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I requested Union Minister Chaudhary Birender Singh Ji to request Union Government to accede to the request of Punjab Government to name newly operational Mohali International Airport in the name of Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh, as a lasting gratitude to the supreme sacrifice of Martyr.
Ramesh Matiala - appeal to all of you - this time donate blood on 28th September. For the country, for every countryman.
On the call of the National Convenor of Aam Aadmi Party and Honorable Chief Minister of Delhi, Shri Arvind Kejriwal, on the occasion of the birth anniversary of "Shahid-e-Azam Bhagat Singh" ji and the foundation day of AAP Youth Wing, tomorrow at Aam Aadmi Party Headquarters ITO. "Blood Donation Camp" has been organized at 10 am, you all are cordially invited.
#bhagatsingh #rameshmatiala #ramesh #matiala #arvindkejriwal
, let us salute all the heroes who brought us freedom and all the heroes who are protecting it..
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23-31 March: ShahadatSaptaab .
BhagatSingh toCom. Chandrashekhar:the LegacyLivesOn.... .
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Pu b11 c MeetioCl.
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-Paraniov Guha Thakllla .
KG Basin To Coal-Gate: Neoliberalism .
noted journalist and petionerin2G case.
and Corporate Loot of Natural Resources .
Priva .Pillai .
27 March Tonight Kaveri Mess 9.30pm-----researcher and activist .
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From 2G to the recent coal scam, the CAG has pointed out the same underlying proqlem -loss to the pubic exchequer .
due to a policy of handing over precious natural resources on a "first-come-first-serve'', basis rather than being auctioned. .
Whether it is the 1.76 lakl1 crore (2G) or Rs 10.7 lakh crore in the coal .
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scam, the CAG has pointed out absence of .
transparent auctions as the reason for massive losses. .
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The issue however is much deeper. The larger question is. can we arrest all "losses to the state excheQuer" merely by .
auctioning off resources to the highest bidder? Can it be in the national interest to let private players use up and .
indiscriminately exhaust these precious resources as per their whims and fancies .
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merely for private profits, .
robbing future generations of Indian people of these resources? Even if a resource like coal were to be adioned off .
to a company, the state receives a one-time payment or some miniscule royalty, which is a pittance of the t~profit that .
it finally makes from mining. .
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Natural Resources in the Neo-Uberal Era: Tools for Corporate Profiteering .
-'In the past few years. we have seen the oil and natur?l gas-rich Krishna Godavari (KG) basin been handed over to Reliance .
for private profiteering. A previo us CAG report has exposed how a dubious "production sharing contracr was signed .
between the government and private petroleum operators. data on Reliance's capital expenditure was deliberately fudged .
and inflated. private operators were allowed to sell oil at much higher rates than ONGC. Niira Radia tapes have also told us.
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. -how the UPA a·nd the "op·posrtion" NDA happily colluded on the floor of the Parliament to award milfions of rupees to .
Reliance as "retrospective" tax exemptions! herefore, the issue is NOT merely one of reverting to the "correct" .
policy of auctioning natural resources. .
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Post-independence, coal was recognised as a "national asset" which the state should manage, keeping il mind the .
interests of the "community". Coal was thus nationalised -a process that began in 1971 and was completed in 1973. Soon .
afterwards however, the real project of "nationalisation" began to unravel. As early as 1976, a clause was irl1rodtced in the .
Coal Nationalisation Act to allow coal blocks to be allotted to private iron and steel (and in some limited cases. to private .
power companies too) for their captive consumption. .
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The ongoing process of privatising coal mining proceeded with great speed in the 1990s -the Coal NcO:lnalisation .
Act was amended in 1993 to allow allotment of captive coal mining blocks to private power companies. Coal prices were .
deregulated by the Ministry of Coal, and in 1996, the MoC issued yet another notification allowing cement COOlpanies to .
acquire captive coal mining blocks. .
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And as the CAG report no w exposes, between 2004-2009, coal mining blocks were handed out on a platter at a .
pittance to private companies who mine coal as and when they can make the most profits. When the issue of .
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allotting coal blocks at ridiculously low rates became too difficult for the UPA to handle. they finally introduced the new .
MMOR Act 2011 , which recommends auctioning of coal blocks. .
