PaRCha - JNU - All Organisations - 2004 ID-43174
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STUDENTS' FEDERATION OF INDIA .
ALL INDIA STUDENTS' FEDERATION .
An appeal to the Students of SIS .
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Friends, .
The scenario in which the JNUSU Election-2004 Is being held isquite significant. Globally, even as the unilateral occupation of .
Iraq by US-fed conglomeration of imperialist forces is continuing, there have been massive protests across the globe against the war .
and also against the imperialist economic agenda. The Wortd Social Forum at Mumbai only manifested the enormity of the resistance .
to the imperialist hegemony. At the national level, we have witnessed the historic defeat of the Hindutva forces led by RSS-BJP in both .
national and assembly elections. The BJP, while still nursing its wounds after the heavy political blow given them by the common .
.
people who were sick and tired of its politics of communal hatred, was again given a sharp slap in the face in the Maharashtra .
assembly elections. Following its complete rout in the elections the Sangh Giroh has launched a very aggressive campaign to reassert .
its politics of Hindutva. The re-election of Advani as the BJP Chief is a clear indication of the fact that the BJP is shedding its pretence .
of 'moderate' politics and has reverted to hardcore Hindutva. In our own campus the RSS has been making fresh attempts to vitiate the .
campus atmosphere on communal lines. He has started the new tenure with are-terming of BJP's Fascist agenda, now describing it as .
'Bharatiyata'. It is clear to everyone that Fascism by any other name is equally dangerous. We feel that the grave threat posed by this .
.
brand of politics of hatred, is far from over. It must be noted that In our campus also the RSS student outfit Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) has again regrouped, posing threat to the secular fabric of the university. The attempt of the ABVP to disrupt the Film Show on 14th August and the Public Meeting on 17th August has again exposed their totally communal and lumpen character. .
It is extremely unfortunate that the UPA Government, in the few months that it has been in power is already showing signs of betraying the mandate against nee-liberal policies. Despite the promises made in the CMP, the Government has refused to allocate sufficient funds for the Employment Guarantee Scheme or universalisation of the PDS, or to redress the acute agrarian crisis in the country. Rather the thrust of the Government has been to sell-off profit making PSUs like the NTPC and to open up profitable sectors to higher FDI. The Left isthe only force in the country, which is actively opposing all the anti-people policies of the Government .
even when supporting the Government from the outside to keep the communal and fascist RSS-BJP out of power. The Left continues to act as a formidable corrective force, keeping in mind the wishes and aspirations of workers,fanners, students and the dispossessed of this country. The introduction of education cess, the debate on reservation in the private sector, the objection to overt privatisation and raisingcaps on Foreign Direct Investment and disinvestments of profitable public sector enterprises are cases in point. In the short period since the new government assumed power, the Left has also ensured steps towards the detoxification of academic and cultural Institutions, which had been filled with RSS elements during the NDA rule. But the Congress is yet to pronounce without ambiguity its stand on the detoxifying educational institutions and ensuring more funds to higher education. In the coming days the Left has to ensure that the Government addresses the issues of the people and keep the BJP out of power. .
JNUSU elections are eagerly looked up to as a model election, because we discuss and respond to national as we\1 as .
international political developments while maintaining a balance on campus-related issues also. While it has been our endeavour to .
keep aloft this tradition, the SFI-AISF led JNUSU and the SIS Council were equally committed to the betterment of student life on all main areas like academics, financial assistance, employment, general welfare, and infrastructure. We have achieved this despite last .
year being very difficult for any such struggle, because of the fragmented nature of JNUSU and the SIS Council. In the SIS Council, we faced problems, because one Councillor had been from AISA and another from NSUI. The AISA councillor, was completely absent .
from any of the council activities and struggles. The NSUI councillor, has been absent in all the major student struggles, simply re-surfacing this semester to conduct joy trips. .
Over the last six years of the BJP rule, the SFI-AISF in this campus has been consistently opposing the policies of .
p~va~sa~on and communalisation of the NDA Government. It was the SFI-AISF led Unions since 1997, which struggled to ensure that pnvatisation be reversed and more hostels are built in our University at a time when the Government was massively cutting grants for education. It is because of the successful struggles of the students of this campus under the leadership of the SFI-AISF that this year the Hostel problem in our University has been solved with the allotment of the Lohit-Chandrabhaga Hostels. Again it was the SFf..AJSF led Union which In 2002 successfully resisted the attempts to saffronise our University through the X Plan Proposals. In the last one year~~ SFI-AISF led Union has carried forward the struggle against the policies of privatization and ensured that the following facilities perta1nmg to the Library are made available to the students: The timing of the TB section and Dholpur House in the Library has been extended..
.
Funds have been sanctioned for setting up the Book Bank. .
J-Stor Journal facility has been installed. .
More computers have been installed for visually impaired students. .
Renovation of the Dholpur House has been ensured. .
.
PaRCha - JNU - All Organisations - 2004 ID-43174
.
,..... .
.: :· :· :!..
