PaRCha - JNU - NSUI - 2006 ID-66984
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NATIONAL STUDENTS' UNION OF INDIA .
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20.07.04 .
EXPOSE THE HYPOCRISY OF THE SFI .
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Friends, .
NSUI welcomes all the students back for the current semester, and extends an especially .
warm welcome to the new students who will be joining us this year. The JNU campus is unique in that .
senior students extend all help possible to the newcomers, whether it is through helping them with the .
admission process, or by accommodating them in their rooms till the time they get the hostel. .
Posters and pamphlets are an important medium through which each organisation spreads its .
message to the students of the campus. Unfortunately, we have seen in recent times that SFI has .
taken on the role of moral policing in the campus. Since they have no achievements of any note of .
their own, they have taken the task of policing other organisations. We would like to remind them that .
NSUI is more concerned about protecting the unique nature of this campus than SF I, considering that .
this campus was set up with the visionary guidance of the late Prime Minister Smt. Indira Gandhi. If .
SFI was indeed so bothered about the aesthetics of the campus, may we ask, why Nestle had been .
allowed to set up shop here? Or even why SFI did not bother about campus aesthetics before .
plastering the whole stretch from North Gate to Teflas recently with their organisational posters and .
banners? The role of SFI in the campus is rather like George Bush on the international political stage. .
George Bush says that anyone not with the US is with the terronsts, similarly on campus, whatever .
SFI does is right, even if wrong, and whatever others do is wrong, even if right. Are we not aware of .
the kind of muscle power and money power that is used by SFI to practice its politics all over the .
country? The recent incidents that took place in Jadavpur University, Calcutta! when the state police .
were called in to suppress the protests of students on hunger strike had the tacit support of the State .
Government as well as the SFI. In Kerala, violence of the worst kind is used to prevent other .
organisations from filing nominations in the elections. In JNU, too. SFI has gifted the campus~ 1~19 .
Hall of (in)Fame. From the Peeping Tom in Sabarmat1 hostel to the numerous sexual harassers to .
most recently, a comrade of SFI who was actually being shielded by the JNUSU and SFI office .
bearers, while he was indulging in a murderous attack on a security guard. He has now been charged with attempt to murder. Such is the contribution of SFI to the peaceful atmosphere in the campus!! There is a saying in English that people living in glasshouses should not throw stones at others. SFI would do well to heed this advice. .
Regarding the other accusation that SFI has levelled against NSUI cadres about jumping into auto and buses, may we remind the comrades that last year, one of their fellow comrades, who is also an office-bearer in the JNUSU had literally snatched away a person being provided assistance by a NSUI cadre, who also happened to be a Dalit. When there was a protest, she retorted by saying that "Hum Union mein hain, hum kuch bhi kar sakte hain ... tumhara koi au kat nahi hai hamare saath baat karne ka." Year after year, SFI deploys some of its cadres for only one purpose at the Ad. aiG-.;k, and that is to snatch away those being provided assistance by other organisations. We warn the SFl against engaging 1n undernocratic malpractices that spoil the whole atmosphere of friendliness that we try and provide to the freshers. who are tensed as it is, and appeal to them to conduct themselves with the dignity that befits bot~ a senior student as well as a responsible outfit in the campus. We also appeal to the students to remain vigilant against the hypocritical politics of the SFI. .
OUR DEMOCRATIC AND PROGRESSIVE CULTURE LONG LIVE!/ .
JA/ HIND!!! .
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Sd/-Sd/-Madhumita Chakraborty Waseem Saghar Azmi President, NSUI JNU Gen. Secy, NSUI JNU .
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PaRCha - JNU - NSUI - 2006 ID-66984
.
:tu 11'1 f.15I.1 J I~ I1r.J.
;a:_;s,.. · .
NATIONAL STUDENTS' UNION OF INDIA .
.
20.07.04 .
EXPOSE THE HYPOCRISY OF THE SFI .
.
Friends, .
NSUI welcomes all the students back for the current semester, and extends an especially .
warm welcome to the new students who will be joining us this year. The JNU campus is unique in that .
senior students extend all help possible to the newcomers, whether it is through helping them with the .
admission process, or by accommodating them in their rooms till the time they get the hostel. .
Posters and pamphlets are an important medium through which each organisation spreads its .
message to the students of the campus. Unfortunately, we have seen in recent times that SFI has .
taken on the role of moral policing in the campus. Since they have no achievements of any note of .
their own, they have taken the task of policing other organisations. We would like to remind them that .
NSUI is more concerned about protecting the unique nature of this campus than SF I, considering that .
this campus was set up with the visionary guidance of the late Prime Minister Smt. Indira Gandhi. If .
SFI was indeed so bothered about the aesthetics of the campus, may we ask, why Nestle had been .
allowed to set up shop here? Or even why SFI did not bother about campus aesthetics before .
plastering the whole stretch from North Gate to Teflas recently with their organisational posters and .
banners? The role of SFI in the campus is rather like George Bush on the international political stage. .
George Bush says that anyone not with the US is with the terronsts, similarly on campus, whatever .
SFI does is right, even if wrong, and whatever others do is wrong, even if right. Are we not aware of .
the kind of muscle power and money power that is used by SFI to practice its politics all over the .
country? The recent incidents that took place in Jadavpur University, Calcutta! when the state police .
were called in to suppress the protests of students on hunger strike had the tacit support of the State .
Government as well as the SFI. In Kerala, violence of the worst kind is used to prevent other .
organisations from filing nominations in the elections. In JNU, too. SFI has gifted the campus~ 1~19 .
Hall of (in)Fame. From the Peeping Tom in Sabarmat1 hostel to the numerous sexual harassers to .
most recently, a comrade of SFI who was actually being shielded by the JNUSU and SFI office .
bearers, while he was indulging in a murderous attack on a security guard. He has now been charged with attempt to murder. Such is the contribution of SFI to the peaceful atmosphere in the campus!! There is a saying in English that people living in glasshouses should not throw stones at others. SFI would do well to heed this advice. .
Regarding the other accusation that SFI has levelled against NSUI cadres about jumping into auto and buses, may we remind the comrades that last year, one of their fellow comrades, who is also an office-bearer in the JNUSU had literally snatched away a person being provided assistance by a NSUI cadre, who also happened to be a Dalit. When there was a protest, she retorted by saying that "Hum Union mein hain, hum kuch bhi kar sakte hain ... tumhara koi au kat nahi hai hamare saath baat karne ka." Year after year, SFI deploys some of its cadres for only one purpose at the Ad. aiG-.;k, and that is to snatch away those being provided assistance by other organisations. We warn the SFl against engaging 1n undernocratic malpractices that spoil the whole atmosphere of friendliness that we try and provide to the freshers. who are tensed as it is, and appeal to them to conduct themselves with the dignity that befits bot~ a senior student as well as a responsible outfit in the campus. We also appeal to the students to remain vigilant against the hypocritical politics of the SFI. .
OUR DEMOCRATIC AND PROGRESSIVE CULTURE LONG LIVE!/ .
JA/ HIND!!! .
.
.
Sd/-Sd/-Madhumita Chakraborty Waseem Saghar Azmi President, NSUI JNU Gen. Secy, NSUI JNU .
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