PaRCha - JNU - SFI - 1998 ID-67918
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STUDENTS FEDERATION OF INDIA .
ALL INDIA STUDI!NTS F~DERATION .
.
01.11.1998 .
ONWARDS TO JNUSU ELECTIONS 1998 .
Friends, Last year the Sfi·A/Sf sought amandate from the student community to protect the democratic culture and. academic al)' fo~s. In the backdrop of a systematic effort to.
environment of JNU which was under severe threat from the right reaction..
curtail the facilities of students by the HRD ministry, UGC and JNU Admtn1strat1on a mandate was ~u~ht to ~nlea~h student struggles under the JNUSU banner ptivatisation and commercialistaio~ .of ~igher edu~tion. Th~ spate of tnctdents mvolvmg sexual harassment in this campus had made the demand for Gender Sens1t1sation Committee Agamst Sexual Harassment {G~CASH) central to our agenda. ftbove all was the overwhelming concern to politically and ideologically defeat the communal, ~stlest~nd our polity and civil society were falling Prey to ~e~~ dectstve.
patriarchal forces namely the RSS and ABVP within JNU when agenda. We believe, through our activities over the past one year through the JNUSU, we have been able to do JUStice to the historic mandate of last year's JNUSU elections. .
The SFI-AISF seeks another historic mandate from the conscious and progressive student community of JNU, to carry forward our unfinished agenda, in the forthcoming JNUSU elections. The successful agitation of JNU students fought under the leadership of JNUSU ea~ier this semester, had secured substantial gains for the students community in terms or t~m~rary hostel accommodation, acceptance of the recommendations of the working group for the setting up of the GSCASH and bnngrng back tha Admission Policy debate in the policy making bodies of JNU. .
The SFI-AISF is committed to continue the struggle in order to consolidate these concrete gains made by the JNU students. Replacing the present decadent Admission Policy by a Progressive Admission Policy which ensures adequate deprivation points for all candidates from socially, economically, regionally and gender wise deprived sections with a maximum of 20 The Progressive Admission Policy will also ensure transparency in our Admission process.
deprivation points is high on our agenda. and strengthening of the SFCs to ensure participation of students in the decision making at the Centre Level. The SFI-AISF is also committed to the Amendment of the JNUSU constitution to add a section in the Preamble in order to make the JNUSU formally committed to gender issues and lay down the modalities for the election of student representatives in the proposed GSCASH. The .
SFI-AISF will continue with the uncompromising war against privatisation of higher education and will fight for mora hostels, more .
books and journals and better academic facilities for the students. The struggle against privatisation of higher education necessarily entails and alignment with all democratic struggles against imperialism both economic and cultural, to which the SFI-AISF is fully committed. The progressive and democratic traditions of JNU have been rocked severely, time and again by the ABVP in the recent past. Besides resorting to communal and castlest politics, they have repeatedly indulged in lumpenism and atrocities upon fellow students especially those belonging to the weaker sections. Realising that the culture of debate and discussion in JNU Is by itself a check upon the propagation of their reactionary ideology they have deliberately tried to subvert and denigrate democratic .
Today, the ABVP finding themselves thoroughly exposed in front of theinstitutions from the JNUSU Council to the UGBM. .
students, are falling back upon a hate campaign against the Left. .
It is quite natural for them because it is the Left which has taken the Initiative to unite all the secular and democratic forces in our country against the Communal and anti-people BJP led Govt. and the RSS menace which is posing a grave threat to the unity and integrity of our country. The unprecedented price rise of vegetables is now being followed by that of salt selling at Rs.50 a Kg and pulses (which constitute the single protein diet for the poorer masses) thus pushing the majority of our people on the verge of starvation. Even this is not preventing this callous Govt. in taking further steps to llberalise our economy. .
