essive left organizations have tried to scuttle the pOS$ibility of debate and .
discussion. This has been done repeatedly by suggesting self imposed censor, i.e. by 01 gnnizations limiting themselves to giving This is.
only 10 candidates in the speakers' list, by restricting the timings of the UG Bl'v1s, by cutting short the Jebates in school GBMS .
during the process ofelecting the election committee (EC) post the last UGBM..
The writing is clear. That the upcoming UGB1v1 will be a witness to those who have claimed revolutionary politics while scuttling any democratic spaces, forget any radical potential. That those who keep condemning sell-outs have shown earnest and .
a hurry to sell out the JNUSU constitution. We urge the student community to resist a Lyngdoh based union in this campus, which ·we cherish today because of what has been handed down to us, a democratic and vibrant campus. It is our responsibility at this stage· to intensify our struggle against forces such as the Lyngdoh rather than to becoming J wilJing audience for it. Let us remind them that the student movement was never about only elections, that movements do exists even when rhe crack of the .
authoritarian state is felt the most and thnt having a JNUSU without autonomy would be a brcakdov.. .
n of the student movementrather than merely using the student community for approval rather than engaging us in a debate. itself. But for all this, these organizations have to answer the student community about their roadmaps, about their negotiations.
Sd/-Rafi, PSU-JNU Sd/-Divya, PSU-JNU. .
.
PaRCha - JNU - PSU SFR SCB - 2012 ID-67247
.
AMARRIAGE CONSUMATED: FROM RADICALISM TO OBEDIENCE .
6.1.20) 2.
struggle ofLyngdoh would continue even after the "cceptancc of Lyngcloh, but then all these organizations had previously seen .
The merger is complete. And so is the rhetoric. The brigade of AlSA-ABVP-NSUI-SFI-AlSF might well keep chanting that theamicable combination. It would not be too feu stretched th:.st the Lyngdoh recommendations seem to have been applied to their .
Lyngdoh and JNUSU constitution ns mutual1y exc'lusive and even contradictory, whereas at present they see these two as a very.
politics even before it being passed by the UGBJ\.1!.
'democracy' has no time for 'politics'. lt would seem from AJS/\-SFI-AI3VP-NSUI-A1SF·s demeanor that.
.
In their insi~tencc and shameless compromises for 'getting back' the democratic representative institutions of the JNU stutlent body, there is ::m overburdened hurry laced with a false earnestness. This belies .
the fact of a defeat that they who have been defeated would like to deny The farce being peddled by the five organizations as the 'return' of the political procedure of representntion that the JNU student body cherishes is nothing Jess than a shameful betrayal of the student movement. After the la~t UC!BP-1 these five organi7~ttions hnd stated that they had successfully negotiated.
poster and pamphlets, attendance and a few other mndJltties \Vhat ensued l~ltcr was a completely changed scenario. Far from and that they would be seeking a relnxation on a number of ground~ including-repeat, age, criminnl record, disciplinary action, .
achieving their stated objecti\es, ''hich 1 ight fully put by them was in itscl f a compromise, the verdict of the court put aside .
these negotiations and compromises. and only pernHttcd one .md quarter relax11tions, i.e. increase in age limit and secondly the.
was not applicable in thl· c~t.se of JNU and thctdon.: cannot in ;Illy mc;tsur e be counted as a relaxation. The 'nutonomy' of the pennission to ha' e po'\ters :wd p3mphkts subject to an expenditure limit per candidate. Needles to say the attendance clause .
student bod) has been tlwrnU!'hly compromtscd oliHI the .Rel;IX.Ition'-1. lh:ll these organizations hatl based their claims upon up .
·ll the last UGHI\1 has been nullified bv lh~ cou11. B~ peddli ng such dts~,r~leLful condition" as acceptable, these organizations ~. ,, e ~xposcd the complete lo"s of mtcgr it~ :md thn~rorl' their right to rl'pre~l'nt lht: student body. From the very beginning ofminimum !'taiHJJrd._· Yet th~.1::-.c s:trne t)rg.tnJ;.tfJOll~ arc tnd.1y busy readying for a decisi'e push for elections under' irtuzdly the .
complete enforcement nf Lyngd('h the struggle the :-.tudent body has gl\-cn the m,HHLtk IILtl l\ en if lll'got1ations arc held they cannot compromise on 'certain.
f he .~i luatiOil \\ e 311..' 110\\' .
