PaRCha - JNU - AISA chits - 2012 ID-13524
.
Mantar on 27 December 2010, continuing the movement crackdowns on students, ran dubious campaigns against.
until his release. proper implementation of OBC reservation and reduced.
politics to one of slander and personalized attacks..
JNUSU Election and the Struggle Against the.
Lyngdoh Recommendations : We have seen this.
.
Throughout the protracted struggle against Lyngdoh, AISA · When they never worked to restore the deprivation points.
has played a leading role - whether it is mobilizing students, in JNU's admission, which stood scrapped during 1983-.
or public opinion, or funds. This struggle has been fought 93, despite the fact that it was SFI which led JNUSUs.
against all odds. The casteist and anti-democratic Youth for most of the terms during this period.
for Equality (YFE) has openly defied JNU's cherished.
processes of democratic decision-making - they refused to · When they championed the opening of the Nestle outlet.
participate in UGBMs, and instead routinely ran to the JNU in this campus in 2004-05 and defended it till the last,.
administration and to the Supreme Court to scuttle campus.
democracy at every stage. · When they betrayed the struggle for minimum wages.
in 2006-07 by demanding punitive action on protesting.
SFI, which has a national position in favour of students and striking workers,.
the Lyngdoh committee report, boycotted several of.
JSC's initiatives - like the national convention for campus · In their total abstinence from the struggle for the.
democracy and the Night Vigil in 2009. In 2010, SFI led an correct implementation of OBC reservations and.
opportunist bandwagon of forces demanding that we should against the illegal cut-off criterion imposed by the JNU.
defy the SC stay order. Had this position not been defeated Administration, and.
at a UGBM held in February 2010, our ongoing case against.
the Lyngdoh recommendations in the SC would have been · By their silence on the recent moves of the government.
severely weakened. The interim application submitted after to further commercialize and privatize education..
the Feb 2010 UGBM accompanied by the negotiations with.
Amicus Curie became the basis for the 8 Dec 2011 SC order, Like its parent party CPI(M), which has been driven out.
paving the way for the present JNUSU elections. of power in West Bengal and Kerala as a result of Singur.
and Nandigram and steady compromises on the issues of.
And over the past few months, we have also seen the day, SFI too has no moral authority left to talk about.
so called "democratic" and "radical" forces like DSU also any substantial issues of politics and student interests..
undermining the platform of the UGBM by shamefully As a result, most of their time is engaged in vitriolic,.
refusing to accept UGBM mandates. They are desperate personalized slander against AISA and its activists. In.
to create a "more radical that thou" ELECTION AGENDA fact, far from confronting the right-wing and administrative.
for themselves! In the process, DSU simply refused to assaults, it is anti-AISAism which has become the sole.
acknowledge the adverse impact of a long-term suspension plank of SFI's politics..
of JNUSU and elected student representation..
DSU, which supports the anarchist-militarist Maoist.
Other organizations stream is only interested in empty `radical' phrase-.
mongering and mindless targeting of AISA by hook or crook,.
Where AISA has sought to articulate and fight for a desperate to prove itself `more radical than thou'..
radical, pro-student, pro-people vision of politics on this.
campus, there exist other student groups with political It is indeed interesting, that both these so-called.
agendas quite removed from ours. `left' organistions - SFI and DSU- far from engaging.
in or enriching any creative democratic politics, are.
Take the ABVP. Its activists have repeatedly engaged obsessed with anti-AISA-ism in all their stances. Their.
in acts of violence, lumpenism, and venomous communal hostile role against AISA for years on the `cut-off' struggle.
campaigns. They have shown a complete absence of for proper implementation of OBC reservation is the one of.
concern for genuine student issues. They have openly and the most recent examples of their blind anti-AISA obsession..
wholeheartedly supported the Sangh Parivar's pogrom of.
terror, rape, and have tried to turn JNU into a laboratory for Challenges Ahead.
their hate campaigns against Muslims..
We are right now at a juncture when the elected JNUSU.
YFE was born in the wake of OBC reservations with must ensure broader mobilisation against Lyngdoh.
the single point agenda to spread casteist frenzy against recommendations and in defenceof campus democracy. For.
social justice. Subsequently, with the implementation of OBC a long time, we have been demanding reduction of weightage.
reservation, most of its cadres have returned to their original of viva marks in JNU admission process, to stall the possibility.
home of ABVP. But given its deeply reactionary character, of discrimination and subjective biases. Also ensuring hostel.
YFE continues to invent one devious means or the other to facilities, enhancement of MCM and other scholarships/.
scuttle EVERY democratic aspiration and institution of the fellowships, resisting fee hikes and commercialisation drives.
JNU student community, be it UGBM or JNUSU election. - several such struggles lay ahead..
.
The NSUI generally remains silent and absent, By resisting attacks, by imagining new futures, and.
occasionally arousing itself to welcome Congress leaders.
or defend the UPA Government's assault on lives and institutionalizing progressive changes, AISA has evolved.
livelihoods..
and articulated a radical and creative vision of politics in.
On this campus and beyond, SFI has become.
a spokesperson for the politics of displacement and JNU. It has played a vanguard role in addressing the burning.
corporatization. They stood by the administration in.
questions of our time. We need to build a strong, robust resistance.
Akbar, President, AISA, JNU.
to assaults on student rights and campus democracy; we need to.
.
defend the spirit of JNUSU which is committed to struggle for a.
.
secular, democratic, socially-inclusive and gender-sensitive JNU.
.
and society at large..
.
Sandeep Saurav, Gen.Secy., AISA,JNU 4.
..
