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Shun Left negativism. Vote for a Positive Programme .

Friends, .

. The last few years in JNU have seen the sheer lack of interest in any issue of students' concerns, by the vanous Left-led Students' Councils. In fact the students of JNU have been taken for a ride by cheap sloganeering and loud-mouthed speeches. The more the Left in the campus gets marginalised, the shriller its hollow shouting becomes. .

Let us take the sphere of education. This Issue of prime concern lies totally neglected in JNU, so much so, that there is a fast deterioration in our academic environment. People who never visit the Library today now are talking in terms of modernisation of Library. When such a proposal was mooted, the draft was never circulated among the Student Community, and there was no attempt to take the general student into confidence. The ABVP resolves that .

it will evolve a broad consensus on the various problems of the Library and expedite its upgradation and .

modernisation in the first quarter of next year. Transparency and Accountability will be our key words in such an initiative. As far as privatisation and commercialisation of education are concerned, let us make two things very clear:-.

1. Neither the SFI-AISF nor the NSUI have any right to point fingers at us on this ground. The state of education in .

W.B. has grown from bad to worse. Calcutta university which was a citadel of academic excellence is in a sorry state today and the syllabi have not been revised in the last 20 years. The world has fast moved ahead and students are forced to leave Calcutta for greener pastures outside. .

2. In Kerala, almost every district has capitation fee colleges and self-financing institutions and the Left Govt. there has promoted such institutions. This is the most tragic case of exploitation of students and commercialisation of education. It is the ABVP which has opposed such projects tooth and nail and many ABVP activists have been beaten up by the Leftist lumpens there. We have opposeld capitation fee colleges charging exorbitant fees in Karnataka as well. We resolve to fight such marketisation and commercialisation of education. On Higher Education our stand has been very clear. We firmly believe that it is the responsibility of the state to .

fund Higher Education and we shall oppose any step to the contrary, be it any government at the Centre. But at the same time, any initiative for the betterment of primary education should be welcomed. We welcome private initiatives in this sphere like the ones run by various private trusts, be it the Ramakrishna Mission, D.A.V. Schools, Christian Missionary Institutions, Saraswati Shishu Mandirs etc. etc. .

As far as fee-hike is concerned the propaganda of the Left in the Campus is horrendous. The Rs.13,500/-per semester charge is nothing but a case of statistical jugglery. There is no such fee hike in the offing. In future we propose to take up this issue with the Union HAD Ministry. Even the directive of the UGC states that there can be. no fee hike above 100% i.e. from around Rs.250-300 to Rs.S00-600. We will firmly oppose any fee hike which is a burden on the common student. .

The previous year we mooted the idea of a Centralised Placement Cell in JNU but there was no initiative by the SFI-fed JNUSU on that point. Our Councillors in SL tried their best anq ensured that campus selection gets started. We propose to carry forward this issue so that a Centralised Placement Cell gets institutionalised, which can be linked to the various School Placement Cells. The role of the SFCs in Course Restructuring and the functioning of the Placement Cells has to be enhanced. .

The proposal for a Railway Reservation Counter is pending for the last 8 years because of the inactivity of the various left-led unions. The ABVP assures the Student Community that if it Is voted to the Union it will ensure that this issue does not become an election issue next year. .

The University Administration has taken the students forgranted by mooting the start of a Centre for Information Technology. We oppose any such centre outside the School of Computers and Systems Sciences. If any such centre is opened it should be within the SC&SS and there should not be any bearing on the prospects of our MCA & M.Tech. Students. The ABVP will firmly oppose any such step towards privatisation and commercialisation. .

In 1996, when we were In a majority in the union, we ensured the increase in the frequency of 615 and this year because of the efforts made by the ABVP, the route of 621 was extended upto JNU. The three-month bus passes will soon get cleared so that students do not face a problem in this regard. The JNU post-office needs a speed-post facility and the ABVP will see to it that it starts functioning as soon as possible. .

In 1996, the ABVP expedited the construction of Tapti Hostel and it was hoped that the problems of Girl students would end. But still there are many girl students who have not been provided hostel facilities. The ABVP demands the rapid construction of Mandavi and provision of Hostel facilities to all Teflas students. .

We appeal to the JNU community to end the negativism of Left Politics this year and give a positive mandate to ABVP so that we can work toward a forward-looking JNUSU, a JNUSU with a vision and the will to realise it. .

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CENTRAL PANEL .

President Sandeep Kr. Mahapatra .

VIce President Shiv Shaktl Nath Bakshi .

Gen.Secy. Uma Shankar Singh .

Jt.Secy. Makhan Salkla .

