PaRCha - JNU - All Organisations - 2009 ID-50225
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Faulty Gut-off Criterion: Recognize and Fight the Administration's Ploys To Scuttle .
OBC Reservations! Reject Petty Politicking Against JNUSU Without Addressing the Real Issue at Hand!! .
30.7.0All 9 the results of the 2009-10 admissions in JNU have been released,revealing what JNUSUhasbeenwarning about for the past one year.This js the second year of the implementation of the OBCReservation Act, and while the JNU administration claims to have reserved 18% .
s,eats for OBC candidates,slightly more than 14%seats have been filled under the OBCquota. In other words,there is adeficit of almost4% .
thisyear.with more than 70 OBC seatsnotbeing filledby OBCcandidates. .
The entire studentcommunity is witness tothe factthatJNUSU has single-handedly beenpinning theadministrationby pointing outtheexactproblem athand. It isthe result ofcontinuous struggles over the pastyear, and the vigilance of thestudent community thatthe JNU administrationwas forced to this year,with some specificexceptions. However,thehugeshort-fall in fulfillmentorOBCseatsshowshowdetermined theJNU administrationis toscuttle correctsome or the anomalies that we saw last year.TheSC.ST. and PH seatsinmostcenters have significantly improvedand by and largebeen filled .
the constitutionally mandated OBC reservations. .
JNUSU has been pointing out the precise reason for th1s massive shortfall -the faulty, illegal, and mischievous criteria that the JNU .
.
administration is using for setting the cut-off marksfor OBC candidates: Wehavealwaysmaintained thatthis structura!flawis the single most .
importantreasonfor thefactthat several OBCseatsremain unfulfilled.That is the reasonwhy evenafter several other anomalies havebeencorrected, .
OBCseatsremainunfulfilled.After aprolongedJNUSU-Ied strugglelastyear,the administrationwas forced toset uptwocommittees tolook intothe gross .
thecut-off marksfor OBC candidates. TheJNU administration howeverused the Supreme Court stay order onthe JNUSU elections tokeep the JNUSU .
anomalies 10the 2008admissionsprocess thatJNUSUhad pointedout. TheAdityaMukherjeecomm1ttee in particular was setup tolook into theissueof .
out of thecommittees,eventhoughit was the student community thatwas primarily responsibleforbring1ng these issues tothe fore More shockingly,the .
JNUadministration has used theAditya Mukhedeecommittee toendorse its patently illegal position. .
.
For the pastone year.JNUSU has been leading thestruggleforproper implementation ofOBC reservations in the faceofaconcerted attack from .
the casteist forces well-entrenched in the JNU administration. Unfortunately,this struggle has been characterized by a conspicuous lack of .
support, mobilization and opinion building by most student organizations on campus, who preferred to train their guns on JNUSU .
rather than focussing on this mischief of the administration. .
During last year's hunger stnke, when JNUSU was the only force to talk about this real imped1ment of manipulatedcut-off marks being the main .
obstacle in fulfill1ng OBC seats, both theSFIand the DSU refused to acknowledge this as aproblem.Duringtheentiremovement,far from extending minimum cooperation with the JNUSU, they ra1sed extraneous issues and did the1r best todeflect the wholemovement with routine .
abuses againstJNUSU .
Even t1fl now, they have not issued as1ngle ~tajPmentrecogniz1ng the central gravity of th1s 1ssue as the most cruc1al roadblock for fulfillment of OBC reservations. .
iv·c ~;vu:d like tv ask tr.esz c·;::::!za;:c·:1~ :h0~~handc: ·1.!ti!T'3Iely getstrengthened v.;hen .,.ou in<iulge in such un1nformed and Irresponsible .
behavior? The entire range of anti-rese1vauon fort.es both -11ith1n and outside the JNU administration are thoroughly united 1n their machinations .
to scuttle the potential of OBC reservations In thts Situation. these organizations have adopted the most unfortunatetactics of total silence on the .
actual1mpediments and engag1ng 1n relentless unfounded abuses against the JNUSU as the onlysolutionto theproblem. Unless this crucial .
criterion ofcut-off marks 1s solved.non-fulfillment of OBC sE:ats will remain apermanentproblem notjust thisyearbut for all days tocome no matter they perhaps believe that their wh1ch organ1zauon is 1n charge of JNUSU. Therefore,the1r whole approach is noth1ng but that of extractinq politicalmileage at the cost ofbuild1ng a umted and all-round mobilization in defense of the real cause. Just because they are not in the JNUSU1 .
JNUSU believes that such politics of misinformation, abuse a1d deflection is doing immense damage tothe struggle.Such non-seriousness and .
resoons1bility begins and ends with abusing JNUSU. .
.
.
forum) an additional handle to trivialize this serious issueas agame ofpoliticking, rather than help to hold the administrabonaccountable. misinformed posturings by these organizations has been giving the administration(whichis in any casehell-bent on denying the JNUSU any .
meeting".Thefact ofthematter is thatright from the time when thecasteist forces led by theYFE wererunning acampaign against OBCreservations in JNUSU has been accused ofunotholding asingle protest on the issue of OBCreservations, and only calling one protestmeeting andone public .
