PaRCha - JNU - SFI - 1998 ID-67917
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STUDENTS FEDERATION OF INDIA .
ALL INDIA STUDENTS FEDERATION .
!)1.11.1998 .
ONWARDS TO JNUSU ELECTLONS 1998 .
Friends, .
Last year the SFI-AISF sought a mandate from the student community to protect the democratic culture and_ academic In the backdrop of a systematic effort to.
environment of JNU which was under severe threat from the right reactionary forces. curtail the facilities of students by the HRD ministry, UGC and JNU Administration a mandate was S<?UQht to ~nlea~h student struggles under the JNUSU banner privatisatlon and commercialistaion of higher education. The spate of 1nc1dents 1nvolvtng sexual harassment in this campus had made the demand for Gender Sensitisation Committee Against Sexual Harassment (G~CASH) central to our agenda. N:Jove all was the overwhelll_'ing concern to politi~lly and i~ologi?ally defeat ~e communal, ~st1est. ~nd patriarchal forces namely the RSS and ABVP within JNU when our polity and CIVIl soc1ety were falling Prey to the1~ deciSIVe agenda. We believe, through our activities over the past one year through the JNUSU, we have been able to do just1ce to the .
historic mandate of last year's JNUSU elections. .
The SFI-AISF seeks another historic mandate from the conscious and progressive student community of JNU, to cany forward our unfinished agenda, in the forthcoming JNUSU elections. The successful agitation of JNU students fought under the leadership of JNUSU ear1ier this semester, had secured substantial gains for the students community in terms of temporary hostel accommodation, acceptance of the recommendations of the working group for the setting up of the GSCASH and bringing back thR Admission Policy debate in the policy making bodies of JNU. .
The SFI-AISF is committed to continue the struggle in order to consolidate these concrete gains made by the JNU students. Replacing the present decadent Admission Policy by a Progressive Admission Policy which ensures adequate deprivation .
points for all candidates from socially, economically, regionally and gender wise deprived sections with a maximum of 20 .
deprivation points is high on our agenda. The Progressive Admission Policy will also ensure transparency in our Admission process and strengthening of the SFCs to ensure participation of students in the decision making at the Centre Level. The SFI-AISF is also .
committed to the Amendment of the JNUSU constitution to add a section in the Preamble in order to make the JNUSU formally .
committed to gender issues and lay down the modalities for the election of student representatives in the proposed GSCASH. The SFI-AISF will continue with the uncompromising war against privatisatlon of higher education and will fight for more hostels, more .
books and journals and better academic facilities for the students. The struggle against privatisation of higher education necessarily entails and alignment with all democratic struggles against imperialism both economic and cultural, to which the SFI-AISF is fully committed.The progressive and democratic traditions of JNU have been rocked severely, time and again by the ABVP In the recent .
past. Besides resorting to communal and castles! politics, they have repeatedly indulged in lumpenism and atrocities upon fellow .
students especially those belonging to the weaker sections. Realising that the culture of debate and discussion in JNU is by itself a .
check upon the propagation of their reactionary ideology they have deliberately tried to subvert and denigrate democratic .
foday, the ABVP finding themselves thoroughly exposed In front of theInstitutions from the JNUSU Council to the UGBM. .
students, are falling back upon a hate campaign against the Left. .
It is qUite natural for them because it Is the Left which has taken the Initiative to unite all the secular and democratic forces in our country against the Communal and anti-people BJP led Govt. and the RSS menace which is posing a grave threat to the unity and integrity of our country. The unprecedented price rise of vegetables is now being followed by that of salt selling at Rs.50 a Kg and pulses (which constitute the single protein diet for the poorer masses) thus pushing the majority of our people on the verge of starvation. Even this is not preventing this callous Govt. in taking further steps to llberalise our economy. The HRD Ministry is planning to reintroduce the Private Universities Bill as the Self Financing Universities Bill in the winter session of Par1iament (the Indian Express, Nov.1}, which is in total defiance to the strong opposition to the bill from the organised student movement. This bid to pursue pr1vatisation of higher education goes hand in hand with the determined bid by the RSS to 'Hinduise' it too. The RSS-run Vidya Bharati is now after English text books of the CBSE and want the poem 'The Highway .
by Alfred Noyer to be expunged on the grounds that they contain sexual undertones and do not conform with 'Indian Values'..
man'.