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In the last few years, the debate on nationalism has come to occupy centre-stage in JNU. The focus has gradually shifted from how one can be a 'good Communist' (a contradiction of sorts!) to how one can be a good nationalist. Though our arch-rivals have the full freedom to argue that they are better nationalists than we are, they must admit that it has been due to the ABVP that nationalism .

itself has been accepted as indispensible in this one-time bastion ol Communism. .

Now that the Communists have accepted the leg~imacy of nationalism, it would be worthwhile to see how nationalist they have been in the last seventy-five years of their (marginal) presence in India. Ever since its foundation in 1925, the CPI was always a stooge of the Communist International. Independence of judgement was alien to it and ~s policies for the nation were decided from far beyond the frontiers of the nation. It would perhaps be a travesty of truth to state that the communists constantly sabotaged the national movement, but it goes without saying that even when they came along w~h the national movement, it was not for the sake of the nation but for the sake of their masters abroad. In 1929, the declaration of the Communist International that the Indian national movement was bourgeois in character led the Communists to break away from the movement. They stayed aloof for six years, boycotting the Civil Disobedience Movement in the process. Since they are so obsessed with the RSS, we would like to inform them that the RSS founder, Dr. Hedgewar, had himself been imprisoned during this very movement. In 1935, they reconciled themselves with Indian nationalism for a short span of time. The reason behind this 'change of heart' was that, under the threat of fascism, the seventh congress of the Communist International ordered the Communists to forge an alliance w~h the lesser enemy (read the nationalist leadership) to counter the greater enemy (fascist Italy &Germany). When the Second World War broke out in 1939, they initially labelled it as an imperialist War of Britain, but when their 'Fatherland' Russia was compelled to join hands with Britain due to a sudden German attack, the Indian Communists decided to support Britain's war efforts in order to serve their Fatherland. They, now hailed the war as a 'People's War' and pledged their support to Britain. When the Qu~ India Movement was launched in 1942, they sabotaged it by becoming spies of the British government. For them, the interests of their 'Fatherland' were far more important than the struggle for the liberation of our motherland. .

The Communists supported or sabotaged the national movement on the dictates of their foreign masters. Since the nation never occupied centre-stage in their scheme of things, they can be considered anything but nationalists. The first pre-requisite of nationalism is that the nation should be considered paramount; national intsrest should have primacy over all other considerations. There can be a debate on what is good for the nation and what is not, but it has to be unconditionally accepted that the good of the nation is above everything else. Being guilty of keeping their imported ideology above the nation, the Communists have been, at best, de-national, and, at worst, anti-national. .

In the 1940s, the CPI openly supported the Pakistan demand of Jinnah. They argued that in regions where Muslims were in a majority, they consmuted a nationality and deserved the right of self-determination. Article after article was brought out in the 'People's War', the Communist mouth-piece, and resolutions passed by the CPI, in favour of Pakistan. It is ironical that those who claim to be secular today provided full ideological backing to the disintegration of a nation on religious lines! Not only was the edifice of the nation .

demolished in this way, but religious tensions were also created in the name of self-determination. .

After independence. the Communists declared that India's independence was fake and gave a call for an armed uprising. Their armed rebellion in Telangana was crushed and the CPI was banned in several states. The ban was lifted only when the CPI agreed to participate democratically in the elections of 1952. Despite having ostensibly reconciled to a democratic, independent India, the CPI failed to be unanimous about its acceptance of our democratic polity. The party split in 1964, and the CPI and CPI(M) were born. While the CPI accepted parliamentary democracy, the CPI(M) was of the view that the overthrow of the Indian State and the Indian Constitution was the only path to socialism. They would use the Indian constitution and parliamentary democracy as tools on the road to power, and discard these once they succeeded 1n wresting power. Ironically, the CPI(M) and their student-wing, the SFI, oppose the review of the Constitution, even though the present government has made public its adherence to the basic structure of the Constitution. Apart from these instances, the Communist treachery in 1962 and the CPI support to the 1975 Emergency are well-known facts. Even during the Kargil conflict of 1999, all that they did was to demoralise our armed forces and countrymen through their articles and speeches. This being the past of the Communists, it goes without saying that theirs 'has been a decidedly negative influence on .

Indian nationalism. nationalism. We call upon the student community to reject the opportunistic anti-nationals and rally behind the forces of cultural VANDE MATARAM I .

President Vice President CENTRAL PANEL Sandeep Kr. Mahapatra ShiV Shakti Nath Bakshi .

Gen.Secy. Jt.Secy. Uma Shankar Singh Makhan Saikla .

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Parthasarathi Behra Suresh Chandra Mahakunda Vi jay Kumar .

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SPEAKER : MUKHTAR ABBAS, NAQVI, Gen. Secy. BJP, Former M.P. Lok Sabha .