11 .
.
IS fJr fl'(IJl1 IIJL~ lh.:gott.th.~d PJl(', Jet ;llollC the dl' "iirahk Olle. fhe modalities Of thi<.i are yet tO be kno\,n. fo1get the details and 1n1ric1cic-. \\'hi~h would f opcn the tkb:1te to th~.. '-ludcnt community. Mtght \\'e remind them that those And yet those seeking urgency forconcerned wtth the immetliacy ut ckctiOih today \\'Crc ' 'it!t>l'PLI'-Iy ~~"kin'~ f(>r :1 blueprint in pn.:viou" UGBivis Thnt those who .
keep talking of depoli tic1lJI ion shoulJ remunb~r that e\.l'l1 p1 101 to 1 yngdoh the castusl Y 1~ E hnd come second in the elections m 2007, n clear indtcation lh:lt de p(llitic11alion ha:-to do\\ 11h factor::-; beyond that of elections. Interestingly. tho:-,e who keep.
a debate. with the only Cll!Kem being thJt of getting ~111 agenda P~"-Sl'd. The fact rcmc1ins clear for aJJ to sec, \\·hen the saying that an hone~t di::;~..u... sion \\'ith 311 po::.sibilities should be talked ~~bout\\ 1th the ':ltudents ha\e today shut the possibility ofopp01tunity to discuss the details of the elcct1ons and the mod:llitil''-lonccrnetl if the agenda \\ere to be p::~!)sed through. ,\nd it registration date is t1ll the 9111 of J.1Jluary. they clwose to (Onduct th~.. lKiBl\1 on the same date thereby denying stutlents any.
have done their best and the rest '"' ns 'bound to happen'. .
is by now established that these orgamzation~ ;ue willing for J I yngdoh based JNUSU. albeit with a tinge ofremorse that they.
Fatalism cannot be a strategy of left politics. And definitely the kind of Fntnlism of the three who are part of the fi,·e brigade.
'6tleself of having been radicnl and then in an act of seeming helplessness submit oneself under the reign of Lyngdoh. That for .
qkes one wonder if there is any of 'left' in their politics at all. ,\ pecul1ar fatalism where the ultimate concern is to satisfy .
all their radicali<.~m and progressive politics they fail to even engage in a discussion of the consequences of a Lyngdoh based .
union. What else can explain their rigidity 10 conduct UGBMs and then hold elections in the 'immedi3te' future? .
however not the first time that our so called progJ essive left organizations have tried to scuttle the pOS$ibility of debate and .
discussion. This has been done repeatedly by suggesting self imposed censor, i.e. by 01 gnnizations limiting themselves to giving This is.
only 10 candidates in the speakers' list, by restricting the timings of the UG Bl'v1s, by cutting short the Jebates in school GBMS .
during the process ofelecting the election committee (EC) post the last UGBM..
The writing is clear. That the upcoming UGB1v1 will be a witness to those who have claimed revolutionary politics while scuttling any democratic spaces, forget any radical potential. That those who keep condemning sell-outs have shown earnest and .
a hurry to sell out the JNUSU constitution. We urge the student community to resist a Lyngdoh based union in this campus, which ·we cherish today because of what has been handed down to us, a democratic and vibrant campus. It is our responsibility at this stage· to intensify our struggle against forces such as the Lyngdoh rather than to becoming J wilJing audience for it. Let us remind them that the student movement was never about only elections, that movements do exists even when rhe crack of the .
authoritarian state is felt the most and thnt having a JNUSU without autonomy would be a brcakdov.. .
n of the student movementrather than merely using the student community for approval rather than engaging us in a debate. itself. But for all this, these organizations have to answer the student community about their roadmaps, about their negotiations.
Sd/-Rafi, PSU-JNU Sd/-Divya, PSU-JNU. .
.