PaRCha - JNU - AISA - 2006 ID-2530
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On September 29 at Khertanji vllage near Nagpur, 12 reudal goons 'punished' a Daltt mother Surekha Bhotmange for struggling agamst capture of her land· they brutally publicly gangraped her and her daughter and ktlled her sons For two .
12.11 .06 .
months, llus horror was tgnored by the medta, until the Vtdarbha Jan Andolan ratsed it as a campaign. This evening, various social groups held a Protest Demonstration against this rape and massacre at India Gate -which was joined by AISA activists and JNU students. AISA calls upon JNU students to ioln UDSFJis Protest March In large numbers· tonight( 12.11.06) from Ganga Dhaba at1 0.30 pm . .
JNUSU Mandate 2006: A Referendum For Reservations, Against Casteist YFE and Communal ABVP I Against the UPA Govt.'s Surrender to US Imperialism I Against Betrayals of the Movements against Nee-liberal Economic Policies, Displacement and SEZs, and AFSPA 1 Oesptte an aggresstve medta campa gn virtually declanng the YFE s ·victory even whtle the polls were in progress. JNU .
stud&nts did not find much 'merit' in the YFE brand of corporate-backed casteism1 Desp1te the YFE's emergence as a pole and broad platform for the Rlght-wtng forces on the campus JNU students have ftrmly exposed and rebuffed the YFE's reacttonary agenda Further, they have also defeated the ABVP's shrill communal and Jingoistic campaign and decimated the NSUI .
AI SA victory 1n two key posts in the JNUSU Central Panel and AISA's victory on Councillor seats with h1gh scores tn three Schools shows that the JNU student communtty affirmed AISA's .
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Long pro-reservat1on struggle and tts 34-day HungerStnke against the YFE's anti-quota plank: .
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Struggle agatnst corporate takeover of land and resources-be it tn JNU through the Nestle Outlet or nationally through SEZs. .
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Black Flag Protest against Manmohan Stngh on his JNU visit a year ago .
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Outspoken demand for Justice for Afzal and a Parltamentary Enquiry to identify those responsible for theAttack on Parliament. .
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Call for gender-Just principles 1n polit1cs, .
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·And last year's AISA-led JNUSU's leadership of successful struggles for increased MCM for needy students The YFE's attempt to hijack the Left slogans of People untted shall always be victorious' and the 1mmortal song penned by Bhagat Singh s comrade Ram Prasad 81smil -Sarfaroshi ki tamanna n the same breath as the the v1c1ously anti-Left ABVP slogan of 'Ho Ho Ho ChtMtnh. Bharat Chhodo Bhago Gheen' was grotesQue nd culous and laughable JNU students well know that Bhagat Smgh and his revoluttonary trad1t1on was a soc1alrst commun st trad1hon -firmly Left 1n 1ts outlook Bhagat S1ngh himself repeatedly saluted Lentn and other leaders of the international commun.st and antt-impenal st trad1tion Those who be-lieve that Commumsts admiring Ho Cht Minh and Chavez should leave the natton have no nght to take Bhagat Singh s name or try to appropriate the songs of his comrades! Wtll YFE dare to utter Bhagat Stngh s clanon call to the dahts and backward castes (whom he called the true proletanat~) "Sleeping lions, rise up and rebel you are the mam base of tflis country, the real force. Bring about a revolution w1th your social movement.. ,. The JNU students community must be alert and vigilant to further marginalise the YFE phenomenon. Whtle mobilizing students in struggles to demand imp!ementattvn of 27% quotas for OBCs and 54% increase in seats without delay, the JNUSU must restst the YFE's efforts to fan up a casteist react1on The campaign to expose YFE's fake claims of 'Equality' and its real agenda of perpetuating 1nequalrty must also be intensified The mcrease in AISA's vote share. and its presence in JNUSU w1th redoubled strength is also a powerful mandate agamst the unconstitutional year-long boycott of the JNUSU President by the SFI-AISF component of the outgoing JNUSU, and the SFI-AISF last-ditch attempts to discredit AISA's and the AISA-led JNUSU's role tn the struggle to increase MCM amount. Further, a disturb-ing fact was the way in which both uns1gned leaflets pertainrng to the MCM movement were d1stnbuted. AISA candidates caught two outsiders on a bike (faces covered) pasting a notice full of lies on the MCM 1ssue (comciding with the YFE-ABVP's anti-campaign on MCM), on No Campa1gning Day, and