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Friends, .

For the last 50 years, we in India have seen the dominance of two Intellectual traditions in our social and political circles -the .

Macaulayan and the Marxist. The first is symbolised by the liberal capitalist experience that the west has given to the world and the second is the antithesis of this experience which was experimented in the Soviet Union & China. With the collapse of the Soviet experiment and the turning of China from red to pink, there has been a talk about the end of Ideology or the end of history. But we know that, all is not woll with the World Capitalist System and Western Liberal Democracy has failed to fulfil the aspirations of most of the Afro·Asian Societies. The Nehruvian tradition in India tried a synthesis between the two but became a composite error. The Westminister model in India could not strike a chord with the Indian people, so much so, that politics has been reduced to caste and community vote banks. In India, the society has been more important than the state, but the Nehruvian experiment imposed a state from without which till now has not been able to reach our people. Secondly, secularism which is inherent in our culture and tradition -"Sarva pantha sama bhava" became an alibi for minorityism. 50 years of Congress rule failed to solve the real problems of the minorities, instead enunciated a policy of appeasement of the obscurantist and fundamentalist politics of a handful of religious leaders. Uniform Civil Code is a case in point. Thirdly. in the name of socialism, the creative genius of the Indian people was throttled and the .

license, permit and quota raj led to a low level of economic growth. In the realm of foreign policy, the wavering on the issue of Kashmir and Tibet cost us a lot and the Indian people cannot forget the wounds inflicted on us by Pakistan & China. .

It was In the fitness of things that the Nehruvian Consensus would come in for a review and the 90s have impeccably shown the collapse of this consensus. The alternative model that has emerged and gained wide acceptance is of cultural nationalism rooted in Swadeshi i.e. economic nationalism, pursuing a bold and independent foreign policy. This year we completed 50 years of our Republic and it was apt that we review the working of our constitution, Its strengths and weaknesses, its achievements and failures. But when a commission to review the constitution was set up, the Congress and the Left raised a hue and cry as If the BJP was out to strangulate our polity. Their quietness today leads us to believe that they have settled down to an acceptance. .

It is with the vision of a strong and effective state, as a powerful instrument of change in the social and political sphere, that we had underlined some important areas on which constitutional Review was imperative; .

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The left and the NSUI had shown their negativist and parochial politics on this vital issue of national importance. Another important issue where the SFI and the NSUI and their parent organisations have betrayed our people is the Issue of our Nuclear and Foreign Polley. Pokhran-11 was an assertion of India's self-esteem. Pokhran·ll was also an end to the Adhocism of Foreign Policy of the Congress. Pokhran-11 symbolised India's declaration to the world that it would not compromise an Inch when our national security interests are involved. Our way to a credible and minimum nuclear deterrent and the growth of our economic power places India as a potential global player at the threshold of a new millennium. ABVP appeals to you to assert yourself against the reactionary and negativist politics of the Centre-Left and give a clear mandata to the nationalist forces In the coming elections. .

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CENTRAL PANEL .

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PUBLIC MEETING TONIGHT :VENUE-BRAHMAPUTRA MESS, TIME 9:30P.M. SPEAKERS : K.R.MALKANI, RAJYA SABHA M.P., BJP : N.N. JHA, FORMER DIPLOMAT .

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It seems that the SFI ideologues have reached the brink of lunacy. To begin with, they made an unsuccessful attempt to slander the name of an ABVP councillor candidate by falsely accusing him of leading a mob to intimidate an SFI activist. When their slander campaign back-fired, they were forced to retreat by stating that 'it may have been an error of judgement' on their part to name a particular candidate. The fact is that the 'Slanderous Federation of India' (SFI) made an error of judgement regarding the JNU student community. They forgot that the trust of the student community cannot be won by dubious means such as slander campaigns. The more they slander us, the more they expose themselves. .

Carrying forward their misinformation campaign, they claimed in their pamphlet dated 7/11/2000 that ABVP activists were the perpetrators of violence in the Mushaira incident. If this be the case. they should have no reason to be afraid of a judicial enquiry into the said incident. Their fear gives their game away. The murderous assault on the two army Majors was carried out by none other than a bunch of SFI lumpens. It is in order to shield their lumpen activists that they are opposing the judicial enquiry. In the same pamphlet, they have shown full faith in an internal enquiry rather than an external one, thus proving that they have always been hand-in-glove with the JNU Administration. It is well known that last year, the SFI had signed an agreement with the JNU Administration that they would no longer resort to such modes of protest as hunger-strikes. gheraos etc. This strengthened the hands of the Administration, which came out with the Code of Conduct. .

