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corporatization. They stood by the administrati~ .

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crackdowns on students, ran dubious campaigns againS£ " .

Mantar on27 December 201 0, continuing the movement until proper implementation ofOBC reservation and reduced .

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the initiativeoforganizing a massive instant protest at Jantar politics to one ofslander and personalized attacks. .

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When they neverv.orked to restore the deprivation points.

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JNUSU Election and the Struggle Against the in JNU's admission, which stood scrapped during 1983-.

Lyngdoh Recommendations : .

Throughout the protracted struggle against Lyngdoh,AISA j~ 93, despite the fact that it was SFI which led JNUSUs .

has played a leading role-whether it is mobilizing students, for most of the terms during this period .

l or public opinion, or funds. This struggle has been fought When they championed the opening ofthe Nestle outlet .

in this campus in 2004-05 and defended it till the last,.

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against all odds. The casteist and anti-democratic Youth for When they betrayed the struggle for minimum wages in .

Equality (YFE) has openly defied JNU'scherished processes 2006-07 by demanding punitive action on protesting.

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ofdemocratic decision-making-they refused to participate .

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in UGBMs, and instead routinely ran to the JNU students and striking workers, .

administration and to the Supreme Court to scuttlecampus In theirtotal abstinence from the struggle for the correct r.

~democracy at every stage. implementation of OBC reservations and against the .

SFI, which has a national position in favour of the illegal cut-off criterion imposed by the JNU .

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Lyngdoh committee report, boycotted several of JSC's By their silence on the recent moves of the government ) .

Administration, and l democracy and the Night Vigil in 2009. In 2010, SFlied an dinitiatives -like the national convention for campus to further commercialize and privatize education..

d defy the SC stay order. Had this position not been defeatedopportunist band'Nagon of forces demanding that we should Like its p~uent party CPI(M), which has been driven out .

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of power in West Bengal and Kerala as a result of Singur .

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at a UGBM held in February 2010, our ongoing case against and Nandigram and steady compromises on the issues of the Lyngdoh recommendations in the SC would have been the day, SFI too has no moral authorityleftto talkabout 0 .

severely weakened. The interim application submitted after the Feb 2010 UGBM accompanied by the negotiations with As a result, most of their time is engaged in vitriolic, Amicus Curie became the basis for the 8 Dec 2011 SC order, any substantial issues ofpolitics and studentInterests. -a-.UI-):I paving the way for the present JNUSU elections. personalized slander againstAISA and Its actJvists.ln ;:n.p .

And over the past few months, we have also seen so fact, far from confronting the right-wing and administrative .

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assaults, Itis anti-AISAism which has become the sole called udemocratic" and uradical forces like DSU also plank ofSFI's politics. !4.1.

undermming the platform ofthe UGBM by shamefully refusing .

to accept UGBM mandates. They are desperate to create a DSU, which supports the anarchist-militarist Maoist pu-e ·more radical that thoulJ ELECTION AGENDA for themselves! .

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In the process, DSU simply refused to acknowledge the stream is only interested in empty 'radical' phrase-mongering .

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and mindless targeting ofAISA by hook orcrook, desperate adverse impact of a long-term suspension of JNUSU and to prove itself'more radical than thou'. J?l{l po-e .

elected student representation. It is indeed interesting, that both these so-called .

toron Where AISA has sought to articulate and fight for a 'left' organistions -SFI and DSU-farfrom enga~gin '~.

Other organizations or enriching any creative democratic politics, are 'l{l UJ campus, there exist other student groups with politicalradical, pro-student, pro-people vision of politics on this obsessed with anti-AISA-ism in all theirstao....es. Their .

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hostile role against AISA for years on the 'cL:,....f' stn.·... -:;~ .

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f ( agendas quite removed from ours. for proper implementation of OBC reservr'tion is the one of pUV Take theABVP. Its activists have repeatedly engaged in the most recent examples oftheir blind anti-AISA obsession. .

2 J~q acts of violence, lumpenism, and venomous communal Challenges Ahead ~~Old.

h. We are right now at a juncture when the elected JNUSU .

must ensure broader mobilisation against Lvnadoh.

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campaigns. They haveshown acomplete absence ofconcern .

for genuine student issues. They have openly and .

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terror, rape, and have tried to tum JNU into a laboratory for long time, we have been demanding reduction of we!ghtage.

th wholeheartedly supported the Sangh Parivars pogrom of recommendations and in defenceof campus democracy. For a l{ll"&;)\l .

of viva marks in JNU admission process, to stan the possibilityag their hate campaigns against Muslims. ~p.

sis YFE was born in the wake of OBC reservations with the facll!tle§. enhancempnt of MCM and other schola[Jh!Ds/ on pu1:of discrimination and subjective biases. Also ensudnq hostel .

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single point agenda to spread casteist frenzy against social fell9wehlps. resisting feehikes and commercialisation drives .

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justice. Subsequently, with the Implementation of OBC -several such struggles lay ahead. .JtU pm: home ofABVP. But given its deeply reactionary character,.

com reservation, most of its cadres have returned to their original By resisting attacks, by imagining new futures, and lnponu~role YFE continues to invent one devious means or the other to .

scuttle EVERY democratic aspiration and institution ofthe institutionalizingprogressive changes, A/SA has evolvidand 0 ~'mn.'l! .

articulateda radical and creative vision ofpoliticsIn JNU.It has.

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agai, JNU student community, be itUGBM or JNUSU election. playedavanguard role in addressing the burning que~onsofour ml ~\l~~q .

time. We needtobuild a strong,robust resistanc8l8assauffS-on.

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the c( The NSUI generally remains silent and absent, student rightsandcampus democracy; we needto defend the spirit TI Jll ;,/l\ .

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ofJNUSUwhich iscommitted to struggle for asecular; democratic,.

2010. occasionally arousing itself to welcome Congress leaders .

or defend the UPA Government's assault on lives and S\~.

JNUS socially-inclusive andgender-sensitive JNU andsociety atlarge.II rema livelihoods. Sandeep Saurav, Gen.Secy., AISA,JNUOn this campus and beyond, SFI has become a .

spokesperson for the politics of displacement and .

Akbar, President. AfSA, JNU .

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