handed them over to the secunty and pohce· however the leaflets reappeared as a leaflet in the messes· and were not confiscated Again, on the day of the election the same leaflet was distnbuted openly. SFI-AISF aC;tJvists were also seen d1stributrng another leaflet m1sleadrngly attnbuted to ·" 5 students who sat on Indefinite Hunger Strike' (though many of the Hunger Stnkers had no knowledge of tt}. w1thout subm!ltmg a copy to the EC as the Code ofConduct stipulates. It is disturbing that a g1rl student who rs a complatnant tn a sexual harassment case against a student leader of the SFI was dtsentranch1sed for distnbut1ng a leaflet w1thout submttting a copy to the EC -but those of the YFE/ABVP and SFI-AISF who did so on the day ofthe election were not penalised in any way Such events tend to lower the level of political pract1ce. and do not bode well for JNU's democracy. In the Tenth Anniversary year of former JNUSU President Comrade Chandrashekhar's martyrdom, 1t IS a fitttng tribute that AISA has won the Vice-President and General Secretary posts 1n the JNUSU polls 2007 will mark a full decade of the martyrdom of former JNUSU President Comrade Chandrashekhar. shot dead in Siwan by a mafia don-turned MP. As JNU's tribute to Comrade Chandrashekhar and to the student movement following his murder, the JNUSU will strive that JNU should set up an Archive of People's Movements -with documentation, films, photographs and footage, fact-findtng reports. etc. Contributions to this Archive can be sought from Citizens's groups, filmmakers. movemental groups, journalists from all over the Country, and JNU students will also be encouraged to make efforts to doocumenUstudy people's struggles Further, 2007 is also the Birth Centenary Year of Shaheed-o-Azam Bhagat Singh The JNUSU should explore the setting up of a Library on the lines of the PC Joshi Archives, providing extensive documentation and translations Into many national and international languages of the writings of the Indian revolutionaries of the freedom struggle. Ef-forts must also be to explore ways to Include such writings in the syllabi of JNU's academiC programmes. .
AISA thanks the JNU student commumty tor strengthentng the democratic process wtth tts enthusiastic part'Cipahon in the elections We also thank the entire JNU EC ror the efficient, smooth and able way in which tl conducted the entire Election Process .
sd/-Rajesh Ranjan. VP, AISA, JNU sdf. Alankar, Jt Secy., AISA, JNU .
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PaRCha - JNU - AISA - 2006 ID-2530
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On September 29 at Khertanji vllage near Nagpur, 12 reudal goons 'punished' a Daltt mother Surekha Bhotmange for struggling agamst capture of her land· they brutally publicly gangraped her and her daughter and ktlled her sons For two .
12.11 .06 .
months, llus horror was tgnored by the medta, until the Vtdarbha Jan Andolan ratsed it as a campaign. This evening, various social groups held a Protest Demonstration against this rape and massacre at India Gate -which was joined by AISA activists and JNU students. AISA calls upon JNU students to ioln UDSFJis Protest March In large numbers· tonight( 12.11.06) from Ganga Dhaba at1 0.30 pm . .
JNUSU Mandate 2006: A Referendum For Reservations, Against Casteist YFE and Communal ABVP I Against the UPA Govt.'s Surrender to US Imperialism I Against Betrayals of the Movements against Nee-liberal Economic Policies, Displacement and SEZs, and AFSPA 1 Oesptte an aggresstve medta campa gn virtually declanng the YFE s ·victory even whtle the polls were in progress. JNU .
stud&nts did not find much 'merit' in the YFE brand of corporate-backed casteism1 Desp1te the YFE's emergence as a pole and broad platform for the Rlght-wtng forces on the campus JNU students have ftrmly exposed and rebuffed the YFE's reacttonary agenda Further, they have also defeated the ABVP's shrill communal and Jingoistic campaign and decimated the NSUI .
AI SA victory 1n two key posts in the JNUSU Central Panel and AISA's victory on Councillor seats with h1gh scores tn three Schools shows that the JNU student communtty affirmed AISA's .
.
Long pro-reservat1on struggle and tts 34-day HungerStnke against the YFE's anti-quota plank: .
.
.
Struggle agatnst corporate takeover of land and resources-be it tn JNU through the Nestle Outlet or nationally through SEZs. .
.
.
Black Flag Protest against Manmohan Stngh on his JNU visit a year ago .
.
.
Outspoken demand for Justice for Afzal and a Parltamentary Enquiry to identify those responsible for theAttack on Parliament. .
.
.
Call for gender-Just principles 1n polit1cs, .
.
.