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Besides this hyper-actrve neo-liberal policy shift favouring corporate profits. we are also witnessing how the state machinery .
sits back and watches rampant violations and open loot of mineral resources by the politician-mafia nexus -flom Bellary .
in Karnataka, to the coal belt in Chhattisgarh and MP, to mineral-rich areas in Odisha and Jharkhand. .
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Also, this time around the PMO cannot even pretend (as it tried to do in the 2G scam) not to be ii'MJhred. After all, coal ministry was directly under Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for long stretches during 2004-2009 when these dubious allocation of coal blocks took place and therefore complicit in this loss of resources. Several of the companies named in the draft CAG report that is causing such a furore are based in BJP-ruled Chhattisgarh. It is dear that after all the public sound and fury, the so-called "opposition" BJPwill also w illingly participate in a carefully orchestrated .
cover-up in order to hide the huge share they enjoy in this regime of corporate loot. So whether the so-caned opposition" NDA-BJP chooses to raise the issue or not, whether the CAG chooses to backtrack on its own draft esituates or not, the ·~ubious nature of allocation of coal blocks and the obvious possibility of mega corruption illvolved in the pro-cess CANNOT be brushed under the carpet ANYMORE. .
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In designing a mineral policy for the entire country. it is important to ask: will state policy be decided by corporate profits, or by the larger interests of the people? In the case of an important resource like coal, why should public sector companies have to engage in cut-throat competition with the likes of the Jindals and the Tatas? Why should private conpanies be allotted captive coal mining blocks? Why can't they simply purchase all the coal they require from Coalln<fe. instead of .
acquiring coal blocks and then using them as speculative capital to profit from ? .
AISA is organising a public meeting tonight (March 27'h) from 9.30 pm onwards at Kaveri mess, wheh will be .
addressed by Paranjoy Guha Thakurta (noted journalist who has extensively reported on the regime of corporate loot of natural resources) and Priya Pillai (a researcher and activist). We appeal to the student community to participate in this public meeting in large numbers to d1scuss these important issues related to the use and misuse of natural resources. .
' Piyush, Vice-President, AISA, JNU Omprsad, Jt. Secy., AISA,JN U .
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Commemoratinl!Saheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh on his Birth Anniversary.
Lone Live BhaeatSmf!li.'s Legacy ofAnti-Imp~rialist ~ationa~m!.
'Bhagat Sil'lgh. this time, don~ be born an Indian,.
fn The punishment for patriotism Is the gallows even today,.
oD · ... There is a new law, )ou'/1 be behind bars in a mornent, .
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B Let alone bombs, you '/1 be caught even for giving a speech!'As we remember Bhagat Singh on his birth anniversary, we hear the echo ofthese words ofthe poet Shankar Shailendra..
a In Bihar, today, four dalrt landless labourers face the gallows and sixteen are imprisoned for life under TADA for daring todemand minimum wages and social dignity. POTA may be repealed, but its most draconian aspects are incorporated in other1 .
existing laws. The mother of all black laws, AFSPA, terrorises the people of Manipur, Kashmir and the entire North east..
Recall that BhagatSingh and his comrades were hanged for throwing a bomb in the Assembly in protest against.
the draconian Public safety and Trade Dispute Bill which made Union activity and freedom of dissent illegal..
Today, In Independent India. we see that Bhagat Singh Is being hanged daily..
on23 March, 1931, 8hagat Singh, Rajguru and Suk.hdev were hanged by the British. Their martyrdom sparked off a freshdebate in the entire nation. Thousands ofyouth, with the dreams ofan India free from oppression and imperialist domination,.
flung themselves onto the rocky path of revolution. Bhagat Singh and his comrades posed a burning question mark to the.
national movement led by Gandhi, both before and aftertheir martyrdom. Presenting the revolutionary programme in 19'31,.
Bhagat Singh had commented on the Congress, " This is a struggle dependent uponthe middle class shopkeepers and.
a fewcapitaliststhe real revolutionary armies are in the villages and factories-the peasantry and the labourers..
