PaRCha - JNU - DSU - 2006 ID-58064
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Auniversitv that does not allow dissent becomes aprison! .
IntensifY the struggle against Lvngdoh Recommendations! tlk .
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The recent stay on JNUSU elections for violation of the Lyngdoh recommendations is yet another instance of direct 106 state intervention to curb democratic movements, of students this time, to crush the voices of dissent. This is yet another attempt of the state to depoliticize students' politics and to curtail our rights quest1on and protest. tlon .
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Is Lyngdoh really aiming at curbing money and muscle power as many would like us to believe? Vvell, the Amicus Curie in Supreme Court who is entitled to oversee the violations of Lyngdoh Committee Yet recommendations has not sent a single letter to the universities that have not started election process following Ion the recommendations of the report or to the universities like DU which have open!y and blatant!·: flouted the 1E, recommendations by using as much money and muscle power as it used to do. But it did stay the JNUSU elections ISS .
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uecause the real aim cf Lyngdoh is to curb poHticization of the students and create students' unions which are bureaucratized, depoliticized and works as a puppet of un1vers1ty authorities. Where students' polit1cs s cocooned within a limited frame and not allowed to debate, discuss and vote on issues of social and political importance. 0.
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All laws come with a 'progressive face'. No laws formulated and implemented by the state oper.'y claims to .
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repress. The POTA, TADA, MCOCA etc where brought forward to ensure 'national integrity'. The AFSPA was brought with the pretext of 'national security', the SEZ act came 1n with the aim of 'development'. Bu: these laws are actually aimed to repress, to deny the democratic rights to the people, to throttle the voices of dissent, and to liquidate people's movements against the powers that be. The Lyngdoh committee recommendations w1th all 1ts so-called progressive aims are ultimately aimed at curbing the democratic movemEnts of the stuc-~ts and to silence the voices of critiqu~ and disse:1t that emerges through these movements. .
Is it a matter that concerns the 'political lot' of JNU only? The stay on JNUSU election is not ·_stan order against the election process. It is a direct assault on the students' movement and politics. And oc :1cs in this campus is far wide spread than just elections. Some people say Lyngdoh has praised the JNU moe.::: . But tbat model is not only about the technicalities that ensure a money-muscle free peaceful election. It 1s :m evolved model of political consciousness, of the culture of debate, Lhe cou:--age to c;uestion and critique anyth t;:. the nght to protest and to fight for rights and justice, to fight agamst oppression and injustice. And not surp" s ""gly these are the things that i"lr.Lyngdor1's recommendations ultimately a1m to curb. JNU student movemen-.,as fought agair.st the wa·.; JNU ~~ being subtly CO(poratised, against th~ monopoly of nestle outlet, when worke'"s ~ ghts are openly being viol3te<i, when reservation is crcftily deniec, when communal lumpens are sh1e :t:d by the administration. Any issues pertaining to students' welfare, be 1t the fight agam:;t privatization of t1·~ un1versity .
t .
I fight against fee-hike, fight to build new hostels, to hik~ the MCM amount, to recogn1ze Al1r1 . at -Fazt:at .
I .
I certificates, or the fight to ensure end regularize scholarships etc. have all been clinched w1th collect . -' struggles .
I of students and under the banner of JNUSU. And all these struggles were political Fights agains· a casteist communal and patnarchal administration which is hell-bent on corporatis1ng and eventually p; . at111ng the university in due course as per the Birla-Ambani Report. Lyngdoh and his reactionary recommenda t101S are only here to facilitate that. The rich political debates on campus where students not only build their opmto'ls but also vote on the larger questions of imperialist aggression, on slate repression, the neo-economic polietes. the nuke deal, SEZs, land grab and the fight against it, the movements on nationality question etc. are also cor~radictory to.
l the ··integrationist: and nationalist' politics thct ~-1r. Lyngdoh recommends. .
The way ahead: The stay on JNUSU elections has to be vacated in the court through a legal battle. 6 . ...r so far no .
stay order on any stuaents' union has been won m the court only. The legal battle will have to go parallel .
with a strong political battle exposing the real intentions of the state intervention in students' .
politics. It is NOT money-muscle power and criminalization of students politics that they seek to attack. It is the .
poiiticization of studencs' politics, our right to protesc and a1ssent mat they seek tO assault. And JNU i<; not the first .
university that is standing against the reactionary recommendations of Lyngdoh. The SU elections o: Allahabad .
University have been stayed on the pretext of 'preparing formalities conducive for Lyngdoh recommendations' for .
the last two years. The students of Kanpur and Lucknow University have heen brutally lath1-charged o the police .
while they were protesting aqainst the implementation of Lhe same. It is by rejecting the lyngdoh .
recommendations everywhere in toto and fighting against the all forms of state's repression that we .
can democratize students' politics and our present society. .
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.
.
.
PaRCha - JNU - DSU - 2006 ID-58064
.
-- .