The SFI pamphlet also sought to ridicule Sandeep Mahapatra's hunger strike in violation of the Code of Conduct. Do we need to remind them that it was this hunger-strike which had set the agenda for the JNU student movement this semester? The outcome was also positive. The Administration was compelled to agree to re-open the Rahmatullah Khan Committee report and work towards the fulfillment of SC/ST quotas in various centres. So far as the Code of Conduct goes, it was fearlessly violated and, thus, rejected. As a face-saving measure, the SFl also gave a call for a strike, in which they forcefully prevented many students from attending .

classes. The SFI should seriously think whom they harmed by their boycott of classes. While the V.C. was .

comfortably seated in his office, the innocent students were forced to suffer academically. .

Friends, the dirty and opportunistic politics of the SFI is there for all to see. There is a world of .

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difference between their word and deed. If their track-record over the last four years were seen, It would be found that JNUSU presidents of 1996, 1997 and 1999, all from the SFI, have already left the organization in search of greener pastures. Thus, people who asked for votes on idealistic rhetoric became opportunistic after emerging victorious in the elections. It is high time the students of JNU gave a befitting reply to the SFI's politics of opportunism and showed the dubious duo (SFI-AISF) that the politically conscious student community of JNU cannot for long be taken for a ride. .

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Sd/-Vyalok Campaign Coordinator .

OUR CANDIDATES FOR THE JNUSU ELECTIONS 2000 .

CENTRAL PANEL .

President Sandeep Kr. Mahapatra .

Vice President Shiv Shakti Nath Bakshi .

Gen.Secy. Uma Shankar Singh .

Jt.Sccy. Makhan Salkla .

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Prafulla Ketkar Dlpankar Bose Satlsh Klahore .

Mukesh Kr. Mishra Michelle Patricia Peters Shlvkant Singh .

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VOTE FOR A CHANGE! .

LET US CHANGE THE CHEMISTRY OF JNU & NOT ONLY POLITICAL ARITHMETIC!! .

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. ?tanding at the threshold of a new century and a new millenium, the Jawaharlal Nehru .

Unrversrty lo~ks forward towards a visionary and right-thinking student leadership. The churning that has been gomg on for the last one decade must be taken to its logical culmination. We must make a new beginning. What should this beginning be like? .

.T~is beginning should be a clear linkage between student interest and national interest. This begmmng should be for a positive intervention into the mechanistic, stultified, ossified and stinking centre-left politics -a beginning which should herald an era of change -a change for the better -· an opportunity for the nationalist voice to proclaim emphatically that the Jawaharlal Nehru University is not an island of Red rhetoric but very much the integral part of our soil -very much a launchpad for bringing our ideas into action. The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, as the only student organisation with a bright future, the only student organisation which locates politics at the seat of culture, the only student organisation which has a vision to throw a clvilisational challenge to the west, the only student organisation which wishes that the Indian academia and intelligentsia should evolve its own methodology of social sciences, is ready to give you a right alternative to the left of the 'Left''. The ABVP assures you that the democratic culture of JNU, the dominant concern for the deprived and the downtrodden. which is very much JNU's identity will be preserved at all costs. Friends, Cultural Nationalism and Integral Humanism are so broad categories that they can accommodate all brands of socialist thought barring the fascistic communism. We not only have a determination to bring work culture back to JNU but have a vision to restore JNU back to its stature of a centre of academic .

excellence-just as we have a vision to lead India to its rightful place in the comity of nations. .

Friends, we celebrate pluralism. But our celebration of pluralism does not mean divergent interests working at cross-purposes, but converging interests leading to oneness -oneness of the nation in its march toward the new century and the new millennium. .

We appeal to the mature and committed section of the student community to vote for a change this time -to vote out the divisive, negative and sectarian politics of the left and to vote in a positive and forward looking program of action. The SFI-AISF in the last three years have given a big jolt to the ideological politics of JNU by turning to political arithmetic and back-room manipulations. This has been coupled by an obsession with ABVP -abuses, mud slinging, character assassln.atio.n and smear campaigns. Let them be taught a lesson. As far as we are concerned, our understanding 1s clear -the crisis in which SFI is today is a logical culmination of three years of manipulative. and demeaning politics that it has unleashed against its opponents as well as its own sons of the so1l. We appeal to all who are concerned about the deterioration In our political and academic environment to give ABVP a chance -a chance to prove itself. Your vote should be a complete vote for our panel which we assure you will work with youth and dynamism in your interest. .

Negate negative politics. Vote for a positive programme. (For details do read our Manifesto, 200D-2001) .

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President Vice President Gen.Secy. Jt.Secy. CENTRAL PANEL -Sandeep Kr. Mahapatra -Shiv Shakti Nath Bakshi -Uma Shankar Singh -Makhan Saikia .

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