PaRCha - JNU - AISA material - 2008 ID-21513
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Unite For Correctly Implementing OBC Reservation In JNU And Resolving All The Existing Anomalies In JNU 2008 Admissions!! Oppose Attempts To Trivialise Both JNUSU And The Task Of Implementing OBC Reservations In JNU Through Irresponsible Flip-Flops!! .
In the past week SFI has engaged in an unmitigated, vitriolic campaign to vilify JNUSU. This campaign has culminated in a show of one-upmanship as the councillors from their organisation have unilaterally launched an indefinite hunger strike. SFI has its right to protest, but they do not have the right to concoct facts, spread rumours and belittle JNUSU on shamelessly self-contradictory grounds. After shouting themselves hoarse and blaming JNUSU Office bearers for a massive seat-cut, arguing that offer should be the basis of seat increase, they have suddenly taken the position that joining should be the basis! Let us examine the grounds on which they have erected this edifice of lies. .
Over the last week, SFI has gone overboard in framing its motivated story of an imaginary seat cut. Using incomparable and false data, they created a frenzy in campus, arguing there had been a massive seat cut. Secondly, they argued that instead of intake of 2006, the seats offered in 2007 should be taken as the basis of calculating seat increase and reservation. This is a point that they have repeated in every forum and platform of debate from the JNUSU Council meeting to posters and pamphlets. JNUSU Office-bearers patiently countered this campaign of vilification based on wrong numbers and legally untenable criterion, but to no avail. In the council meeting, the councillors from SFI gave no legal or logical provisions for implementing reservation, stating instead that they did not care about laws. They remained adamant on their illogical position on offer as the basis of computation and the existence of what they continue to peddle as massive seat cut. .
Now that SFI has launched an agitation, their arguments have assumed a whole new trajectory. In yesterdays pamphlet they have gone back on their position of computing reservation and seat increase on offer. In fact, they are totally silent about it! Now, their position is that reservation and seat increase should be computed on joining instead. By now, SFI has tied itself into the knots of its own argument; it has changed its position so often that it can have no credibility. .
For all the gymnastics its arguments have undergone, SFI is still peddling the bogey of an imagined seat cut. But now, by their own logic of taking joining of 2007 as the basis, there is a shortfall of 163 seats from last years offer. Will SFI answer: By their earlier definition is this shortfall of 163 seats NOT a seat cut? SFIs present change of position indicates that they could not sustain their arguments in the face of logic articulated by JNUSU. Either SFI accepts that they have been peddling a false logic only to vilify JNUSU, or they should accept that they are now also arguing for a seat cut! SFIs continual retraction and change of statements marks their criminal non-seriousness towards the issue of reservation. It also indicates how they hold the student community in such little esteem, believing that they can be confused and deflected by any smokescreen of fictitious numbers. In acting in this unilateral and irrational manner, SFI has worked to undermine the consistency, responsibility and seriousness of JNUSU as an institution only so as to achieve their own desperate strategies. .
JNUSU holds that the serious and socially sensitive issue like reservation cannot be trivialized in this manner. Nor can the intelligence and social sensitivity of the students of JNU be imposed upon in this manner. All along SFI has had nothing to say about the actual irregularities of the implementation of reservation. They have remained silent while JNUSU has been vigilantly fighting and correcting irregularities at every stage: be it the correct calculation of reserved seats, relaxation of marks for OBC students for viva qualification, additional lists for viva, correct implementation of reservation for PH students. Other visible problems remain in this years admission pertaining to non-fulfilment of seats in BA 1 inspite of the continuance of the offer method, no waiting list in Urdu MA reflecting unjustified evaluations by the centre, and defining the correct relaxation of marks for OBC candidates. It is urgent that these concrete issues must be resolved and not lost under any false debate. .
It is in this context that an emergency council meeting has been convened tonight (8.8.08) at 9.30 pm to evolve a comprehensive course of struggle on all persisting issues. We appeal to the student community to reject all false propaganda and rally with JNUSU for a genuine struggle for ensuring the actual challenging task of correctly implementing OBC reservation and seat increase in JNU. It is imperative that we maintain and strengthen the socially sensitive character of this campus and ensure that reservation is properly implemented and the provisions of social justice are upheld. .
