PaRCha - JNU - Manifestos Convenor Reports - 2014 ID-66583
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National Situation .
In our own country, we are live in times marked by an increase in aggressive communalism, corporate loot and corru suppression of students' rights on campuses and denial of basic facilities, assaults on democratic rights and civil liberties, thl suppression of workers' struggles and people's movements and also a physical and ideological offensive on women's freedom. Riding on the wave of mass anger against price rise, corruption and corporate loot of Congress rule, communal fascist forces led by BJP-RSS have come to power with a huge majority promising ' acche din'. However, in just a few months of the NDA rule, the reality of this much-touted acche din has already come to the fore. Railway fares have been enormously hiked (a move which was incidentally opposed by Modi when he was aspiring to become the Prime Minister) thus leading to an overall hike in consumer prices, prices of basic commodities are still skyrocketing, and moreover the NDA has carried forward and even accelerated several of UPA's disastrous economic policies such as large-scale FDI in various sectors including insurance and .
defence. .
Besides, the communal fascist forces have already launched their vitriolic campaign of hate and division across the country. The stage was set when one accused for instigating riots in UP, was 'rewarded' with a Ministerial post in the Union cabinet and soon after, a young Muslim software engineer was murdered in Pune, a Muslim caterer was forced to break his fast during roza by elected MPs belonging to the Shiv Sena, RSS ideologues are being given a free reign to claim that all Indians are 'Hindus', and now the entire state of UP is being carefully brought under the sway of a communal frenzy, even well-known public figures such as Sania Mirza are being forced to 'prove' their 'nationality'. BJP-RSS' pet project of saffronising education started with a big bang with the appointment of Y Sudarshan Rao, as the head of the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) who holds that the caste system worked well in ancient times, and one Dinanath Batra's outlandish communal bigoted books being made compulsory supplementary readings in 42,000 govt schools of Guajarat. .
From the UPA to the NDA, so-called 'elected representatives' in ruling class regimes take dictation from corporate houses and their masters in the World Bank and the IMF. Democratically elected governments openly defend corporate profiteering and resort to brutal state repression in POSCO, Manesar, Nagri, Nandigram, Koodankulam, Jagatsinghpur and elsewhere. And all protest-whether it is against mindless nuclearisation or against GM crops, against forcible land acquisition or against large dams -is being termed as 'anti-national' not just by the UPA, but by the NDA too. If the Congress regime was embroiled in several cases of corruption and corporate loot, from the coal scam, CWG, ZG, KG Basin to Adarsh, the solar scam in Kerala etc, .
various NDA governments too have been implicated in massive scams such as the massive illegal mining in Bellary and the Vyapam scam in Madhya Pradesh . If the Congress refused to take steps to improve the institutional response to rape and sexual violence, the NDA continues to appoint rape accused as Ministers in senior positions of power. The NDA has moreover shown all indications in its first budget of carrying forward and intensifying the UPA's legacy of "fund-cuts" for social welfare schemes such as NREGA and public health care, and for education . .
However, across the country, peoples' movements are also challenging land acquisition and state-sponsored corporate land grab -militantly resisting state repression to defend their lives and livelihoods in the mineral-rich areas of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Odisha, in Koodankulam1 Jaitapur and Fatehabad, and from Uttarakhand in the north to Kathikudam and Arippa in Kerala. And as peasants, tribals and poor protest against corporate takeover of their land, workers are also demanding their rights and protesting against corporate greed. .
Whether it is the SEZ Act (passed with the help of CPI-CPI(M) in 2005), or the Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement .
Bill (LARR)1 legislations are b e in0 pussed in order to facilitate, legalise and protect the rc 0imc of corportc lnd-grb cmpaign in .
the country. The present government is also all set to further ease the path for forcible land grab, override environmental concerns, opening up of SEZs, and 'reforming' labor laws to the detriment of working class and furthering corporate exploitation and loot. Neo-liberal economic policies implemented by both the UPA as well as the NDA (FDI, privatization, exclusionary targeting based on dubious poverty estimates, steady dismantling of PDS and a shift to 'cash transfers' for instance) are taking their toll in the form of reducing employment, rampant contractualisation, drastic fall in wage share and steady rise .
in farmer suicides. .
The UPA had brought in a slew of policies to further restrict access to affordable and quality education: the FYUP in Delhi University, the Foreign University Bill and the Educational Tribunal bill for instance. As a result of massive student unrest and a sustained campaign by students and teachers in DU, the govt was forced to roll back the FYUP. However, the rest of the policy assaults on the very idea of an inclusive and affordable education are very much on the anvil. The NDA for instance has till now refused to get rid of the elitist CSAT pattern in the UPSC exam, neither is it heeding to the democratic demand of ending the exclusion of classical and 'foreign languages' including Arabic and Persian, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Russian etc as optionals in the UPSC exam. The Lyngdoh committee recommendations -which clearly have been designed not to counter money and muscle power but to weaken the organized student movement enjoys the support of ruling class .
~o\lemments o~ a\\ nues, wnetner tne UPI\ m tne NOI\. .
Violation of democratic rights and aspirations: The state of Telangana was finally formed after a protracted struggle by the students, workers and farmers of the region. The movement for a separate Gorkhaland has also intensified -which was one of .
