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Panelists discuss the role of accountability journalism following the 2016 presidential election. From L to R: Evan Smith, McKay Coppins, Sopan Deb, Clara Jeffery and Matt K. Lewis. (Mary Kang/Knight Center)
A las 11:00 a.m. el Martes 1o de Marzo, el Reporte “Percepciones de la Comunidad sobre la Falta de Ética Policiaca” de la Comisión del Oeste de Baltimore será presentado durante una Conferencia de Prensa organizada por la Coalición para la Justicia, Seguridad y Empleo. La emisión del reporte ocurre justo el día de las audiencias del Comité de Procesos Judiciales del Senado sobre legislación relativa a la rendición de cuentas policiaca.
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IS THE SPECTRE OF SFI-JNU HAUNTING THE AISA? .
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Instead of clarifying and responding to the criticisms of the AISA-Ied JNUSU for its non-perfonnance, the AISA has chosen to launch a diatribe against the SFI-JNU through its pamphlet dated 27.08.2012. Th1s is typical of the AISA, which has mastered the art of evading accountability vis-a-vis the functioning of the JNUSU by viciously attacking those who pose uncomfortable questions before them. .
ZERO ACHIEVEMENT UNION What needs to be noted is that the AISA has absolutely no answers to provide as far as the whole range of student issues is concerned: .
On Social Inclusion: (a) Why was the JNUSU agitation in March 2012 withdrawn without getting a concrete assurance from the JNU administration regarding the reduction of the viva voce marks in MPhil entrance for 2012? Why did the AISA conceal from the students that it had agreed in the AC meeting on 19th March that the viva-voce weightage issue will be discussed only in the next AC meeting in November 2012? Why did the JNUSU fail to ensure fulfilment of SC/ST/OBC/PH reservation in 2012 admissions? (b) In view of the h1gh drop-out rates, especially in SL, why couldn't the JNUSU ensure that remedial classes are started and text books provided in vernacular languages? (c) Why couldn't the amount of the MCM scholarships be enhanced and the duration of the non-NET UGC scholarship for PhD students extended? (d) Why were the eligibility cnteria for OBC students not reduced and why discrimination continues vis-a-v1s allotting hostels to OBC students? .
(e) Why mandated PH reservation has not been fulfilled this year and no rnitiative was undertaken to institute scholarships on the lines of RGNF for PH students? (Q Why was the list of recognised Madarsas el1gible for JNU admissions not expanded? Why nothing has been done to get the relevant recommendations of Ranganath Mishra and Sachar Committee Implemented m JNU despite the proportion of Muslim minonty students decreasing over time? .
On Infrastructure Expansion and Students Facilities: (a) Why did the JNUSU fail to raise the issue of construction of new hostels despite a senous hostel crisis afflicting the students? (b) Why no initiatives were taken to improve the facilities in the health centre, ensuring internet facility in hostels and improving transport facilities, like Metro-feeder buses? (c) Why have cultural club elections not taken place till date and most sports clubs are lying defunct? Why couldn't the annual festivals like Kallal and Summit be organized this year? (d) What has the JNUSU done to pressurize the JNU .
administration to fill up vacant teaching posts and stop contractualisation of non-teaching staff? .
On Campus Democracy: (a) How many elected student representatives from other universities participated in the "national" convention organised by the JNUSU on the Lyngdoh Committee recommendations? How many JNU students participated in the Convention? (b) Why did the JNUSU office-bearers fail to bring the agenda of restoring the JNUSU Constitution to the fore? (c) Why did the JNUSU fail to take initiative in removing the discriminatory grade-point criteria for AC/BoS elections or reviving the SFCs across Centres and Schools? .
