PaRCha - JNU - AISA material - 2012 ID-30324
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In their total abstinence from the struggle for the correct implementation of OBC reservations and against the illegal cut-off criterion imposed by the JNU Administration, and .
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By their silence on the recent moves of the government to further commercialize and privatize education. Like its parent party CPI(M), which has been driven out of power in West Bengal and Kerala as a result of Singur and Nandigram and steady compromises on the issues of the day, SFI too has no moral authority left to talk about any substantial issues of politics and student interests. As a result, most of their time is engaged in vitriolic, personalized slander against AISA .
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and its activists. In fact, far from confronting the right-wing and administrative assaults, it is anti-AISAism which has become the sole plank of SFIs politics. .
DSU, which supports the anarchist-militarist Maoist stream is only interested in empty radical phrase-mongering and mindless targeting of AISA by hook or crook, desperate to prove itself more radical than thou. .
It is indeed interesting, that both these so-called left organistions -SFI and DSU-far from engaging in or enriching any creative democratic politics, are obsessed with anti-AISA-ism in all their stances. Their hostile role against AISA for years on the cut-off struggle for proper implementation of OBC reservation is the one of the most recent examples of their blind anti-AISA obsession. .
Challenges Ahead .
We are right now at a juncture when the elected JNUSU must ensure broader mobilisation against Lyngdoh recommendations and in defenceof campus democracy. For a long time, we have been demanding reduction of weightage of viva marks in JNU admission process, to stall the possibility of discrimination and subjective biases. Also ensuring hostel facilities, enhancement of MCM and other scholarships/fellowships, resisting fee hikes and commercialisation drives -several such struggles lay ahead. .
By resisting attacks, by imagining new futures, and institutionalizing progressive changes, AISA has evolved and articulated a radical and creative vision of politics in JNU. It has played a vanguard role in addressing the burning questions of our time. We need to build a strong, robust resistance 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. .
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PaRCha - JNU - AISA material - 2012 ID-30324
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In their total abstinence from the struggle for the correct implementation of OBC reservations and against the illegal cut-off criterion imposed by the JNU Administration, and .
.
.
By their silence on the recent moves of the government to further commercialize and privatize education. Like its parent party CPI(M), which has been driven out of power in West Bengal and Kerala as a result of Singur and Nandigram and steady compromises on the issues of the day, SFI too has no moral authority left to talk about any substantial issues of politics and student interests. As a result, most of their time is engaged in vitriolic, personalized slander against AISA .
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.
and its activists. In fact, far from confronting the right-wing and administrative assaults, it is anti-AISAism which has become the sole plank of SFIs politics. .
DSU, which supports the anarchist-militarist Maoist stream is only interested in empty radical phrase-mongering and mindless targeting of AISA by hook or crook, desperate to prove itself more radical than thou. .
It is indeed interesting, that both these so-called left organistions -SFI and DSU-far from engaging in or enriching any creative democratic politics, are obsessed with anti-AISA-ism in all their stances. Their hostile role against AISA for years on the cut-off struggle for proper implementation of OBC reservation is the one of the most recent examples of their blind anti-AISA obsession. .
Challenges Ahead .
We are right now at a juncture when the elected JNUSU must ensure broader mobilisation against Lyngdoh recommendations and in defenceof campus democracy. For a long time, we have been demanding reduction of weightage of viva marks in JNU admission process, to stall the possibility of discrimination and subjective biases. Also ensuring hostel facilities, enhancement of MCM and other scholarships/fellowships, resisting fee hikes and commercialisation drives -several such struggles lay ahead. .
By resisting attacks, by imagining new futures, and institutionalizing progressive changes, AISA has evolved and articulated a radical and creative vision of politics in JNU. It has played a vanguard role in addressing the burning questions of our time. We need to build a strong, robust resistance 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. .
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