The HRD Ministry is planning to reintroduce the Private Universities Bill as the Self Financing Universities Bill in the winter session of Partiament (the Indian Express, Nov.1), which is in total defiance to the strong opposition to the bill from the organised student movement. This bid to pursue privatisation of higher education goes hand in hand with the determined bid by the RSS to 'Hinduise' it too. The RSS-run Vidya Bharati is now after English text books of the CBSE and want the poem 'The Highway .
man' by Alfred Noyer to be expunged on the grounds that they contain sexual undertones and do not conform with 'Indian Values'. .
As for the objectionable lines, they are : 'One kiss my bonny sweetheart, I'm after a prize tonight'. (Hindustan Times, 1st Nov.). The BJP led Govt. Has basically opened avenues for the Sangh Parivar to interfere into the form and content of our education and introduce their fanatical agenda into it. This fascistic effort has to be fought tooth and nail. .
The SFI-AISF urges upon all students of JNU to realize the threat posed by the RSS-BJP to education in general and to .
The agenda of SFI-AISF provides a vision and direction to the left.
higher education in particular and to unite and fight against it. movement in JNU. A conscious effort to revitalise the JNUSU and intensify the struggle on a radical agenda is necessary to fight back the onslaught of the right reactionary forces. It is with this conviction that we seek an overwhelming mandate for the SFI-AISF .
in this year's JNUSU from all students of JNU. .
SFI·AISF CANDIDATES .
CENTRAL PANEL .
PRESIDENT VIJOO KRISHNAN VICE-PRESIDENT SYED NASEER HUSSAIN GENERAL SECRETARY HIMANSHU JOINT SECRETARY ALBEENA SHAKIL .
SSS Councillors SIS Councillors SLL & CS Councillors .
Janaki S. Geeta Potsangbam Agha Md. Zafar Hussain Krishnakumar S. Ginu Zacharia Oomen Birpal Singh Yadav .
Mahesh Gopalan M. Narasimhamurthy Zahldul Haque Pahi Saikia Parimal Maya Sudhakar Ravinder Singh Randhawa Surya Pratim Sali(ar Siba Sankar Mohanty Usha Kumari .
Sdl· .
Atulan Guha & Anil Mathew .
Co-Convenors .
Central Campaign Committee .
.
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PaRCha - JNU - SFI - 1998 ID-67918
.
STUDENTS FEDERATION OF INDIA .
ALL INDIA STUDI!NTS F~DERATION .
.
01.11.1998 .
ONWARDS TO JNUSU ELECTIONS 1998 .
Friends, Last year the Sfi·A/Sf sought amandate from the student community to protect the democratic culture and. academic al)' fo~s. In the backdrop of a systematic effort to.
environment of JNU which was under severe threat from the right reaction..
curtail the facilities of students by the HRD ministry, UGC and JNU Admtn1strat1on a mandate was ~u~ht to ~nlea~h student struggles under the JNUSU banner ptivatisation and commercialistaio~ .of ~igher edu~tion. Th~ spate of tnctdents mvolvmg sexual harassment in this campus had made the demand for Gender Sens1t1sation Committee Agamst Sexual Harassment {G~CASH) central to our agenda. ftbove all was the overwhelming concern to politically and ideologically defeat the communal, ~stlest~nd our polity and civil society were falling Prey to ~e~~ dectstve.
patriarchal forces namely the RSS and ABVP within JNU when agenda. We believe, through our activities over the past one year through the JNUSU, we have been able to do JUStice to the historic mandate of last year's JNUSU elections. .
The SFI-AISF seeks another historic mandate from the conscious and progressive student community of JNU, to carry forward our unfinished agenda, in the forthcoming JNUSU elections. The successful agitation of JNU students fought under the leadership of JNUSU ea~ier this semester, had secured substantial gains for the students community in terms or t~m~rary hostel accommodation, acceptance of the recommendations of the working group for the setting up of the GSCASH and bnngrng back tha Admission Policy debate in the policy making bodies of JNU. .
