PaRCha - JNU - AISA material - 2012 ID-31964
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YFE was born in the wake of OBC reservations with the single point agenda to spread casteist frenzy against social justice. Subsequently, with the implementation of OBC reservation, most of its cadres have returned to their original home of ABVP. But given its deeply reactionary character, YFE continues to invent one devious means or the other to scuttle EVERY democratic aspiration and institution of the JNU student community, be it UGBM or JNUSU election. .
The NSUI generally remains silent and absent, occasionally arousing itself to welcome Congress leaders or defend the UPA Governments assault on lives and livelihoods. .
On this campus and beyond, SFI has become a spokesperson for the politics of displacement and corporatization. They stood by the administration in crackdowns on students, ran dubious campaigns against proper implementation of OBC reservation and reduced politics to one of slander and personalized attacks. .
We have seen this .
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When they never worked to restore the deprivation points in JNUs admission, which stood scrapped during 1983-93, despite the fact that it was SFI which led JNUSUs for most of the terms during this period .
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When they championed the opening of the Nestle outlet in this campus in 2004-05 and defended it till the last, .
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When they betrayed the struggle for minimum wages in 2006-07 by demanding punitive action on protesting students and striking workers, .
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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. .
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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 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 .
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PaRCha - JNU - AISA material - 2012 ID-31964
.
YFE was born in the wake of OBC reservations with the single point agenda to spread casteist frenzy against social justice. Subsequently, with the implementation of OBC reservation, most of its cadres have returned to their original home of ABVP. But given its deeply reactionary character, YFE continues to invent one devious means or the other to scuttle EVERY democratic aspiration and institution of the JNU student community, be it UGBM or JNUSU election. .
The NSUI generally remains silent and absent, occasionally arousing itself to welcome Congress leaders or defend the UPA Governments assault on lives and livelihoods. .
On this campus and beyond, SFI has become a spokesperson for the politics of displacement and corporatization. They stood by the administration in crackdowns on students, ran dubious campaigns against proper implementation of OBC reservation and reduced politics to one of slander and personalized attacks. .
We have seen this .
.
When they never worked to restore the deprivation points in JNUs admission, which stood scrapped during 1983-93, despite the fact that it was SFI which led JNUSUs for most of the terms during this period .
.
.
When they championed the opening of the Nestle outlet in this campus in 2004-05 and defended it till the last, .
.
.
When they betrayed the struggle for minimum wages in 2006-07 by demanding punitive action on protesting students and striking workers, .
.
.
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 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 .
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