Butour bourgeois leaders do notand cannot dare totackle them.After his first experience with the Ahmedabad.
labour.ers in 1920 Mahatma Gandhi declared: "We must not tamper with the labourers. It is dangerous to makpolitical use of the factory proletariat" (The Times, May 1921). Since then, they never dared to approach them.There remains the peasantry. The Bardoli resolution of 1922 clearly defines the horror the leaders felt when they.
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saw the gigantic peasantclass rising to shake offnotonlythe dominatjon ofan alien nation butalso the yoke ofthe.
landlords." .
It was a time when the Congress-led freedom struggle was going through a phase of pessimism following the calling off of.
the Non-Cooperation Movement; when Savarkar had secured his freedom by writing apology letters to the British;when the.
Hindu Mahasabha and RSS were pledging loyalty to the British. According to the ABVP, this was a phase of 'collaborationwith the British'. But this was the same phas~ when Bhagat Singh and other revolutionaries set up the Hindustan SocialistRepublican Association (September 1928) and the Naujawan Bharat Sabha,which gave the freedom struggle a revolutionary.
edge. Itwas the popularity oftheirmovement which pressurised the Congress to adopt the slogan of.
, the danger from the religious Idiom ofthe freedom movement as well as the British policy of 'divide'and rule' by fanning up .
Puma Swaraj'. Gaugingcommunalism, Bhagat Singh called for the total separation of religion from politics and declared that only a secular society.
can be the foundation for a free India. It was Bhagat Singh and his comrades, who first introduced scientific socialism into the.
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agenda ofIndian revolutionaries. This was what made Shagat Singh and his comradesthe target of criticism by LaIa Lajpat Rei.
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and Gandhlji, who distrusted the 'smell ofBolshevism' that emanated from Bhagat Singh.
's ideas. They were unhappy that,.
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thanks to Bhagat Singh,the nation's youth were taking Lenin as their leader. Bhagat Singh had called upon youth to "take the.
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message of revolution to the far comers ofthe country, light the spark of revolution In the crores of people in slums, hutments.
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and factories, so as to achieve freedom and make the exploitation of man by man ImpossibleOJ.Even after Bhagat Singh's martyrdom, the dream of abuilding a socialist society did not die. Ifthis dream inspired youth in.
the 1930s, the same dream inspired the students and youth ofthe Naxalbari movement ofthe 1960s to bum their degrees and.
respond to Charu Majumdar's call to sacrifice their lives In the revolutionary peasant movement,with the song, "our motherfand.
will be free· on their lips. .
Once again, our 'brown sahib' ruling class, whether it be In the form ofgovernments led by BJP or Congress, is bent on.
.. selling out ournation'sfreedom to US-led imperialism. The need ofthehour isto strengthen Bhagat Singhfree and egalltarian India. 's struggle for atruly.
We have seen many attempts to distort history and erase the legacy of revolutionaries like Bhagat Singh. On the occasionofBhagat Singh's birth anniversary, AISA invites youto participate in a discussion onthe role ofthe Congress, Communistsand RSS in the freedom struggle. .
A Presentation :.
Role of Congress, Communists and RSS in Indian Freedom Struggle .
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National President AISA, Editorial Board Liberation..
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Sdi-Moaa Des President ATS.A JNU Sdi-Satyu VcnlutuSiddardha Kr. D., V.~ 1\ISA,JNU .
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Remembering #BhagatSingh on 113th birthday on 28th Sept 1907.
Sacrificed his life for independence at the age of 23 only.
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#bhagatsinghlegend #bhagatsinghji #bhagatsinghfan #jaihind #Hero
“Love always elevates the character of man. It never lowers him, provided love be love.”
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27.9.07 ~ 19-28 Sept Remembering Revolutionaries Uphold The Anti-Imperialist II .
Legacy Of Bhagat Singh cultural Night Of Protest Music in Hindi, Bhojpuri Join ' .
Massive Student Youth March To Parliament.
Hile Le Jhakjhor Duniya Against Indo-US Nuke Deal, UPA's Pro Imperialist .
Policies And In Defense Of Sovereignity 1 From Feroze Shah Kotla Ground 28 Sept 11 am r'Hirawal .
On 28 September. marking 100 years of Bhagat Singh's Birth, many political forces will claim to pay homage to h1s .
memory and shed tears for him. But how many of them are willing to allow Bhagat Singh's voice to be heard by Indians .
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today? .