The SFI-AISF is committed to continue the struggle in order to consolidate these concrete gains made by the JNU students. Replacing the present decadent Admission Policy by a Progressive Admission Policy which ensures adequate deprivation points for all candidates from socially, economically, regionally and gender wise deprived sections with a maximum of 20 The Progressive Admission Policy will also ensure transparency in our Admission process.
deprivation points is high on our agenda. and strengthening of the SFCs to ensure participation of students in the decision making at the Centre Level. The SFI-AISF is also committed to the Amendment of the JNUSU constitution to add a section in the Preamble in order to make the JNUSU formally committed to gender issues and lay down the modalities for the election of student representatives in the proposed GSCASH. The .
SFI-AISF will continue with the uncompromising war against privatisation of higher education and will fight for mora hostels, more .
books and journals and better academic facilities for the students. The struggle against privatisation of higher education necessarily entails and alignment with all democratic struggles against imperialism both economic and cultural, to which the SFI-AISF is fully committed. The progressive and democratic traditions of JNU have been rocked severely, time and again by the ABVP in the recent past. Besides resorting to communal and castlest politics, they have repeatedly indulged in lumpenism and atrocities upon fellow students especially those belonging to the weaker sections. Realising that the culture of debate and discussion in JNU Is by itself a check upon the propagation of their reactionary ideology they have deliberately tried to subvert and denigrate democratic .
Today, the ABVP finding themselves thoroughly exposed in front of theinstitutions from the JNUSU Council to the UGBM. .
students, are falling back upon a hate campaign against the Left. .
It is quite natural for them because it is the Left which has taken the Initiative to unite all the secular and democratic forces in our country against the Communal and anti-people BJP led Govt. and the RSS menace which is posing a grave threat to the unity and integrity of our country. The unprecedented price rise of vegetables is now being followed by that of salt selling at Rs.50 a Kg and pulses (which constitute the single protein diet for the poorer masses) thus pushing the majority of our people on the verge of starvation. Even this is not preventing this callous Govt. in taking further steps to llberalise our economy. .
The HRD Ministry is planning to reintroduce the Private Universities Bill as the Self Financing Universities Bill in the winter session of Partiament (the Indian Express, Nov.1), which is in total defiance to the strong opposition to the bill from the organised student movement. This bid to pursue privatisation of higher education goes hand in hand with the determined bid by the RSS to 'Hinduise' it too. The RSS-run Vidya Bharati is now after English text books of the CBSE and want the poem 'The Highway .
man' by Alfred Noyer to be expunged on the grounds that they contain sexual undertones and do not conform with 'Indian Values'. .
As for the objectionable lines, they are : 'One kiss my bonny sweetheart, I'm after a prize tonight'. (Hindustan Times, 1st Nov.). The BJP led Govt. Has basically opened avenues for the Sangh Parivar to interfere into the form and content of our education and introduce their fanatical agenda into it. This fascistic effort has to be fought tooth and nail. .
The SFI-AISF urges upon all students of JNU to realize the threat posed by the RSS-BJP to education in general and to .
The agenda of SFI-AISF provides a vision and direction to the left.
higher education in particular and to unite and fight against it. movement in JNU. A conscious effort to revitalise the JNUSU and intensify the struggle on a radical agenda is necessary to fight back the onslaught of the right reactionary forces. It is with this conviction that we seek an overwhelming mandate for the SFI-AISF .
in this year's JNUSU from all students of JNU. .
SFI·AISF CANDIDATES .
CENTRAL PANEL .
PRESIDENT VIJOO KRISHNAN VICE-PRESIDENT SYED NASEER HUSSAIN GENERAL SECRETARY HIMANSHU JOINT SECRETARY ALBEENA SHAKIL .
SSS Councillors SIS Councillors SLL & CS Councillors .
Janaki S. Geeta Potsangbam Agha Md. Zafar Hussain Krishnakumar S. Ginu Zacharia Oomen Birpal Singh Yadav .
Mahesh Gopalan M. Narasimhamurthy Zahldul Haque Pahi Saikia Parimal Maya Sudhakar Ravinder Singh Randhawa Surya Pratim Sali(ar Siba Sankar Mohanty Usha Kumari .
Sdl· .
Atulan Guha & Anil Mathew .
Co-Convenors .
Central Campaign Committee .
.
.