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corporatization. They stood by the administration in the initiative of organizing a massive instant protest at Jantar crackdowns on students, ran dubious campaigns against Mantar on 27 December 2010 continuing the movement until proper implementation of OBC reservation and reducedhis release. ' politics to one of slander and personalized attacks. .
JNUSU Election and the Struggle Against the We have seen this.
Lyngdoh Recommendations : When they never'NOrked to restore the deprivation points Throughout the protracted struggle against LyAgdoh, AISA in JNU'sadmission, which stood scrapped during 1983-.
has played a leading role-whether it is mobilizing students, 93, despite the fact that it was SFI whic;h led JNUS~s or public opinion, or funds. This struggle has been fought for most ofthe terms during this period against all odds. The casteist and anti-democratic Youth for Equality (XFE) has openly defied JNU's cherished processes When they championed the opening ofthe Nestle outlet in this campus in 2004-05 and defended it till the last, ofdemocratic decision-making-they refused to participate in UGBMs, and instead routinely ran to the JNU When they betrayed the struggle for minimum wages in .
2006-07 by demanding punitive action on protestingadministration and to the Supreme Court to scuttle campus democracy at every stage. students and striking workers, SFI, which has a national position in favour of the In their total abstinence from the struggle for the correct Lyngdoh committee report, boycotted several ofJSC's implementation of OBC reservations and against the .
I Initiatives -like the national convention for campus illegal cut-off criterion imposed by the JNU democracy and the Night Vigil in 2009. In 2010, SFlied an Administration, and .
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opportunist bandwagon of forces demanding that we should By their silence on the recent moves ofthe government.
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defy the SC stay order. Had this position not been defeated to further commercialize and privatize education..
f at a UGBM held in February 2010, our ongoing case against~ Like its parent party CPI(M), which has been driven out.
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the Lyngdoh recommendations in the SC would have been of power in West Bengal and Kerala as a result of Singurlj severely weakened. The interim application submitted after and Nandigram and steady compromises on the issues of .
the Feb 2010 UGBM accompanied by the negotiations with the day, SFI too has no moral authority leftto talkabout.
I .
Amicus Curie became the basis for the 8 Dec 2011 SC order, any substantial issues ofpolitics and student interests. .
1. paving the way for the present JNUSU elections. As a result, most of their time is engaged in vitriolic, ~ And over the past few months, we have also seen so personalized slander againstAISA and its activists. In .
~ called "democratic" and "radical" forces like DSU also fact, far from confronting the right-wing and administrative J undermining the platfonn ofthe UGBM by shamefully refusing assaults, it is anti-AISAism which has become the sole .
j. to accept UGBM mandates. They are desperate to create a plank ofSFI's politics. .
{ "more radical thatthou" ELECTION AGENDA for themselves! .
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DSU, which supports the anarchist-militarist Maoist In the process, DSU simply refused to acknowledge the 'radical' phrase-mongering.
stream is only interested in empty .
adverse impact of a long-term suspension of JNUSU and and mindless targeting ofAISA by hook orcrook, desperate elected student representation. to prove itself 'more radical than thou'. .
Other orga~izations It is indeed interesting, that both these so-called .
l Where AISA has sought to articulate and fight for a 'left' organistions-SFI and DSU-far from engaging in .
radical, pro-student, pro-people vision of politics on this or enriching any creative democratic politics, are .
.
campus, there exist other student groups with political obsessed with anti-AISA-ism in all theirstances. Their 'cut-off' struggle.
agendas quite removed from ours. hostile role against AISA for years on the Take theABVP. Its activists have repeatedly engaged in for proper implementation of OBC reservation is the one of .
the most recent examples of their blind anti-AISA obsession. acts of violence, lumpenism, and venomous communal campaigns.They have shown a complete absence of concern Challenges Ahead for genuine student issues. They have openly and We are right now at a juncture when .the elected JNUSU wholeheartedly supported the Sangh Parivar's pogrom of must ensure broader mobilisation against Lyngdoh .
terror, rape, and have tried to turn JNU into a laboratory for .
recommendations and in defenceof campus democracy. For a their hate campaigns against Muslims. long time, we have been demanding re,duction of weightaae YFE was born in the wake of OBC reservations with the of viva marks in JNU admission process, to stan the possibifity .
single point agenda to spread casteist frenzy against social of discrimination and subjective biases. Also ensuring hostel justice. Subsequently, with the implementation of OBC facilities, enhancement of MCM and other scholarships/ fellowships, resisting fee hikes and commercialisation drives.
reservation, most of its cadres have returned to their original .
home ofABVP. But given its deeply reactionary character, -several such struggles lay ahead. .
YFE contjnues to invent one devious means orthe other to By resisting attacks, by imagining new futures, and .
scuttle EVERY democratic aspiration and institution of theI JNU student community, be it UGBM or JNUSU election. institutionalizing progressive changes, A/SA has evolved and j articulated aradical and creative vision ofpoliticsin JNU.It has The NSUI generally remains silent and absent, played a vanguard role in addressing the burning questions ofour occasionally arousing itself to welcome Congress leaders time. We need to build a strong, robust resistance to assaults on or defend the UPA Government's assault on lives and student rights and campus democracy; we need to defendthe spirit livelihoods. ofJNUSU which is committedto struggle for a secular; democratic, On this campus and beyond, SFI has become a .
spokesperson for the politics of displacement and socially-inclusive and gender-sensitive JNU andsociety at largea. Sandeep Saurav, Gen.Secy., AISA,JNU.
Akbar, President, AISA, JNU .
