PaRCha - JNU - AISA - 2001 ID-1699
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Shahadat Saptah, .
23-315\ March .
23.3.01 .
ALL INDIA STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION (AISA> .
From Bhagat Singh To Chandrashekhar, The Legacy lives On! .
Yes Jam ambitious...my ambition is to live like Che and die like Bhagat Singh! .
' . -Chandrashekhar, in response to a question in presidential debate. .
In March 1997, the JNU communjty realised that these were not empty words of a presidential candidate but the truth. .
of the CPI (ML). Even as he spurned a career m Delht, he was well aware of the kind of challenges and adversaries he.
The JNU president for two years, at the end of.his stin~ in JNU, opted for a return t? Siwan, Bihar as a fuJI time activist .
would be pitted against in Siwan. The neo-feuda1 force~ led b~ ~he local bosses of RJD, The n~orious gangster MP. .
Shahabuddin had already eliminated more than 70 leadmg actlvtsts and supporters of the CPI(ML). And yet Chandu .
chose to go back. Within days of his return, the courage of his conviction and zeaJ began to threaten the mafia-.
.
March, 1997, w~ile addressing a street comer meeting, camp~gning against the spate of politician nexus. On 31 51 .
scams, crimes and massacres under Laloo s rule, Chandrashek.har and Com. Shyamnaram Yadav, were felled by a .
shower ofcowardly bullets. .
In the 50th year of country's Independence, Chandu and Shyamnarain embraced martyrdom, while raising their voice .
against the oppression of the toiling masses. .
but as he ~ai~ i~ a letter to his ~other, he soon .
Chandrasbekhar: A True Patriot Of Our Times , .
.
Initially, Chandrashekhar joined the ~ational Defenc.e Aca~e~y~A).
realized that the war he wanted to ftght was not With India s ne1ghbours, but withm tts borders, agamst the cruelly .
oppressive social and politjcal order. An~ so, he l~ft th~ NDA. . . .
Drawn to Marxism as a philosophy of hfe and hberatton, he then JOined the CPI and was a state level leader of the .
AISF, but he was thoroughly disil~usioned by the fonnalis:n and oppo~nismo~ the ~o:ncial Left', and began to plan .
for a career. In JNU, the revolutiOnary energy of AISA S powerful InterventiOn agamst communal fascism in the .
1990's drew him into activism ag~in; the fire that the stagnant C:PI had almost smothered was once again fanned up. .
Chandu, the revolutionary comrrutted to the struggles of Indtan peoples, was the product of the revolutionary .
.
ascendance of AISA whose waves swept him to the post of JNUSU president twice in succession. .
Chandrashekhar's martyrdom and his resolve to build a new India stand him alongside Bhagat Singh as true symbols .
of genuine nationalism. .
What Will Define Nationalism: Fascism or Democratic Struggles .
Can the nation be defined and united by a strong rrUiitaristic state or a militarized religion of the Hindutva variety? Or .
against the ruling powers who are brokering away national assets like BALCO to the imperialist forces. Will it be I will nationalism be a democratic unity of all those struggling peoples who are at the receiving end of imperialism. .
defined by Thackerays and Advanis, or by people's heroes like Bhagat Singh and Chandrashekhar. .
Today, the Hindu Right which had stayed away from the freedom struggle on the plea that Hindus need to conserve their energies to fight the 'internal enemies like Muslims' later, is conspiring to appropriate the legacy of Bhagat Singh. A recent RSS pamphlet labels Rajguru and Sukhdev as swyamsevaks while the portrajt of Bhagat Singh adorned Advani's Ratb. They would have us believe that Bhagat Singh was crusading for establishing a Hindu Rashtra. .
Nothing could have been more repugnant to the author of Why I am an Atheist. His dream was not that of a Hindu .
Rashtra but the revolution of the toiling people. In a message to the Third Communist International, he wrote: .
We salute all those who are spreading the ideas ofLenin....we raise our voice along with that ofthe .
International workers movement. The victory ofthe proletariat is certain as is the defeat ofcapitalism..
~ While BJP uses cultural nationalism to mask the selling-off of national economic sovereignty, the anti-imperialist .
legacy of Bhagat Singh necessarily confronts and questions it. Today, seventy years after Bhagat Singh and his .
comrades attained martyrdom, the need to fight the imperialist offensive is as urgent. .
.
Long Live the Memory ofmartyred revolutionaries! .
Long Live the struggle against the imperialists and their brokers/! .
.
Attend Public Meeting tonight .
Contending Models of Nationalism : Bhagat Singh's Legacy Interrogates .
Hindutva .
.
Speakers: Imtiaz Ahmed and Pranay Krishna Sutlej Mess, 9:30pm Dhrub Manisha ·· .
· Genera] Secretary, AISA. JNU. President, _AISA, JNU. .
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... 'l. .
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PaRCha - JNU - AISA - 2001 ID-1699
.
