PaRCha - JNU - All Organisations - 2012 ID-54563
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G;q-Feb '2-012-.
JNUSU UNDER LYNGDOH IS NOT ASITE OF .
STRUGGLE, BUT SURRENDER .
Students union elections in various universities such as Patna University, Jamia Millia lslamia are banned for last manyf. years for the simple reason that students' unity and political debates among students is threat·to the State, though the cited reasons for this anti-democratic/constitutional dictate vary. Progressive students unions have stood like the rock of Gibraltar against the fascist policies of the State. The State has always found these unions major hurdles in implementing the anti-people/students policies. The State is serving the interests of the corporales and is hell-bent on privatising education and thus the LCR. Birla-Ambani report on educations states, "governments must encourage private financing by taking on some of the risks that makes financial Institutions reluctant to lend for higher education." The private sector wants full freedom, including the power to hire and fire, and no law protecting the interests of students, teachers, employees, and the people at large. To achieve full control over education the Blrla-Ambani ·report wanted a legislation that should "enable .all political parties come to an understanding that they wilt keep away from universities and edueat!onallnsUtutlons. Ban any form of political activity on campuses of universities and educational Institutions." Further it states, uKeep the economy fre.e from controls to foster new opportunities that creates a market for education. . Encourage schools of learning to constantly upgrade content and facilities to make them more market oriented." In continuation of this ideology of market oriented education, the onslaught of Lyngdoh came in the year 2006 to .
enforce a uniform system of student elections across the country. Certainly the so called uniformity Will have a.
l .
J particular view point that will be imposed. As per the recommendations of the Lyngdoh committee, the guidelines for students' elections have this framework; "Just as during the freedom movement every university student was a.
,./,} .
nationalist at heart (whether he was active In the movement or not), even so, every university student today must a, be an Integrationist at heart, whatever be his or her field... Virtues like tolerance, discipline, law abidance and punctuality, must be cultivated right from now. True democracy rests on voluntary observance of the laws of the 0; land and not on the enforcement thereof by authority. Your education should inspire you for honour of the motherland and humanism. Students must engage themselves in economic and social development which.
IS I .
1VJJ. narrows down disparities and gradually assists society in raising its standards of behaviour and morality." And with this agenda of making universities and students unions a site of constructing robots who will have the.
des .
vac softwares of integration, tolerance, discipline, law abidance, punctuaJity, it 'allows' students union elections under control agg of Administration with prescribed guidelines from the State. It clearly states, '~In the light of the myr1ad experiences of the conduct of elections faced by the various stakeholders, the Committee was faced with the dilemma of.
resG .
choosing between prohibiting elections, and to enforce a uniform system of student eJec,tions across the country. The choice boiled down to the creation of a space for democratic representation through an effectiveMr. . mechanism that would not only ensure the voicing of grievances and the general welfare of the student populace, but would also provide a healthy learning field for the leaders of tomorrow, while keeping in mind the autonomy.
Prien .
of the university in matters of impartJng education and maintaining a certain modicum of decorum and disciplinekm. on the campus." This is nothing but another ploy of the repressive State to curb the voice of the struggle of differentPakis t'.
nationalities..
hand( Not only this, to get this purpose served the Lyngdoh committee 'ensures' that most of the students from the.
1 .
Kasbn deprived sections (SC/ST/OBC/Minority/PH) are not 'eligible' to contest Many students coming from Madarsa background .
entire have crossed the prescribed age under Lyngdoh for contesting elections already. The clauses of merit, age' are the tools .
the Pa of BrahmnicaVcommunaVfascist State to deprive us from our space/rights. .
constn Given this reality that Lyngdoh is a toot to suppress students movements, it was challenged by the students all .
String over the country. JNU became a site where the relentless struggle against Lyngodh went on to four years. Courtesy .
.
It Will I renegades AISA-SFI led boggie that the Lyngdoh is finally implemented in JNU with so caJied 'relaxations'. The anti-also ne Lyngdoh voice in the campus was labelled as anti-election voice. In the election-mania the very argument of standing gas riel-against Lyngdoh was made to disappear. Now when the AISA-SFIIed boggie is fighting elections under Lyngdoh, there is also a belief emerged within a section of the 'anti-Lyngdoh camp' that there is a need for intervention in ijlese elections under Lyngdoh. Thou~h the[e.is .
an understanding to expose the pseudo left, the only way explored for this is election again. Students Foi"'Reslstance (SFR) believes that the responsibility of exposing the reactionary-revisionist forces cannot be reduced to elections. Atthe same time there Is no possibility for,.lnterventlon within a spa~e where the Adrnlnlstiatlon has all the powers to dissolve the union at any moment they like. We have experiences of universities like Hyderabad and .
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PaRCha - JNU - All Organisations - 2012 ID-54563
.
·. ;;;:no£-~fW7 .
G;q-Feb '2-012-.
JNUSU UNDER LYNGDOH IS NOT ASITE OF .
STRUGGLE, BUT SURRENDER .
