PaRCha - JNU - All Organisations - 2009 ID-49692

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Let us build up amilitant students'movementI ' to challenge tile authoritarian administration, to Isolate the compromisingpseudo-left and todefeat Die communal fasclstsl .

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Destruction, destitutlon, displacement and death today are caJied 'Development'. It is a time when imperialism coupled .

with fascism is destroying lives/ livelihood and dignity of milllons of people, to safeguard the interests of a handful. It Is .

a time when the dream of an exploitation-fr:ee and just sodety is called a utopia! Yet hundreds and thousands of the .

most oppressed of the sodety have been fighting for that. Because in that 'utopia' alone lies ·the belief for life, the hope .

for the future. In the present sodal system1 the odds are heavily against the oppressed sections that constitute a vast .

majority of the population. The need therefore is to demolish this system that benefits a few at the cost of the many1 .

and to build a new society in its place through a radical social transformation. And this struggle must be fought from · .

wherever we are located. In this context of constant attack from all the powers-that~be, let us look at our own campus! .

JNU is not an island. The JNU administration represents the ruling class in the campus! We all know that this casteist-communal-patriarchal administration is up for selling JNU to the market forces. They have internalized the language and politics of World Bank, IMF etc. as well as the Tata-Birtas·. According to them1 JNU is being converted to a world class university'. And naturally for \resource generation purposes' they need to levy user charges for electricity1 hike the price of prospectus, rent out PSR for commercial use! And with the 'resources' which is nothing but tax-payer's money, we have the plasma lVs, the manicured flower pots, pointless signboards and hideous hoardings. 'World Class' therefore entails nothing but an external glitter, but with gradually privatized education and commercialized basic facilities/ denial of minimum wages and basic legal rights to the mazdoors on campus. And the decisions for all these have been taken arbitrarily, bypassing all concerned bodies of students, teachers and karamcharis. Such anti-student polides, going by the World Bank model again, has to be necessarily implemented in such an undemocratic manner, more in consultation with the market than with the representatives of university community. After all1 when the ruling dasses ask the people whether they want to get displaced to make way for an SEZ or not! .

The World Bank and its cronies have rightly identified students' movement as the 'biggest impediment to privatization of education'. And hence Lyngdoh came knocking! The Lyngdoh committee report is intrinsically linked to the larger designs of depoliticisation, fadlitating a complete privatization of basic and higher ed~cation. It is designed to crush consciously articula~ political dissent and opposition. The Committee states that students must be 'integrationist' and 'nationaHsts' at heart1 and student politics should be aimed at inculcating values of social and econoflliC 'developmenr. But imposition of.Lyngdoh Recommendations is a thinly veiled instrument for crushing the countrywide students~. movement that raises the genuine issues of the masses and also challenges the status.quo. With dauses which will have fa"r reaching consequences/ it aims to ensure administration's hold on the election process, confine student po.litics within the boundary of the institution, cutting it off from the larger political processes in the name·of 'unnecessary politidzation of student bodies'. The Supreme Court Stay on the JNtJ election process, which is free of money and musde power and kr1own for its democratic credentials/ prove beyond doubt that Lyngdoh is not meant to ellminate the drawbacks of Student politics; rather it is here to~fadlitate state's control and repression.In this,.

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Lyngdoh is no different in nature from ?I vast range of draconian laws imposed by the state on the pe~ple from above, be it MISA, TADA1 POTA; MCOCA, UAPA, AFSPA1 NSA, etc to name a few. The ~nl'( difference is that while these draconian laws target and suppress the struggling masses, Lyngd~h aims to clamp down on the students and the youth. .

And when feudalism and the market ties a k~ot, social justice becomes.a prime target. Measures like Lyngdoh are resorted to by the state to quell the simmering discontent among the large majority of students today/ who .

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is facing injustice, discrimination and excl~slon at every step. Can we expect social justice from a state whose very fabric historically has bee..n woven with brahminicaJ ideology? The recent legislatkmof 27°/o OBC reservation was ~ot a 'gift' from Manmohan and Co. It Is an outcome if long battles that thousands of people for several decades have fought and even given their lives for. It was a movement that forced the state to recognize a right which the casteist society denied for centuries. t-fowever, just the passing of legislations don't really mean their implementation. The casteist authorities always seek to take away with~pne hand what they were forced to grant with the other. JNU again provides a perfect example of this! 1ast vear ib April. JNU su:Jmjnjstration assured JNUSU that 27o/~ rese~atio.ns for OBC st~deot would be jmplcmented at one ao. However jt unllaterallv decided later that OBC reservation Will be tmple~ented in a .

J!""$, The excuse was tnfrastructural in~dequacy. Making OBC reservation conditional on seat-mcrease signified reseMng the seats for upper caste students. Even the.,stlpulated 12°/o reserve~ seats for the first y~ar of ilri.plementa,tion Wi$5 not fulfilled. While.around 22o/o OBC studenJ:s joined the camp~s wtthout reservation! w1th .~emefrt:atioqof.r*'Yation in phased manner, a meag~r 9.95% os.c students )omed last year. T~us, the . adminbib._:_defeated~the reservation policy even after·~ was mad71nto a law: Same hap~n~d...wtth PH re,servattons as well. Moreover,·the admiDI5batloo took a unilateral qeqsion of dom9.awa.y w1th pro~ress1ve offer-~ystem and. iOitiated a 'wajtiog-list' system for admissions. It was ,dear that the wa1ting-llst system 1s not a conduqve system 1n a .

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. _ . ............ ~Ga u~r Rosnton on their own stand on their ~" un r-eo L!>. JJ The JNUSU office bearer:;s alsp state their positiQn on th~ conaitionality of the nistration that such an "offence" (as on Feb 25) np t be repeated in~th~ future. Vibha, PSU-JNU .

Sd/-Divya, PSU-JNU .

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