PaRCha - JNU - AISA - 2006 ID-3002

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re-condition for granting registration, SFI's JNUSU leaders, Other Initiatives ofAISA-Jed JNUSU:.

of debate on the Nuke Deal; to keep up the pretence of Inhistoryas havingsupportedthe rapists and ~etagain, dissociated from the struggle toensureregistration Struggle to Increase Financial Assistance for Needy.

opposition while letting the De~I sta~ alive; and t~ keep the .

killers of Tapasl Malik, the killers at UPA-CPI(M) alliance (and continued Implementation ofanti-for all students. For a good 5 days till the last date of Students .

Nandigram; itwould have argued infavourof people policies like SEZs etc...) undisturbed! registration, the JNUSU President refused even to meet .

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and discuss the plan of action. Common students, Ever since AI SA's presence in the JNUSU leadership, corporate land grab and it woud even have , If it were not for AISA's presence in JNUSU, abandoned bythe midway through the struggle, were forced they have made financial assistance for needy students a remained silent on the Khammam firing. the Unfon would have "dissociated" from the to pay the fines-collected through solidarity fund from the central issue. In 2004-05, the MCM was increased for B.A. .

students and extended to M.Phil students, and after a.

It was AISA office bearers of JNUSU who organised a struggle for workers' rights and against campus. SFI then held a mock-show of 'indefinite hunger protest-demo against the Nandigram firing; this was rustications and crackdown; would have strike' that lasted less than 10 hours, and in a got-up sustained agitation in 2005, the Administration was forced .

to accept a significant increase in the MCM scholarship.

boycotted by SFI's JNUSU leaders. The JNUSU General shamefully supported the demand for game with the Administration, got the punishments against Secretary visited SingurIn December 2006, following Tapasi Proctorial Enquiry and punishment for its JNUSU office bearers revoked, making explicit their from Rs. 600 to Rs 1000 for BN MA, and Rs. 1500 for Malik's rape and murder by CPI(M} leaders. In the case of students for participating in a protest led by hitherto clandestine nexus with the Administration. m.Phii./PhD. students. After the June-July '07 agitation, .

administration agreed to increase the MCM amount of BNthe Khammam firing also, it was the AISA office bearers in the JNUSU itself; and would have created an JNUSU office bearers from AISA held a workshop to.

JNUSU alone who called for a Protest Demo. Even when MA students to Rs. 1500 and the income cap for MCM to .

hierarchy between common students and discuss implementation of workers' rights and minimum.

poorpeasants under the banner of CPI(M} were killed, the Rs. 1 lakh.

JNUSU office bearers. wages in JNU -and SFI representatives in JNUSU boycotted.

JNUSU President and SFI's JNUSU representatives' silence Rs. 3000 and Rs. 5000 Scholarships forM Phil/ Ph.D. spoke louder than words! In November 2006, JNUSU Office Bearers from AISA this workshop. .

AISA office bearers in JNUSU alone made a forceful .

But for the presence and leadership of AISA, initiated a campaign againstviolation of minimum wages. SFI's JNUSU leaders also totally dissociated from case for an early cut-off date for Rs. 3000-Rs. 5000 JNUSU would havefailed to speak outagainst and the movement soon involved all democratic sections of the Comn::aittee on workers' rights thatwas formed after .

fellowship for research scholars so as to ensure maximum.

students and teachers.A community kitchen was organised the 12-day hunger strike. This Committee had its first.

state terror in Kashmir and the North East; benefit to senior research scholars; and in the 12 Julyfor workers retrenched by the contractors. meeting on 28 S~ptember 2007: the JNUSU General.

against discriminatory 'codes' imposed on Agreement. the University agreed to pursue the demand to .

Secretary was the only representative of JNUSU to.

North East students by Delhi Police; against SFI's JNUSU leadership initially boycotted the protests, advance the date to July 2005. However, the Administration the assault on civil liberties by the BJP Govt repeatedly withdrew from the struggle and sided with attend the meetir·g -JNUSU President and other SFI has been completely reluctant to concretely artocate funds, in Chhattisgarh. Administration. As the struggle gained momentum, they reprcsent.:1tives boycotted, as usual. preferring instead to divert money to uncalled for maintained a grudging token presence. SFI's top leaders Determined Campaign Against Corporate "beautification" drives in the campus. JNUSU office bearers.

It was JNUSU office bearers from AJSA who organised a .

as well as its JNUSU leadership all participated in the gherao from AJSA took the initiative ofmobilising a massive Protest.

protest meeting against the spate of 'disappearances' in Funding on Campus versus Lip Service Demo at the UGC to demand implementation. Ensuring.

Kashmir at the hands of the security forces. SFI's JNUSU of February 19 and made no effort to stop it. This gherao A recent drive towards corporate funding was seen in SAA..

was made the pretext for a crackdown, and immediately Rs. 3000 and Rs. 5000 Scholarships for M Phil/ Ph.D..

representatives were conspicuous by their absence and in the effort to approach and woo TATA to fund a digital .

silence. While AJSA demanded scrapping of the draconian the SFI leadership in JNUSU "disassociated" archive. JNUSU took a formal position against corporate from July 2005 and pro-studentratherthan wasteful use the.mselves from the movement and even demanded a of funds remains a critical issue ofstruggle.AFSPA, SFI's parent party CPI(M) imposes AFSPA in Proctorial Enquiry to punish the 9 suspended students. funding in JNU. And yet, when JNUSU office bearers from .

Tripura. AISA held a Public Meeting against corporate funding Highlighted the lacunae in implementation of .

AISAleaders in JNUSU ensured the UGBM ofMarch 8 which .