Students union elections in various universities such as Patna University, Jamia Millia lslamia are banned for last manyf. years for the simple reason that students' unity and political debates among students is threat·to the State, though the cited reasons for this anti-democratic/constitutional dictate vary. Progressive students unions have stood like the rock of Gibraltar against the fascist policies of the State. The State has always found these unions major hurdles in implementing the anti-people/students policies. The State is serving the interests of the corporales and is hell-bent on privatising education and thus the LCR. Birla-Ambani report on educations states, "governments must encourage private financing by taking on some of the risks that makes financial Institutions reluctant to lend for higher education." The private sector wants full freedom, including the power to hire and fire, and no law protecting the interests of students, teachers, employees, and the people at large. To achieve full control over education the Blrla-Ambani ·report wanted a legislation that should "enable .all political parties come to an understanding that they wilt keep away from universities and edueat!onallnsUtutlons. Ban any form of political activity on campuses of universities and educational Institutions." Further it states, uKeep the economy fre.e from controls to foster new opportunities that creates a market for education. . Encourage schools of learning to constantly upgrade content and facilities to make them more market oriented." In continuation of this ideology of market oriented education, the onslaught of Lyngdoh came in the year 2006 to .
enforce a uniform system of student elections across the country. Certainly the so called uniformity Will have a.
l .
J particular view point that will be imposed. As per the recommendations of the Lyngdoh committee, the guidelines for students' elections have this framework; "Just as during the freedom movement every university student was a.
,./,} .
nationalist at heart (whether he was active In the movement or not), even so, every university student today must a, be an Integrationist at heart, whatever be his or her field... Virtues like tolerance, discipline, law abidance and punctuality, must be cultivated right from now. True democracy rests on voluntary observance of the laws of the 0; land and not on the enforcement thereof by authority. Your education should inspire you for honour of the motherland and humanism. Students must engage themselves in economic and social development which.
IS I .
1VJJ. narrows down disparities and gradually assists society in raising its standards of behaviour and morality." And with this agenda of making universities and students unions a site of constructing robots who will have the.
des .
vac softwares of integration, tolerance, discipline, law abidance, punctuaJity, it 'allows' students union elections under control agg of Administration with prescribed guidelines from the State. It clearly states, '~In the light of the myr1ad experiences of the conduct of elections faced by the various stakeholders, the Committee was faced with the dilemma of.
resG .
choosing between prohibiting elections, and to enforce a uniform system of student eJec,tions across the country. The choice boiled down to the creation of a space for democratic representation through an effectiveMr. . mechanism that would not only ensure the voicing of grievances and the general welfare of the student populace, but would also provide a healthy learning field for the leaders of tomorrow, while keeping in mind the autonomy.
Prien .
of the university in matters of impartJng education and maintaining a certain modicum of decorum and disciplinekm. on the campus." This is nothing but another ploy of the repressive State to curb the voice of the struggle of differentPakis t'.
nationalities..
hand( Not only this, to get this purpose served the Lyngdoh committee 'ensures' that most of the students from the.
1 .
Kasbn deprived sections (SC/ST/OBC/Minority/PH) are not 'eligible' to contest Many students coming from Madarsa background .
entire have crossed the prescribed age under Lyngdoh for contesting elections already. The clauses of merit, age' are the tools .
the Pa of BrahmnicaVcommunaVfascist State to deprive us from our space/rights. .
constn Given this reality that Lyngdoh is a toot to suppress students movements, it was challenged by the students all .
String over the country. JNU became a site where the relentless struggle against Lyngodh went on to four years. Courtesy .
.
It Will I renegades AISA-SFI led boggie that the Lyngdoh is finally implemented in JNU with so caJied 'relaxations'. The anti-also ne Lyngdoh voice in the campus was labelled as anti-election voice. In the election-mania the very argument of standing gas riel-against Lyngdoh was made to disappear. Now when the AISA-SFIIed boggie is fighting elections under Lyngdoh, there is also a belief emerged within a section of the 'anti-Lyngdoh camp' that there is a need for intervention in ijlese elections under Lyngdoh. Thou~h the[e.is .
an understanding to expose the pseudo left, the only way explored for this is election again. Students Foi"'Reslstance (SFR) believes that the responsibility of exposing the reactionary-revisionist forces cannot be reduced to elections. Atthe same time there Is no possibility for,.lnterventlon within a spa~e where the Adrnlnlstiatlon has all the powers to dissolve the union at any moment they like. We have experiences of universities like Hyderabad and .
.
..,. .
,, .
, ,;~·i: '. PD ~~·:1:·..~-~~ I I o'k·li·,. '1: ! >:;! 'i~< ~~·;~:!~J/:'f!~-..
.
~:: ' ~· · I " · , · rf:t '1-"';-;r ::~ :t ·r~·infl!:~·;.·.. I .
' l}f. ' l,r.,·:' '. '· .
--.· .. .
·, .
··. ,.. ., .
·.. ;, t! .,. "!'"· "' '11 · 'llu:'I · .. , .
.~ .. 1",. :.-!!,' ·--~. ::;; ._'! ,:~I i:'F: lJ ''l !, -~:;r.; I. · , U~.f]J'' p ., jl ,. ; . j,·o--''c . llfi! -·, .1'1 ·,' · I ,'J· -'I'!" · '.,1·1 I '.
.tirtr f.
.,,.
<' o'J11 ~··(--'.' ..;I': .
. .
.,, .
.