As for the objectionable lines, they are : 'One kiss my bonny sweetheart, I'm after a prize tonight'. (Hindustan Times, 1st Nov.). .
.
The BJP led Govt. Has basically opened avenues for the Sangh Parivar to interfere into the form and content of our education and .
introduce their fanatical agenda into it. This fascistic effort has to be fought tooth and nail. .
.
The SFi-AISF urges upon all students of JNU to realize the threat posed by the RSS-BJP to education in general and to .
higher education in particular and to unite and fight against it. The agenda of SFI-AISF provides a vision and direction to the left .
movement in JNU. A conscious effort to revitalise the JNUSU and intensify the struggle on a radical agenda is necessary to fight .
back the onslaught of the right reactionary forces. It is with this conviction that we seek an overwhelming mandate for the SFI-AISF .
in this year's JNUSU from all students of JNU. .
SFI-AISF CANDIDATES .
CENTRAL PANEL .
PRESIDENT VIJOO KRISHNANVICE-PRESIDENT SYED NASEER HUSSAIN GENERAL SECRETARY HIMANSHU JOINT SECRETARY ALBEENA SHAKIL .
SSS Councillors SIS Councillors SLL & CS Councillors .
Agha Md. Zafar Hussain.
.
Janaki S. Geeta Potsangbam .
Krlshnakumar S. Ginu Zacharla Oomen Birpal Singh Yadav .
Mahesh Gopalan M. Narasimhamurthy Zahldul Haque .
Pahi Saikia Parlmal Maya Sudhakar Ravlnder Singh Randhawa .
Surya Pratim Sari(ar Siba Sankar Mohanty Usha Kumari .
Sd/-Atulan Guha &Anil Mathewco-convenorsCentral Campaign Committee .
.
PaRCha - JNU - SFI - 1998 ID-67917
.
STUDENTS FEDERATION OF INDIA .
ALL INDIA STUDENTS FEDERATION .
!)1.11.1998 .
ONWARDS TO JNUSU ELECTLONS 1998 .
Friends, .
Last year the SFI-AISF sought a mandate from the student community to protect the democratic culture and_ academic In the backdrop of a systematic effort to.
environment of JNU which was under severe threat from the right reactionary forces. curtail the facilities of students by the HRD ministry, UGC and JNU Administration a mandate was S<?UQht to ~nlea~h student struggles under the JNUSU banner privatisatlon and commercialistaion of higher education. The spate of 1nc1dents 1nvolvtng sexual harassment in this campus had made the demand for Gender Sensitisation Committee Against Sexual Harassment (G~CASH) central to our agenda. N:Jove all was the overwhelll_'ing concern to politi~lly and i~ologi?ally defeat ~e communal, ~st1est. ~nd patriarchal forces namely the RSS and ABVP within JNU when our polity and CIVIl soc1ety were falling Prey to the1~ deciSIVe agenda. We believe, through our activities over the past one year through the JNUSU, we have been able to do just1ce to the .
historic mandate of last year's JNUSU elections. .
The SFI-AISF seeks another historic mandate from the conscious and progressive student community of JNU, to cany forward our unfinished agenda, in the forthcoming JNUSU elections. The successful agitation of JNU students fought under the leadership of JNUSU ear1ier this semester, had secured substantial gains for the students community in terms of temporary hostel accommodation, acceptance of the recommendations of the working group for the setting up of the GSCASH and bringing back thR Admission Policy debate in the policy making bodies of JNU. .