JNU,the anti-reservationlobby in the campus has been countered w1th aspiritedcampaign through protest actions, wide mobilizations, hunger strikes and various other meansof opinion building.The need of the hour isto mobilize varioussections in theuniversity and outside to expose and nail .
the administration for its continued calculated mischief on the cut-off question. Far from tokenism, mobilizingopinion from other campuses, .
-.
mobilizing activistsand socialscientistsfrom both inside and outside JNU to activelytakeupand zero inon the issue arecrucial for thepresent stage ofthe .
movement. It is becauseof such an initiative that noted social scientistYogendraYadav,whoisamember of theUGC's Committee in chargeofensuring .
proper implementation of OBCreservations I was ask&d to take d ruuiic position on JNU's specific anomaly.Yogendra Yadav not only blasted JNU administration'sfollyl healsobrought to light the unfortunate factthat UGC's own monitoring committee has notmet even once in thepastyear!In the Protest In the Meeting wrth Yogendra Yadav,SFI totally boycottedthe programme.So muchfor theirmuch claimed"concem" for theissue. SFI whichis running Meeting with students from othercampuses, SFIleft the meeting on plea of"delay"and DSU was asilent observerwith not awordor suggesstiontooffer. Along with mobilizing the studentcommunity,opinionbuildingand isolating theadministration onthismatterand making various sectionsof the faculty .
acompetitiveabuse campaign against JNUSU should also explain whyin CPI(M)ruled WestBengal, OBCresrvation is as lowas 5%-7%! .
whichtill nowhad been single-handedlyworking on theissueI refuses to fall prey to thecalculated politicking and posturings by certain studentgroups.Weremain and will continue to whostill remain unaware of the real import ofthe administration'smachinations remainsakeytaskof thestruggle.JNUSU1 .
remain focussed inour struggle tonail the administration.The JNU student community has aresponsibility beyond cheap politiking.Wehave tounderstand the gravity of thenexusofanti-reservation forces bec'Juse this fundamental problemrequires apermanentsettlement without which OBC .
only be defeatedbyprincipled and informed unity ofall forces genuinelycommitted to social justice.We appealtothe student community toreject reservationswill remainpermanently scuttledfor all times infuturetoo. Anti-reservation forces areextremely united intheirnexus and game plan, theycan .
l\1obecnAlam all deflecting tactics and stand united with JNUSUto overcome the difficult challenges. Jt. Secy., JNUSU.
Shcphalil<~ .
Sandecp Vice-President.,JNUSU .
President~ JNUSU .
.
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PaRCha - JNU - All Organisations - 2009 ID-50225
.
\{~/-o{. .
Faulty Gut-off Criterion: Recognize and Fight the Administration's Ploys To Scuttle .
OBC Reservations! Reject Petty Politicking Against JNUSU Without Addressing the Real Issue at Hand!! .
30.7.0All 9 the results of the 2009-10 admissions in JNU have been released,revealing what JNUSUhasbeenwarning about for the past one year.This js the second year of the implementation of the OBCReservation Act, and while the JNU administration claims to have reserved 18% .
s,eats for OBC candidates,slightly more than 14%seats have been filled under the OBCquota. In other words,there is adeficit of almost4% .
thisyear.with more than 70 OBC seatsnotbeing filledby OBCcandidates. .
The entire studentcommunity is witness tothe factthatJNUSU has single-handedly beenpinning theadministrationby pointing outtheexactproblem athand. It isthe result ofcontinuous struggles over the pastyear, and the vigilance of thestudent community thatthe JNU administrationwas forced to this year,with some specificexceptions. However,thehugeshort-fall in fulfillmentorOBCseatsshowshowdetermined theJNU administrationis toscuttle correctsome or the anomalies that we saw last year.TheSC.ST. and PH seatsinmostcenters have significantly improvedand by and largebeen filled .
the constitutionally mandated OBC reservations. .
JNUSU has been pointing out the precise reason for th1s massive shortfall -the faulty, illegal, and mischievous criteria that the JNU .
.
administration is using for setting the cut-off marksfor OBC candidates: Wehavealwaysmaintained thatthis structura!flawis the single most .
importantreasonfor thefactthat several OBCseatsremain unfulfilled.That is the reasonwhy evenafter several other anomalies havebeencorrected, .
OBCseatsremainunfulfilled.After aprolongedJNUSU-Ied strugglelastyear,the administrationwas forced toset uptwocommittees tolook intothe gross .
thecut-off marksfor OBC candidates. TheJNU administration howeverused the Supreme Court stay order onthe JNUSU elections tokeep the JNUSU .
anomalies 10the 2008admissionsprocess thatJNUSUhad pointedout. TheAdityaMukherjeecomm1ttee in particular was setup tolook into theissueof .
out of thecommittees,eventhoughit was the student community thatwas primarily responsibleforbring1ng these issues tothe fore More shockingly,the .
JNUadministration has used theAditya Mukhedeecommittee toendorse its patently illegal position. .
.