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PaRCha - JNU - Manifestos Convenor Reports - 2014 ID-66583
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National Situation .
In our own country, we are live in times marked by an increase in aggressive communalism, corporate loot and corru suppression of students' rights on campuses and denial of basic facilities, assaults on democratic rights and civil liberties, thl suppression of workers' struggles and people's movements and also a physical and ideological offensive on women's freedom. Riding on the wave of mass anger against price rise, corruption and corporate loot of Congress rule, communal fascist forces led by BJP-RSS have come to power with a huge majority promising ' acche din'. However, in just a few months of the NDA rule, the reality of this much-touted acche din has already come to the fore. Railway fares have been enormously hiked (a move which was incidentally opposed by Modi when he was aspiring to become the Prime Minister) thus leading to an overall hike in consumer prices, prices of basic commodities are still skyrocketing, and moreover the NDA has carried forward and even accelerated several of UPA's disastrous economic policies such as large-scale FDI in various sectors including insurance and .
defence. .
Besides, the communal fascist forces have already launched their vitriolic campaign of hate and division across the country. The stage was set when one accused for instigating riots in UP, was 'rewarded' with a Ministerial post in the Union cabinet and soon after, a young Muslim software engineer was murdered in Pune, a Muslim caterer was forced to break his fast during roza by elected MPs belonging to the Shiv Sena, RSS ideologues are being given a free reign to claim that all Indians are 'Hindus', and now the entire state of UP is being carefully brought under the sway of a communal frenzy, even well-known public figures such as Sania Mirza are being forced to 'prove' their 'nationality'. BJP-RSS' pet project of saffronising education started with a big bang with the appointment of Y Sudarshan Rao, as the head of the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) who holds that the caste system worked well in ancient times, and one Dinanath Batra's outlandish communal bigoted books being made compulsory supplementary readings in 42,000 govt schools of Guajarat. .
From the UPA to the NDA, so-called 'elected representatives' in ruling class regimes take dictation from corporate houses and their masters in the World Bank and the IMF. Democratically elected governments openly defend corporate profiteering and resort to brutal state repression in POSCO, Manesar, Nagri, Nandigram, Koodankulam, Jagatsinghpur and elsewhere. And all protest-whether it is against mindless nuclearisation or against GM crops, against forcible land acquisition or against large dams -is being termed as 'anti-national' not just by the UPA, but by the NDA too. If the Congress regime was embroiled in several cases of corruption and corporate loot, from the coal scam, CWG, ZG, KG Basin to Adarsh, the solar scam in Kerala etc, .
various NDA governments too have been implicated in massive scams such as the massive illegal mining in Bellary and the Vyapam scam in Madhya Pradesh . If the Congress refused to take steps to improve the institutional response to rape and sexual violence, the NDA continues to appoint rape accused as Ministers in senior positions of power. The NDA has moreover shown all indications in its first budget of carrying forward and intensifying the UPA's legacy of "fund-cuts" for social welfare schemes such as NREGA and public health care, and for education . .
However, across the country, peoples' movements are also challenging land acquisition and state-sponsored corporate land grab -militantly resisting state repression to defend their lives and livelihoods in the mineral-rich areas of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Odisha, in Koodankulam1 Jaitapur and Fatehabad, and from Uttarakhand in the north to Kathikudam and Arippa in Kerala. And as peasants, tribals and poor protest against corporate takeover of their land, workers are also demanding their rights and protesting against corporate greed. .
Whether it is the SEZ Act (passed with the help of CPI-CPI(M) in 2005), or the Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement .
Bill (LARR)1 legislations are b e in0 pussed in order to facilitate, legalise and protect the rc 0imc of corportc lnd-grb cmpaign in .
the country. The present government is also all set to further ease the path for forcible land grab, override environmental concerns, opening up of SEZs, and 'reforming' labor laws to the detriment of working class and furthering corporate exploitation and loot. Neo-liberal economic policies implemented by both the UPA as well as the NDA (FDI, privatization, exclusionary targeting based on dubious poverty estimates, steady dismantling of PDS and a shift to 'cash transfers' for instance) are taking their toll in the form of reducing employment, rampant contractualisation, drastic fall in wage share and steady rise .
in farmer suicides. .
The UPA had brought in a slew of policies to further restrict access to affordable and quality education: the FYUP in Delhi University, the Foreign University Bill and the Educational Tribunal bill for instance. As a result of massive student unrest and a sustained campaign by students and teachers in DU, the govt was forced to roll back the FYUP. However, the rest of the policy assaults on the very idea of an inclusive and affordable education are very much on the anvil. The NDA for instance has till now refused to get rid of the elitist CSAT pattern in the UPSC exam, neither is it heeding to the democratic demand of ending the exclusion of classical and 'foreign languages' including Arabic and Persian, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Russian etc as optionals in the UPSC exam. The Lyngdoh committee recommendations -which clearly have been designed not to counter money and muscle power but to weaken the organized student movement enjoys the support of ruling class .
~o\lemments o~ a\\ nues, wnetner tne UPI\ m tne NOI\. .
Violation of democratic rights and aspirations: The state of Telangana was finally formed after a protracted struggle by the students, workers and farmers of the region. The movement for a separate Gorkhaland has also intensified -which was one of .
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