.... 'T .!t_ .... -"...... "'f'"l r r .
n'1 n tr1 A C\ __ .
-.
~nee! .
Auniversitv that does not allow dissent becomes aprison! .
IntensifY the struggle against Lvngdoh Recommendations! tlk .
.
The recent stay on JNUSU elections for violation of the Lyngdoh recommendations is yet another instance of direct 106 state intervention to curb democratic movements, of students this time, to crush the voices of dissent. This is yet another attempt of the state to depoliticize students' politics and to curtail our rights quest1on and protest. tlon .
anc.
Is Lyngdoh really aiming at curbing money and muscle power as many would like us to believe? Vvell, the Amicus Curie in Supreme Court who is entitled to oversee the violations of Lyngdoh Committee Yet recommendations has not sent a single letter to the universities that have not started election process following Ion the recommendations of the report or to the universities like DU which have open!y and blatant!·: flouted the 1E, recommendations by using as much money and muscle power as it used to do. But it did stay the JNUSU elections ISS .
30.
uecause the real aim cf Lyngdoh is to curb poHticization of the students and create students' unions which are bureaucratized, depoliticized and works as a puppet of un1vers1ty authorities. Where students' polit1cs s cocooned within a limited frame and not allowed to debate, discuss and vote on issues of social and political importance. 0.
,.
All laws come with a 'progressive face'. No laws formulated and implemented by the state oper.'y claims to .
1.
repress. The POTA, TADA, MCOCA etc where brought forward to ensure 'national integrity'. The AFSPA was brought with the pretext of 'national security', the SEZ act came 1n with the aim of 'development'. Bu: these laws are actually aimed to repress, to deny the democratic rights to the people, to throttle the voices of dissent, and to liquidate people's movements against the powers that be. The Lyngdoh committee recommendations w1th all 1ts so-called progressive aims are ultimately aimed at curbing the democratic movemEnts of the stuc-~ts and to silence the voices of critiqu~ and disse:1t that emerges through these movements. .
Is it a matter that concerns the 'political lot' of JNU only? The stay on JNUSU election is not ·_stan order against the election process. It is a direct assault on the students' movement and politics. And oc :1cs in this campus is far wide spread than just elections. Some people say Lyngdoh has praised the JNU moe.::: . But tbat model is not only about the technicalities that ensure a money-muscle free peaceful election. It 1s :m evolved model of political consciousness, of the culture of debate, Lhe cou:--age to c;uestion and critique anyth t;:. the nght to protest and to fight for rights and justice, to fight agamst oppression and injustice. And not surp" s ""gly these are the things that i"lr.Lyngdor1's recommendations ultimately a1m to curb. JNU student movemen-.,as fought agair.st the wa·.; JNU ~~ being subtly CO(poratised, against th~ monopoly of nestle outlet, when worke'"s ~ ghts are openly being viol3te<i, when reservation is crcftily deniec, when communal lumpens are sh1e :t:d by the administration. Any issues pertaining to students' welfare, be 1t the fight agam:;t privatization of t1·~ un1versity .
t .
I fight against fee-hike, fight to build new hostels, to hik~ the MCM amount, to recogn1ze Al1r1 . at -Fazt:at .
I .
I certificates, or the fight to ensure end regularize scholarships etc. have all been clinched w1th collect . -' struggles .
I of students and under the banner of JNUSU. And all these struggles were political Fights agains· a casteist communal and patnarchal administration which is hell-bent on corporatis1ng and eventually p; . at111ng the university in due course as per the Birla-Ambani Report. Lyngdoh and his reactionary recommenda t101S are only here to facilitate that. The rich political debates on campus where students not only build their opmto'ls but also vote on the larger questions of imperialist aggression, on slate repression, the neo-economic polietes. the nuke deal, SEZs, land grab and the fight against it, the movements on nationality question etc. are also cor~radictory to.
l the ··integrationist: and nationalist' politics thct ~-1r. Lyngdoh recommends. .
The way ahead: The stay on JNUSU elections has to be vacated in the court through a legal battle. 6 . ...r so far no .
stay order on any stuaents' union has been won m the court only. The legal battle will have to go parallel .
with a strong political battle exposing the real intentions of the state intervention in students' .
politics. It is NOT money-muscle power and criminalization of students politics that they seek to attack. It is the .
poiiticization of studencs' politics, our right to protesc and a1ssent mat they seek tO assault. And JNU i<; not the first .
university that is standing against the reactionary recommendations of Lyngdoh. The SU elections o: Allahabad .
University have been stayed on the pretext of 'preparing formalities conducive for Lyngdoh recommendations' for .
the last two years. The students of Kanpur and Lucknow University have heen brutally lath1-charged o the police .
while they were protesting aqainst the implementation of Lhe same. It is by rejecting the lyngdoh .
recommendations everywhere in toto and fighting against the all forms of state's repression that we .
can democratize students' politics and our present society. .
.
.
.
.