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PaRCha - JNU - All Organisations - 2011 ID-52013
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corporatization. They stood by the administration in the initiative of organizing a massive instant protest at Jantar crackdowns on students, ran dubious campaigns against Mantar on 27 December 2010 continuing the movement until proper implementation of OBC reservation and reducedhis release. ' politics to one of slander and personalized attacks. .
JNUSU Election and the Struggle Against the We have seen this.
Lyngdoh Recommendations : When they never'NOrked to restore the deprivation points Throughout the protracted struggle against LyAgdoh, AISA in JNU'sadmission, which stood scrapped during 1983-.
has played a leading role-whether it is mobilizing students, 93, despite the fact that it was SFI whic;h led JNUS~s or public opinion, or funds. This struggle has been fought for most ofthe terms during this period against all odds. The casteist and anti-democratic Youth for Equality (XFE) has openly defied JNU's cherished processes When they championed the opening ofthe Nestle outlet in this campus in 2004-05 and defended it till the last, ofdemocratic decision-making-they refused to participate in UGBMs, and instead routinely ran to the JNU When they betrayed the struggle for minimum wages in .
2006-07 by demanding punitive action on protestingadministration and to the Supreme Court to scuttle campus democracy at every stage. students and striking workers, SFI, which has a national position in favour of the In their total abstinence from the struggle for the correct Lyngdoh committee report, boycotted several ofJSC's implementation of OBC reservations and against the .
I Initiatives -like the national convention for campus illegal cut-off criterion imposed by the JNU democracy and the Night Vigil in 2009. In 2010, SFlied an Administration, and .
.
opportunist bandwagon of forces demanding that we should By their silence on the recent moves ofthe government.
' .
defy the SC stay order. Had this position not been defeated to further commercialize and privatize education..
f at a UGBM held in February 2010, our ongoing case against~ Like its parent party CPI(M), which has been driven out.
.
the Lyngdoh recommendations in the SC would have been of power in West Bengal and Kerala as a result of Singurlj severely weakened. The interim application submitted after and Nandigram and steady compromises on the issues of .
the Feb 2010 UGBM accompanied by the negotiations with the day, SFI too has no moral authority leftto talkabout.
I .
Amicus Curie became the basis for the 8 Dec 2011 SC order, any substantial issues ofpolitics and student interests. .
1. paving the way for the present JNUSU elections. As a result, most of their time is engaged in vitriolic, ~ And over the past few months, we have also seen so personalized slander againstAISA and its activists. In .
~ called "democratic" and "radical" forces like DSU also fact, far from confronting the right-wing and administrative J undermining the platfonn ofthe UGBM by shamefully refusing assaults, it is anti-AISAism which has become the sole .
j. to accept UGBM mandates. They are desperate to create a plank ofSFI's politics. .
{ "more radical thatthou" ELECTION AGENDA for themselves! .
.
DSU, which supports the anarchist-militarist Maoist In the process, DSU simply refused to acknowledge the 'radical' phrase-mongering.
stream is only interested in empty .
adverse impact of a long-term suspension of JNUSU and and mindless targeting ofAISA by hook orcrook, desperate elected student representation. to prove itself 'more radical than thou'. .
Other orga~izations It is indeed interesting, that both these so-called .
l Where AISA has sought to articulate and fight for a 'left' organistions-SFI and DSU-far from engaging in .
radical, pro-student, pro-people vision of politics on this or enriching any creative democratic politics, are .
.
campus, there exist other student groups with political obsessed with anti-AISA-ism in all theirstances. Their 'cut-off' struggle.
agendas quite removed from ours. hostile role against AISA for years on the Take theABVP. Its activists have repeatedly engaged in for proper implementation of OBC reservation is the one of .
the most recent examples of their blind anti-AISA obsession. acts of violence, lumpenism, and venomous communal campaigns.They have shown a complete absence of concern Challenges Ahead for genuine student issues. They have openly and We are right now at a juncture when .the elected JNUSU wholeheartedly supported the Sangh Parivar's pogrom of must ensure broader mobilisation against Lyngdoh .
terror, rape, and have tried to turn JNU into a laboratory for .
recommendations and in defenceof campus democracy. For a their hate campaigns against Muslims. long time, we have been demanding re,duction of weightaae YFE was born in the wake of OBC reservations with the of viva marks in JNU admission process, to stan the possibifity .
single point agenda to spread casteist frenzy against social of discrimination and subjective biases. Also ensuring hostel justice. Subsequently, with the implementation of OBC facilities, enhancement of MCM and other scholarships/ fellowships, resisting fee hikes and commercialisation drives.
reservation, most of its cadres have returned to their original .
home ofABVP. But given its deeply reactionary character, -several such struggles lay ahead. .
YFE contjnues to invent one devious means orthe other to By resisting attacks, by imagining new futures, and .
scuttle EVERY democratic aspiration and institution of theI JNU student community, be it UGBM or JNUSU election. institutionalizing progressive changes, A/SA has evolved and j articulated aradical and creative vision ofpoliticsin JNU.It has The NSUI generally remains silent and absent, played a vanguard role in addressing the burning questions ofour occasionally arousing itself to welcome Congress leaders time. We need to build a strong, robust resistance to assaults on or defend the UPA Government's assault on lives and student rights and campus democracy; we need to defendthe spirit livelihoods. ofJNUSU which is committedto struggle for a secular; democratic, On this campus and beyond, SFI has become a .
spokesperson for the politics of displacement and socially-inclusive and gender-sensitive JNU andsociety at largea. Sandeep Saurav, Gen.Secy., AISA,JNU.
Akbar, President, AISA, JNU .
.