.
Shahadat Saptah, .
23-315\ March .
23.3.01 .
ALL INDIA STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION (AISA> .
From Bhagat Singh To Chandrashekhar, The Legacy lives On! .
Yes Jam ambitious...my ambition is to live like Che and die like Bhagat Singh! .
' . -Chandrashekhar, in response to a question in presidential debate. .
In March 1997, the JNU communjty realised that these were not empty words of a presidential candidate but the truth. .
of the CPI (ML). Even as he spurned a career m Delht, he was well aware of the kind of challenges and adversaries he.
The JNU president for two years, at the end of.his stin~ in JNU, opted for a return t? Siwan, Bihar as a fuJI time activist .
would be pitted against in Siwan. The neo-feuda1 force~ led b~ ~he local bosses of RJD, The n~orious gangster MP. .
Shahabuddin had already eliminated more than 70 leadmg actlvtsts and supporters of the CPI(ML). And yet Chandu .
chose to go back. Within days of his return, the courage of his conviction and zeaJ began to threaten the mafia-.
.
March, 1997, w~ile addressing a street comer meeting, camp~gning against the spate of politician nexus. On 31 51 .
scams, crimes and massacres under Laloo s rule, Chandrashek.har and Com. Shyamnaram Yadav, were felled by a .
shower ofcowardly bullets. .
In the 50th year of country's Independence, Chandu and Shyamnarain embraced martyrdom, while raising their voice .
against the oppression of the toiling masses. .
but as he ~ai~ i~ a letter to his ~other, he soon .
Chandrasbekhar: A True Patriot Of Our Times , .
.
Initially, Chandrashekhar joined the ~ational Defenc.e Aca~e~y~A).
realized that the war he wanted to ftght was not With India s ne1ghbours, but withm tts borders, agamst the cruelly .
oppressive social and politjcal order. An~ so, he l~ft th~ NDA. . . .
Drawn to Marxism as a philosophy of hfe and hberatton, he then JOined the CPI and was a state level leader of the .
AISF, but he was thoroughly disil~usioned by the fonnalis:n and oppo~nismo~ the ~o:ncial Left', and began to plan .
for a career. In JNU, the revolutiOnary energy of AISA S powerful InterventiOn agamst communal fascism in the .
1990's drew him into activism ag~in; the fire that the stagnant C:PI had almost smothered was once again fanned up. .
Chandu, the revolutionary comrrutted to the struggles of Indtan peoples, was the product of the revolutionary .
.
ascendance of AISA whose waves swept him to the post of JNUSU president twice in succession. .
Chandrashekhar's martyrdom and his resolve to build a new India stand him alongside Bhagat Singh as true symbols .
of genuine nationalism. .
What Will Define Nationalism: Fascism or Democratic Struggles .
Can the nation be defined and united by a strong rrUiitaristic state or a militarized religion of the Hindutva variety? Or .
against the ruling powers who are brokering away national assets like BALCO to the imperialist forces. Will it be I will nationalism be a democratic unity of all those struggling peoples who are at the receiving end of imperialism. .
defined by Thackerays and Advanis, or by people's heroes like Bhagat Singh and Chandrashekhar. .
Today, the Hindu Right which had stayed away from the freedom struggle on the plea that Hindus need to conserve their energies to fight the 'internal enemies like Muslims' later, is conspiring to appropriate the legacy of Bhagat Singh. A recent RSS pamphlet labels Rajguru and Sukhdev as swyamsevaks while the portrajt of Bhagat Singh adorned Advani's Ratb. They would have us believe that Bhagat Singh was crusading for establishing a Hindu Rashtra. .
Nothing could have been more repugnant to the author of Why I am an Atheist. His dream was not that of a Hindu .
Rashtra but the revolution of the toiling people. In a message to the Third Communist International, he wrote: .
We salute all those who are spreading the ideas ofLenin....we raise our voice along with that ofthe .
International workers movement. The victory ofthe proletariat is certain as is the defeat ofcapitalism..
~ While BJP uses cultural nationalism to mask the selling-off of national economic sovereignty, the anti-imperialist .
legacy of Bhagat Singh necessarily confronts and questions it. Today, seventy years after Bhagat Singh and his .
comrades attained martyrdom, the need to fight the imperialist offensive is as urgent. .
.
Long Live the Memory ofmartyred revolutionaries! .
Long Live the struggle against the imperialists and their brokers/! .
.
Attend Public Meeting tonight .
Contending Models of Nationalism : Bhagat Singh's Legacy Interrogates .
Hindutva .
.
Speakers: Imtiaz Ahmed and Pranay Krishna Sutlej Mess, 9:30pm Dhrub Manisha ·· .
· Genera] Secretary, AISA. JNU. President, _AISA, JNU. .
.. ~ .
.
. .
!".' .
" .
... 'l. .
\.. .
' .
.