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SFI-JNU's criticism of the AISA-Ied JNUSU as a zero achievement union is based on these concrete issues, which the AISA had itself committed to resolve through their UPerspective and Agenda" for the JNUSU elections in March 2012. It is understandable that being a union wijh a short tenure all the issues could not have possibly been resolved. What was expected, however, were meaningful initiatives and serious struggles towards achieving at least some concrete gains for the students and advancing the student movement. What was witnessed instead was a sham agitation in March 2012 which only led to the formation of myriad committees and vague recommendations. There was NO CONCRETE ACHIEVEMENT on any of the issues, only tokenism and vacuous promises of delivering on them in the future. Moreover, the AISA launched sectarian attacks against any initiative undertaken by others, be it on the Yamuna hostel agitation, the struggle of the PHNH students or the protest march called by SIS Councillor Comrade Lenin against non-fulfilment of reseNations in admissions. .
SFI-JNU's criticisms of the AISA-Ied JNUSU are therefore not gmalicious" or ~slanderous" campaigns but an effort to hold the elected representatives accountable vis-a-vis their own commitments. AI SA would do well to categorically respond to the concrete questions on student issues rather than evading them by attacking SFI-JNU. A/SA's point that since its Convenors' reports were passed by a majority vote, the JNUSU does not need to respond to any of the questions posed by other student organisations. This is arrogance and hubris at its worst and reflects the deeply sectarian and anti-democratic mindset of the A/SA leadership. .
WHO IS INDULGING IN CRASS ELECTORAL OPPORTUNISM? .
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AISA's pamphlet shamelessly accuses the SFI-JNU of uelectoral opportunism" by selectively quoting from our pamphlets and facebook posts. The SFI-JNU came into being only because the SFI all-India leadership "dissolved~ the entire JNU unit of the SFI and expelled 4 Delhi State Committee members from JNU for adopting a dissenting political position vis-a-vis the CPI (M)'s support for Congressman Pranab Mukherjee in the Presidential elections, even when the CPI and RSP decided to abstain. .
In its pamphlet dated 8th July 2012, AJSA stated that it "welcomes this decision of the SFPs JNU Unit to oppose CPI (M)'s support to Pranab Mukhe~ee...The SFI's leaflet dated July 7 has also indicated much the same analysis -that "in a left· leaning campus like JNU," Singur and Nandigram "eroded the SFI's support base among the progressive and democratic .
minded students," and led to SFI's defeat in the JNUSU elections of 2007 and 2012... We note that SF/ JNU unit, in its latest leaflet, has raised some of these issues (especially relating to Singur, Nandigram, and TP Chandrasekharan) as well. taking a position sharply different from the official CPI (M) line." .
The CPI-ML General Secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya has written in the August issue of his party mouthpiece Liberation: "In JNU, the traditional CPI (M)/SFI citadel, (often called the CPI(M)'s fourth bastion after West Bengal, Kerala and Tripura), the entire SF/ un;t has been dissolved and dubbed a '8 team of the ultra-Left A/SA' for questioning and opposing the CPI(M) decision to support Pranab Mukhef}ee! Can there be a bigger proof of the CPI (M)'s growing rightward deviation or derailment that any radical poliUcal dissent within the party or mass organisations is dubbed ultra-Left and banished forthwffh?" .
While "welcoming" SFI-JNU's "radical political dissent" in July-August, why is the AISA doing an about-turn and terming it "electoral opportunism" on the eve of September? Who is indulging in "electoral opportunism" here? Did the AJSA presume that after being dissolved by the SF! all-India leaderShip, SFI-JNU would eventually merge with the AISA? Or that SFI-JNU would actually follow the wishful thinking of the "official" SFI group and become a "8-team" of the AI SA? .
The basic problem with the AI SA arises out of rts sectarian vision which considers haranguing against its political opponents as the be-all and end-all of its "revolutionary" activity. There is no sincerity .
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A las 11:00 a.m. el Martes 1o de Marzo, el Reporte “Percepciones de la Comunidad sobre la Falta de Ética Policiaca” de la Comisión del Oeste de Baltimore será presentado durante una Conferencia de Prensa organizada por la Coalición para la Justicia, Seguridad y Empleo. La emisión del reporte ocurre justo el día de las audiencias del Comité de Procesos Judiciales del Senado sobre legislación relativa a la rendición de cuentas policiaca.
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