·And last year's AISA-led JNUSU's leadership of successful struggles for increased MCM for needy students The YFE's attempt to hijack the Left slogans of People untted shall always be victorious' and the 1mmortal song penned by Bhagat Singh s comrade Ram Prasad 81smil -Sarfaroshi ki tamanna n the same breath as the the v1c1ously anti-Left ABVP slogan of 'Ho Ho Ho ChtMtnh. Bharat Chhodo Bhago Gheen' was grotesQue nd culous and laughable JNU students well know that Bhagat Smgh and his revoluttonary trad1t1on was a soc1alrst commun st trad1hon -firmly Left 1n 1ts outlook Bhagat S1ngh himself repeatedly saluted Lentn and other leaders of the international commun.st and antt-impenal st trad1tion Those who be-lieve that Commumsts admiring Ho Cht Minh and Chavez should leave the natton have no nght to take Bhagat Singh s name or try to appropriate the songs of his comrades! Wtll YFE dare to utter Bhagat Stngh s clanon call to the dahts and backward castes (whom he called the true proletanat~) "Sleeping lions, rise up and rebel you are the mam base of tflis country, the real force. Bring about a revolution w1th your social movement.. ,. The JNU students community must be alert and vigilant to further marginalise the YFE phenomenon. Whtle mobilizing students in struggles to demand imp!ementattvn of 27% quotas for OBCs and 54% increase in seats without delay, the JNUSU must restst the YFE's efforts to fan up a casteist react1on The campaign to expose YFE's fake claims of 'Equality' and its real agenda of perpetuating 1nequalrty must also be intensified The mcrease in AISA's vote share. and its presence in JNUSU w1th redoubled strength is also a powerful mandate agamst the unconstitutional year-long boycott of the JNUSU President by the SFI-AISF component of the outgoing JNUSU, and the SFI-AISF last-ditch attempts to discredit AISA's and the AISA-led JNUSU's role tn the struggle to increase MCM amount. Further, a disturb-ing fact was the way in which both uns1gned leaflets pertainrng to the MCM movement were d1stnbuted. AISA candidates caught two outsiders on a bike (faces covered) pasting a notice full of lies on the MCM 1ssue (comciding with the YFE-ABVP's anti-campaign on MCM), on No Campa1gning Day, and handed them over to the secunty and pohce· however the leaflets reappeared as a leaflet in the messes· and were not confiscated Again, on the day of the election the same leaflet was distnbuted openly. SFI-AISF aC;tJvists were also seen d1stributrng another leaflet m1sleadrngly attnbuted to ·" 5 students who sat on Indefinite Hunger Strike' (though many of the Hunger Stnkers had no knowledge of tt}. w1thout subm!ltmg a copy to the EC as the Code ofConduct stipulates. It is disturbing that a g1rl student who rs a complatnant tn a sexual harassment case against a student leader of the SFI was dtsentranch1sed for distnbut1ng a leaflet w1thout submttting a copy to the EC -but those of the YFE/ABVP and SFI-AISF who did so on the day ofthe election were not penalised in any way Such events tend to lower the level of political pract1ce. and do not bode well for JNU's democracy. In the Tenth Anniversary year of former JNUSU President Comrade Chandrashekhar's martyrdom, 1t IS a fitttng tribute that AISA has won the Vice-President and General Secretary posts 1n the JNUSU polls 2007 will mark a full decade of the martyrdom of former JNUSU President Comrade Chandrashekhar. shot dead in Siwan by a mafia don-turned MP. As JNU's tribute to Comrade Chandrashekhar and to the student movement following his murder, the JNUSU will strive that JNU should set up an Archive of People's Movements -with documentation, films, photographs and footage, fact-findtng reports. etc. Contributions to this Archive can be sought from Citizens's groups, filmmakers. movemental groups, journalists from all over the Country, and JNU students will also be encouraged to make efforts to doocumenUstudy people's struggles Further, 2007 is also the Birth Centenary Year of Shaheed-o-Azam Bhagat Singh The JNUSU should explore the setting up of a Library on the lines of the PC Joshi Archives, providing extensive documentation and translations Into many national and international languages of the writings of the Indian revolutionaries of the freedom struggle. Ef-forts must also be to explore ways to Include such writings in the syllabi of JNU's academiC programmes. .
AISA thanks the JNU student commumty tor strengthentng the democratic process wtth tts enthusiastic part'Cipahon in the elections We also thank the entire JNU EC ror the efficient, smooth and able way in which tl conducted the entire Election Process .
sd/-Rajesh Ranjan. VP, AISA, JNU sdf. Alankar, Jt Secy., AISA, JNU .
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