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PaRCha - JNU - AISA material - 2008 ID-21513
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Unite For Correctly Implementing OBC Reservation In JNU And Resolving All The Existing Anomalies In JNU 2008 Admissions!! Oppose Attempts To Trivialise Both JNUSU And The Task Of Implementing OBC Reservations In JNU Through Irresponsible Flip-Flops!! .
In the past week SFI has engaged in an unmitigated, vitriolic campaign to vilify JNUSU. This campaign has culminated in a show of one-upmanship as the councillors from their organisation have unilaterally launched an indefinite hunger strike. SFI has its right to protest, but they do not have the right to concoct facts, spread rumours and belittle JNUSU on shamelessly self-contradictory grounds. After shouting themselves hoarse and blaming JNUSU Office bearers for a massive seat-cut, arguing that offer should be the basis of seat increase, they have suddenly taken the position that joining should be the basis! Let us examine the grounds on which they have erected this edifice of lies. .
Over the last week, SFI has gone overboard in framing its motivated story of an imaginary seat cut. Using incomparable and false data, they created a frenzy in campus, arguing there had been a massive seat cut. Secondly, they argued that instead of intake of 2006, the seats offered in 2007 should be taken as the basis of calculating seat increase and reservation. This is a point that they have repeated in every forum and platform of debate from the JNUSU Council meeting to posters and pamphlets. JNUSU Office-bearers patiently countered this campaign of vilification based on wrong numbers and legally untenable criterion, but to no avail. In the council meeting, the councillors from SFI gave no legal or logical provisions for implementing reservation, stating instead that they did not care about laws. They remained adamant on their illogical position on offer as the basis of computation and the existence of what they continue to peddle as massive seat cut. .
Now that SFI has launched an agitation, their arguments have assumed a whole new trajectory. In yesterdays pamphlet they have gone back on their position of computing reservation and seat increase on offer. In fact, they are totally silent about it! Now, their position is that reservation and seat increase should be computed on joining instead. By now, SFI has tied itself into the knots of its own argument; it has changed its position so often that it can have no credibility. .
For all the gymnastics its arguments have undergone, SFI is still peddling the bogey of an imagined seat cut. But now, by their own logic of taking joining of 2007 as the basis, there is a shortfall of 163 seats from last years offer. Will SFI answer: By their earlier definition is this shortfall of 163 seats NOT a seat cut? SFIs present change of position indicates that they could not sustain their arguments in the face of logic articulated by JNUSU. Either SFI accepts that they have been peddling a false logic only to vilify JNUSU, or they should accept that they are now also arguing for a seat cut! SFIs continual retraction and change of statements marks their criminal non-seriousness towards the issue of reservation. It also indicates how they hold the student community in such little esteem, believing that they can be confused and deflected by any smokescreen of fictitious numbers. In acting in this unilateral and irrational manner, SFI has worked to undermine the consistency, responsibility and seriousness of JNUSU as an institution only so as to achieve their own desperate strategies. .
JNUSU holds that the serious and socially sensitive issue like reservation cannot be trivialized in this manner. Nor can the intelligence and social sensitivity of the students of JNU be imposed upon in this manner. All along SFI has had nothing to say about the actual irregularities of the implementation of reservation. They have remained silent while JNUSU has been vigilantly fighting and correcting irregularities at every stage: be it the correct calculation of reserved seats, relaxation of marks for OBC students for viva qualification, additional lists for viva, correct implementation of reservation for PH students. Other visible problems remain in this years admission pertaining to non-fulfilment of seats in BA 1 inspite of the continuance of the offer method, no waiting list in Urdu MA reflecting unjustified evaluations by the centre, and defining the correct relaxation of marks for OBC candidates. It is urgent that these concrete issues must be resolved and not lost under any false debate. .
It is in this context that an emergency council meeting has been convened tonight (8.8.08) at 9.30 pm to evolve a comprehensive course of struggle on all persisting issues. We appeal to the student community to reject all false propaganda and rally with JNUSU for a genuine struggle for ensuring the actual challenging task of correctly implementing OBC reservation and seat increase in JNU. It is imperative that we maintain and strengthen the socially sensitive character of this campus and ensure that reservation is properly implemented and the provisions of social justice are upheld. .
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