PaRCha - JNU - AISA chits - 2012 ID-13524
.
Mantar on 27 December 2010, continuing the movement crackdowns on students, ran dubious campaigns against.
until his release. proper implementation of OBC reservation and reduced.
politics to one of slander and personalized attacks..
JNUSU Election and the Struggle Against the.
Lyngdoh Recommendations : We have seen this.
.
Throughout the protracted struggle against Lyngdoh, AISA · When they never worked to restore the deprivation points.
has played a leading role - whether it is mobilizing students, in JNU's admission, which stood scrapped during 1983-.
or public opinion, or funds. This struggle has been fought 93, despite the fact that it was SFI which led JNUSUs.
against all odds. The casteist and anti-democratic Youth for most of the terms during this period.
for Equality (YFE) has openly defied JNU's cherished.
processes of democratic decision-making - they refused to · When they championed the opening of the Nestle outlet.
participate in UGBMs, and instead routinely ran to the JNU in this campus in 2004-05 and defended it till the last,.
administration and to the Supreme Court to scuttle campus.
democracy at every stage. · When they betrayed the struggle for minimum wages.
in 2006-07 by demanding punitive action on protesting.
SFI, which has a national position in favour of students and striking workers,.
the Lyngdoh committee report, boycotted several of.
JSC's initiatives - like the national convention for campus · In their total abstinence from the struggle for the.
democracy and the Night Vigil in 2009. In 2010, SFI led an correct implementation of OBC reservations and.
opportunist bandwagon of forces demanding that we should against the illegal cut-off criterion imposed by the JNU.
defy the SC stay order. Had this position not been defeated Administration, and.
at a UGBM held in February 2010, our ongoing case against.
the Lyngdoh recommendations in the SC would have been · By their silence on the recent moves of the government.
severely weakened. The interim application submitted after to further commercialize and privatize education..
the Feb 2010 UGBM accompanied by the negotiations with.
Amicus Curie became the basis for the 8 Dec 2011 SC order, Like its parent party CPI(M), which has been driven out.
paving the way for the present JNUSU elections. of power in West Bengal and Kerala as a result of Singur.
and Nandigram and steady compromises on the issues of.
And over the past few months, we have also seen the day, SFI too has no moral authority left to talk about.
so called "democratic" and "radical" forces like DSU also any substantial issues of politics and student interests..
undermining the platform of the UGBM by shamefully As a result, most of their time is engaged in vitriolic,.
refusing to accept UGBM mandates. They are desperate personalized slander against AISA and its activists. In.
to create a "more radical that thou" ELECTION AGENDA fact, far from confronting the right-wing and administrative.
for themselves! In the process, DSU simply refused to assaults, it is anti-AISAism which has become the sole.
acknowledge the adverse impact of a long-term suspension plank of SFI's politics..
of JNUSU and elected student representation..
DSU, which supports the anarchist-militarist Maoist.
Other organizations stream is only interested in empty `radical' phrase-.
mongering and mindless targeting of AISA by hook or crook,.
Where AISA has sought to articulate and fight for a desperate to prove itself `more radical than thou'..
radical, pro-student, pro-people vision of politics on this.
campus, there exist other student groups with political It is indeed interesting, that both these so-called.
agendas quite removed from ours. `left' organistions - SFI and DSU- far from engaging.
in or enriching any creative democratic politics, are.
Take the ABVP. Its activists have repeatedly engaged obsessed with anti-AISA-ism in all their stances. Their.
in acts of violence, lumpenism, and venomous communal hostile role against AISA for years on the `cut-off' struggle.
campaigns. They have shown a complete absence of for proper implementation of OBC reservation is the one of.
concern for genuine student issues. They have openly and the most recent examples of their blind anti-AISA obsession..
wholeheartedly supported the Sangh Parivar's pogrom of.
terror, rape, and have tried to turn JNU into a laboratory for Challenges Ahead.
their hate campaigns against Muslims..
We are right now at a juncture when the elected JNUSU.
YFE was born in the wake of OBC reservations with must ensure broader mobilisation against Lyngdoh.
the single point agenda to spread casteist frenzy against recommendations and in defenceof campus democracy. For.
social justice. Subsequently, with the implementation of OBC a long time, we have been demanding reduction of weightage.
reservation, most of its cadres have returned to their original of viva marks in JNU admission process, to stall the possibility.
home of ABVP. But given its deeply reactionary character, of discrimination and subjective biases. Also ensuring hostel.
YFE continues to invent one devious means or the other to facilities, enhancement of MCM and other scholarships/.
scuttle EVERY democratic aspiration and institution of the fellowships, resisting fee hikes and commercialisation drives.
JNU student community, be it UGBM or JNUSU election. - several such struggles lay ahead..
.
The NSUI generally remains silent and absent, By resisting attacks, by imagining new futures, and.
occasionally arousing itself to welcome Congress leaders.
or defend the UPA Government's assault on lives and institutionalizing progressive changes, AISA has evolved.
livelihoods..
and articulated a radical and creative vision of politics in.
On this campus and beyond, SFI has become.
a spokesperson for the politics of displacement and JNU. It has played a vanguard role in addressing the burning.
corporatization. They stood by the administration in.
questions of our time. We need to build a strong, robust resistance.
Akbar, President, AISA, JNU.
to assaults on student rights and campus democracy; we need to.
.
defend the spirit of JNUSU which is committed to struggle for a.
.
secular, democratic, socially-inclusive and gender-sensitive JNU.
.
and society at large..
.
Sandeep Saurav, Gen.Secy., AISA,JNU 4.
..