:; 4.J ~· ; ... ' '· .
.
~: .
;.· , t'_·. '.
:.u.
,, .
/ ·' .
~--...... .
... ~ .
" .
STUDENTS' FEDERATION OF INDIA .
ALL INDIA STUDENTS' FEDERATION .
An appeal to the Students of SIS .
.
Friends, .
The scenario in which the JNUSU Election-2004 Is being held isquite significant. Globally, even as the unilateral occupation of .
Iraq by US-fed conglomeration of imperialist forces is continuing, there have been massive protests across the globe against the war .
and also against the imperialist economic agenda. The Wortd Social Forum at Mumbai only manifested the enormity of the resistance .
to the imperialist hegemony. At the national level, we have witnessed the historic defeat of the Hindutva forces led by RSS-BJP in both .
national and assembly elections. The BJP, while still nursing its wounds after the heavy political blow given them by the common .
.
people who were sick and tired of its politics of communal hatred, was again given a sharp slap in the face in the Maharashtra .
assembly elections. Following its complete rout in the elections the Sangh Giroh has launched a very aggressive campaign to reassert .
its politics of Hindutva. The re-election of Advani as the BJP Chief is a clear indication of the fact that the BJP is shedding its pretence .
of 'moderate' politics and has reverted to hardcore Hindutva. In our own campus the RSS has been making fresh attempts to vitiate the .
campus atmosphere on communal lines. He has started the new tenure with are-terming of BJP's Fascist agenda, now describing it as .
'Bharatiyata'. It is clear to everyone that Fascism by any other name is equally dangerous. We feel that the grave threat posed by this .
.
brand of politics of hatred, is far from over. It must be noted that In our campus also the RSS student outfit Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) has again regrouped, posing threat to the secular fabric of the university. The attempt of the ABVP to disrupt the Film Show on 14th August and the Public Meeting on 17th August has again exposed their totally communal and lumpen character. .
It is extremely unfortunate that the UPA Government, in the few months that it has been in power is already showing signs of betraying the mandate against nee-liberal policies. Despite the promises made in the CMP, the Government has refused to allocate sufficient funds for the Employment Guarantee Scheme or universalisation of the PDS, or to redress the acute agrarian crisis in the country. Rather the thrust of the Government has been to sell-off profit making PSUs like the NTPC and to open up profitable sectors to higher FDI. The Left isthe only force in the country, which is actively opposing all the anti-people policies of the Government .
even when supporting the Government from the outside to keep the communal and fascist RSS-BJP out of power. The Left continues to act as a formidable corrective force, keeping in mind the wishes and aspirations of workers,fanners, students and the dispossessed of this country. The introduction of education cess, the debate on reservation in the private sector, the objection to overt privatisation and raisingcaps on Foreign Direct Investment and disinvestments of profitable public sector enterprises are cases in point. In the short period since the new government assumed power, the Left has also ensured steps towards the detoxification of academic and cultural Institutions, which had been filled with RSS elements during the NDA rule. But the Congress is yet to pronounce without ambiguity its stand on the detoxifying educational institutions and ensuring more funds to higher education. In the coming days the Left has to ensure that the Government addresses the issues of the people and keep the BJP out of power. .
JNUSU elections are eagerly looked up to as a model election, because we discuss and respond to national as we\1 as .
international political developments while maintaining a balance on campus-related issues also. While it has been our endeavour to .
keep aloft this tradition, the SFI-AISF led JNUSU and the SIS Council were equally committed to the betterment of student life on all main areas like academics, financial assistance, employment, general welfare, and infrastructure. We have achieved this despite last .
year being very difficult for any such struggle, because of the fragmented nature of JNUSU and the SIS Council. In the SIS Council, we faced problems, because one Councillor had been from AISA and another from NSUI. The AISA councillor, was completely absent .
from any of the council activities and struggles. The NSUI councillor, has been absent in all the major student struggles, simply re-surfacing this semester to conduct joy trips. .
Over the last six years of the BJP rule, the SFI-AISF in this campus has been consistently opposing the policies of .
p~va~sa~on and communalisation of the NDA Government. It was the SFI-AISF led Unions since 1997, which struggled to ensure that pnvatisation be reversed and more hostels are built in our University at a time when the Government was massively cutting grants for education. It is because of the successful struggles of the students of this campus under the leadership of the SFI-AISF that this year the Hostel problem in our University has been solved with the allotment of the Lohit-Chandrabhaga Hostels. Again it was the SFf..AJSF led Union which In 2002 successfully resisted the attempts to saffronise our University through the X Plan Proposals. In the last one year~~ SFI-AISF led Union has carried forward the struggle against the policies of privatization and ensured that the following facilities perta1nmg to the Library are made available to the students: The timing of the TB section and Dholpur House in the Library has been extended..
.
Funds have been sanctioned for setting up the Book Bank. .
J-Stor Journal facility has been installed. .
More computers have been installed for visually impaired students. .
Renovation of the Dholpur House has been ensured. .
.