For the pastone year.JNUSU has been leading thestruggleforproper implementation ofOBC reservations in the faceofaconcerted attack from .
the casteist forces well-entrenched in the JNU administration. Unfortunately,this struggle has been characterized by a conspicuous lack of .
support, mobilization and opinion building by most student organizations on campus, who preferred to train their guns on JNUSU .
rather than focussing on this mischief of the administration. .
During last year's hunger stnke, when JNUSU was the only force to talk about this real imped1ment of manipulatedcut-off marks being the main .
obstacle in fulfill1ng OBC seats, both theSFIand the DSU refused to acknowledge this as aproblem.Duringtheentiremovement,far from extending minimum cooperation with the JNUSU, they ra1sed extraneous issues and did the1r best todeflect the wholemovement with routine .
abuses againstJNUSU .
Even t1fl now, they have not issued as1ngle ~tajPmentrecogniz1ng the central gravity of th1s 1ssue as the most cruc1al roadblock for fulfillment of OBC reservations. .
iv·c ~;vu:d like tv ask tr.esz c·;::::!za;:c·:1~ :h0~~handc: ·1.!ti!T'3Iely getstrengthened v.;hen .,.ou in<iulge in such un1nformed and Irresponsible .
behavior? The entire range of anti-rese1vauon fort.es both -11ith1n and outside the JNU administration are thoroughly united 1n their machinations .
to scuttle the potential of OBC reservations In thts Situation. these organizations have adopted the most unfortunatetactics of total silence on the .
actual1mpediments and engag1ng 1n relentless unfounded abuses against the JNUSU as the onlysolutionto theproblem. Unless this crucial .
criterion ofcut-off marks 1s solved.non-fulfillment of OBC sE:ats will remain apermanentproblem notjust thisyearbut for all days tocome no matter they perhaps believe that their wh1ch organ1zauon is 1n charge of JNUSU. Therefore,the1r whole approach is noth1ng but that of extractinq politicalmileage at the cost ofbuild1ng a umted and all-round mobilization in defense of the real cause. Just because they are not in the JNUSU1 .
JNUSU believes that such politics of misinformation, abuse a1d deflection is doing immense damage tothe struggle.Such non-seriousness and .
resoons1bility begins and ends with abusing JNUSU. .
.
.
forum) an additional handle to trivialize this serious issueas agame ofpoliticking, rather than help to hold the administrabonaccountable. misinformed posturings by these organizations has been giving the administration(whichis in any casehell-bent on denying the JNUSU any .
meeting".Thefact ofthematter is thatright from the time when thecasteist forces led by theYFE wererunning acampaign against OBCreservations in JNUSU has been accused ofunotholding asingle protest on the issue of OBCreservations, and only calling one protestmeeting andone public .
JNU,the anti-reservationlobby in the campus has been countered w1th aspiritedcampaign through protest actions, wide mobilizations, hunger strikes and various other meansof opinion building.The need of the hour isto mobilize varioussections in theuniversity and outside to expose and nail .
the administration for its continued calculated mischief on the cut-off question. Far from tokenism, mobilizingopinion from other campuses, .
-.
mobilizing activistsand socialscientistsfrom both inside and outside JNU to activelytakeupand zero inon the issue arecrucial for thepresent stage ofthe .
movement. It is becauseof such an initiative that noted social scientistYogendraYadav,whoisamember of theUGC's Committee in chargeofensuring .
proper implementation of OBCreservations I was ask&d to take d ruuiic position on JNU's specific anomaly.Yogendra Yadav not only blasted JNU administration'sfollyl healsobrought to light the unfortunate factthat UGC's own monitoring committee has notmet even once in thepastyear!In the Protest In the Meeting wrth Yogendra Yadav,SFI totally boycottedthe programme.So muchfor theirmuch claimed"concem" for theissue. SFI whichis running Meeting with students from othercampuses, SFIleft the meeting on plea of"delay"and DSU was asilent observerwith not awordor suggesstiontooffer. Along with mobilizing the studentcommunity,opinionbuildingand isolating theadministration onthismatterand making various sectionsof the faculty .
acompetitiveabuse campaign against JNUSU should also explain whyin CPI(M)ruled WestBengal, OBCresrvation is as lowas 5%-7%! .
whichtill nowhad been single-handedlyworking on theissueI refuses to fall prey to thecalculated politicking and posturings by certain studentgroups.Weremain and will continue to whostill remain unaware of the real import ofthe administration'smachinations remainsakeytaskof thestruggle.JNUSU1 .
remain focussed inour struggle tonail the administration.The JNU student community has aresponsibility beyond cheap politiking.Wehave tounderstand the gravity of thenexusofanti-reservation forces bec'Juse this fundamental problemrequires apermanentsettlement without which OBC .
only be defeatedbyprincipled and informed unity ofall forces genuinelycommitted to social justice.We appealtothe student community toreject reservationswill remainpermanently scuttledfor all times infuturetoo. Anti-reservation forces areextremely united intheirnexus and game plan, theycan .
l\1obecnAlam all deflecting tactics and stand united with JNUSUto overcome the difficult challenges. Jt. Secy., JNUSU.
Shcphalil<~ .
Sandecp Vice-President.,JNUSU .
President~ JNUSU .
.
.