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When Delhi Police issued a booklet advising a food code on campus it was boycotted by the SFI representatives Raj iv Gandhi Fellowship.

massively defeated this game-plan, and voted in favour of .

for North East students and a dress code for North East In JNUSU. Notjust this, leading SFI members from the AJS~s JNUSU office bearers consistently agitated for .

AIS~s resolution that declared February 19 a "collective .

girls, it was the JNUSU General Secretary alone who SAA went a step ahead to issue posters abusing the speedy disbursal of Rajiv Gandhi fellowship in the face of.

JNUSU-Ied protest" and opposed Proctorial witch-hunting. Public Meeting with the clear purpose of deriding.

protested strongly against this racist and sexist text While 492 students supported this AISA resolution, SFI's s position and bolstering the pro-corporate inordinate delay. They alone emphasised that ALL SC/ST .

JNUSU'research scholars receive this fellowship, and collected.

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In opposition to Salwa Judum and the arrest of noted support of the Proctorial enquiry garnered a mere 190 votes. .

social activist Binayak Sen, the AISA counct11ors from SSS forces in the SAA. the names of all applicants absent from the Jist. .

The Administration went ahead with the Proctorial . single-handedly organized protest and solidarity meetings Defence of Reservations and Rights of SC/STs Administrati~n was forced to send a fresh petition to UGC .

enquiry, rusticating 8 students and imposing fines on three .

with human rights activists on campus. and OBCs and ensure that these studentswere included in lheselection .

JNUSU office bearers. However, after 20 days of struggle .

Solidarity with Democracy Movements Made including 12-days indefinite hunger strike, t.heAdministration Last year, it was the AISA who rose up to the challenge list. Possible by AISA Leadership in JNUSU was forced to sign an Agreement on 12 July; repeal the ofYFE and met this offensive head-on through a 34-day pro-Recognition of Alimiat Fazeelat Madarsa JNUSU office bearers from AISA held a Burma Solidarity rustications. accept the JNUSU Charter of Demands, and reservation hunger strike, challenging YFE's frenzy every certificates in JNU admissions to B.A. 1ST year constitute a Committeewith representatives from all sections inch of the way. When YFE brought out a casteist leaflet AISA's JNUSU Office bearers conducted a 1600-strong.

student-youth meeting in February to support lhe movement agaL1st dictatorship. After the recent brutal crackdown on ofthe JNU community including students to ensure workers· calling dalit students "lesser mortals", it was AISA's JNUSU signature campaign, held a series of public meetjngs, and .

the monks' movement tor democracy in Burma, only JNUSU rights on campus. leadership alone which held a Protest March, which was submitted a memorandum to Academic Council members, .

Instead of working to Implement the 12 July boycotted by the SFI and its representatives in JNUSU Deans and Chairpersons. After this campaign, the.

General Secretary issued a statement of protest -the JNUSU President was silent SFI issued a token "solidarity" Agreement, the SFI section of JNUSU worked to claim The AISA leadership in JNUSU articulated a strong Equivalence Committee of JNU sought inputs from other .

with Burma's resistance but avoided condemning UPA's special privileges for the JNUSU office bearers as position in the April 10 AC meeting, in favour of Universities which recognise Madarsa degrees. In the July .

opposed to the rusticated students. It was only AISA's 12Agreement, theAdministration agreed to vigorously work.

military support for the killer Burmese junta!! implementation of 27% reservation and 54% seat increase .

leaders within JNUSU who resisted the punishments, without any staggering in JNU. In the meeting called by th~ towards recognizing Madarsa degrees. JNUSU also.

Struggle to Scrap Nuke Deal versus the Ploy stood by the rusticated students and refused to support SSS Dean, tt was onlytheAISAcouncillor from SSS, Pallavt collected several relevant documents from other centralto Save It by uPausing" It .

any hierarchical treatment favouring JNUSU loaders Deka who was present and asserted the above position. I~ universities like Jamia and SHU which already recognise AISA's JNUSU leadership firmly mobilised students to protest against the Supreme Court stay on OBC quota. tt Madarsa degrees and made them available to JNU.

over common students..

demand scrapping of the Nuke Deal which is a deal of s JNUSU office bearers who called for a Protest administration to expedite the action of the Equivalence.

According to the Agreement, the punishments would was AISA'.

shamefulservility to US imperialism. They held that the Deal March on campus and at Parliament Street. Implementation Committee of JNU looking into the matter..

be reconsidered ~ased on letters of appeal. The JNUSUmustbe voted (not just debated) in Indian Parliament, .

President and Joint Secretary from SFI refused to submit of 27% reservation remains a key question and the Empowerment and Democratisation of GSCASH.

according to the Indian Constitution's principle thatexecutive machinations of YFE to derail it will be robustly defeated..

letters ofappeal, claiming that only rusticated students were and Equal Opportunity Office.

must be subservient to legislature. The SF! and its JNUSU 'not the JNUSU office-bearers AISAand its JNUSU leadership have stood in solidarity .

leadership instead openly argued the spurious logic that asked to submit an appeal, In the AC meeting of 23 November, JNUSU office who had been fined. The JNUSU General Secretary refused with AIIMS doctors against the victimization of dalits and international treaties could notbe voted upon in Parliament! to be part of this attempt to create an unacceptable violation of Constitutional SC/ST quotas inAllMS. They alone bearers 'from AISA submitted a detailed note demanding The SFI played the game ofdemanding a mere "pause", so hierarchy between JNUSU leaders and common issued a statement of protest against the brutal lynching of the democratization of Equal Opportunity Office to deliver .

asto"pause"theexposureottheUPAGovt'santi-national, justice in cases ofcaste abuse/ discrimination. and to include.

students. When rustications were replaced with fines as a a dalit college student, Chakrasen by upper caste goons in .

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