The SFI-AISF is committed to continue the struggle in order to consolidate these concrete gains made by the JNU students. Replacing the present decadent Admission Policy by a Progressive Admission Policy which ensures adequate deprivation .
points for all candidates from socially, economically, regionally and gender wise deprived sections with a maximum of 20 .
deprivation points is high on our agenda. The Progressive Admission Policy will also ensure transparency in our Admission process and strengthening of the SFCs to ensure participation of students in the decision making at the Centre Level. The SFI-AISF is also .
committed to the Amendment of the JNUSU constitution to add a section in the Preamble in order to make the JNUSU formally .
committed to gender issues and lay down the modalities for the election of student representatives in the proposed GSCASH. The SFI-AISF will continue with the uncompromising war against privatisatlon of higher education and will fight for more hostels, more .
books and journals and better academic facilities for the students. The struggle against privatisation of higher education necessarily entails and alignment with all democratic struggles against imperialism both economic and cultural, to which the SFI-AISF is fully committed.The progressive and democratic traditions of JNU have been rocked severely, time and again by the ABVP In the recent .
past. Besides resorting to communal and castles! politics, they have repeatedly indulged in lumpenism and atrocities upon fellow .
students especially those belonging to the weaker sections. Realising that the culture of debate and discussion in JNU is by itself a .
check upon the propagation of their reactionary ideology they have deliberately tried to subvert and denigrate democratic .
foday, the ABVP finding themselves thoroughly exposed In front of theInstitutions from the JNUSU Council to the UGBM. .
students, are falling back upon a hate campaign against the Left. .
It is qUite natural for them because it Is the Left which has taken the Initiative to unite all the secular and democratic forces in our country against the Communal and anti-people BJP led Govt. and the RSS menace which is posing a grave threat to the unity and integrity of our country. The unprecedented price rise of vegetables is now being followed by that of salt selling at Rs.50 a Kg and pulses (which constitute the single protein diet for the poorer masses) thus pushing the majority of our people on the verge of starvation. Even this is not preventing this callous Govt. in taking further steps to llberalise our economy. The HRD Ministry is planning to reintroduce the Private Universities Bill as the Self Financing Universities Bill in the winter session of Par1iament (the Indian Express, Nov.1}, which is in total defiance to the strong opposition to the bill from the organised student movement. This bid to pursue pr1vatisation of higher education goes hand in hand with the determined bid by the RSS to 'Hinduise' it too. The RSS-run Vidya Bharati is now after English text books of the CBSE and want the poem 'The Highway .
by Alfred Noyer to be expunged on the grounds that they contain sexual undertones and do not conform with 'Indian Values'..
man'.
As for the objectionable lines, they are : 'One kiss my bonny sweetheart, I'm after a prize tonight'. (Hindustan Times, 1st Nov.). .
.
The BJP led Govt. Has basically opened avenues for the Sangh Parivar to interfere into the form and content of our education and .
introduce their fanatical agenda into it. This fascistic effort has to be fought tooth and nail. .
.
The SFi-AISF urges upon all students of JNU to realize the threat posed by the RSS-BJP to education in general and to .
higher education in particular and to unite and fight against it. The agenda of SFI-AISF provides a vision and direction to the left .
movement in JNU. A conscious effort to revitalise the JNUSU and intensify the struggle on a radical agenda is necessary to fight .
back the onslaught of the right reactionary forces. It is with this conviction that we seek an overwhelming mandate for the SFI-AISF .
in this year's JNUSU from all students of JNU. .
SFI-AISF CANDIDATES .
CENTRAL PANEL .
PRESIDENT VIJOO KRISHNANVICE-PRESIDENT SYED NASEER HUSSAIN GENERAL SECRETARY HIMANSHU JOINT SECRETARY ALBEENA SHAKIL .
SSS Councillors SIS Councillors SLL & CS Councillors .
Agha Md. Zafar Hussain.
.
Janaki S. Geeta Potsangbam .
Krlshnakumar S. Ginu Zacharla Oomen Birpal Singh Yadav .
Mahesh Gopalan M. Narasimhamurthy Zahldul Haque .
Pahi Saikia Parlmal Maya Sudhakar Ravlnder Singh Randhawa .
Surya Pratim Sari(ar Siba Sankar Mohanty Usha Kumari .
Sd/-Atulan Guha &Anil Mathewco-convenorsCentral Campaign Committee .
.