The Sangh Parivartries to dress Bhagat Singh up in saffron to look like a Bajrang Dal cadre.And s theadvocacyCongressof'tries to .
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'violent's debate with Gandhi to one of'violence vs non-violence', in which Bhagat Singhreduce Bhagat Singh.
means' is excused on account of his youth. Both Congress and BJP take good care to gloss over Bhagat Singh's actual .
words. .
Bhagat Singh: Communist Revolutionary For whom "Azadi" (Freedom) was Possible .
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.' Only Through "Kranti" (Revolution) BhagatSingh gave fresh meaning to the concept of 'azadi' and 'deshbhakti'. For Bhagat Singh, freedom was incomplete without the end of"exploitation ofman byman.d So, for Bhagat Singh, a free India was a socialist India free from feudalism .
and imperialism, and so 'azadi' was impossible without 'kranti'. In place of the old battle cry ofVande Mataram, Bhagat Singh and his comrades popularized a newslogan ofliberation-"lnquilab Zindabad" (Long Live Revolution), the slogan that ~ has since become the mostemphatic expression of the fighting determination of the Indian people in all their struggles. .
Bhagat Singh said,"~Bombsand pistols do notmake revolution. The sword ofrevolution is sharpened on the whetting-stone .
of ideas." Bhagat Singh, along with his comrade Bhagawati Charan Vohra was one of the pioneers of the communist .
movementin India. He moved away from an early phase ofanarchist terrorism, sharpening his revoll!tionary young mind on .
the whetting stone ofMarx's and Lenin's writings-right up to the hourof his death. .
Congress and BJP: Agents of Imperialism Bhagat Singh's political awakening began at a time when the British colonial rulers had perpetrated the infamous .
Jallianwalabagh massacre.Today,ourrulers-ourbhure angrez-inflict Jallianwala Baghs on ourown people-at Kalinganagar, .
atNandigram, at Khammam, in order to grab land forthe East India Companys oftoday. Do they have any right to speak of .
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Bhagat Singh? 's .
The Prime Minister declared that the British Raj was a model of good governance-isn'tthis proofof Bhagat Singhwarning that the Congress, ifitcame to power, would behave as agents of imperialism? Both Congress and BJP compete with each otherto shackle India to the US the leading imperialist force oftoday. Our rulers have mortgaged the indepen-dence to choose ourown policies and developourown resources-they have mortgaged the nation.They are also weaken-ing and fragmenting the nation from within, they are perpetuating the colonia! policy ofdivide-and-rule. ..._ .
's path today-those who challenge the SEZs, confront US .
And communist revolutionaries who follow Bhagat Singh'anti-nationals'.
'deshbhakti' -are branded as.
imperialism, and refuse to equate communalism and anti-Muslim hatred with .
by the bhure angrez oftoday! .
Bhagat Singh: Staunch Opponent of Communalism .
Bhagat Singh was one of the only modern national leaders who asserted that true secularism means separation of .
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religion from politics and state. Hemaintained that growth ofclass-consciousness was a correct way to combat communal-.
ism.Although he had great respect for Lala Lajpat Rai as a national leader, he did not hesitate to take issue with Lalaji when .
he turned to communal politics. He then launched an unrelenting ideological-~olitical campaign against Lalaji. In 1928. .
during the Naujawan Bharat Sabha (NBS) conference. hecategorically opposed the idea that youth belonging to religious, .
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communal organizations be permitted to become the members ofNBS. Close to his death, hewrote a beautiful rationalist .
piece: ·whyI am anAtheisr. .
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CPI(M): Betraying Bhagat Singh's Legacy ~ .
TheCPI(M) and SFI too are among those who claim Bhagat Singh's legacy. But can BhagatSingh befound today .
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among those CPI(M) leaders and cadres who joined the police In shooting dead, raping and terrorising the .
peasants ofNandlgram? Intherapists ofTapasi Malik atSingur? In the CPI(M) partythatshowers concessions on .
lata,hailsJindal with Lal Salam, and kills peasants to please Salem? In the CPI(M) CentraiCommittee members like Benoy Konar whotell us thaf' the police repression is democracy"?! Isn'titmore likelywe'll find Bhagat Singh among the Nandigram peasantry who decided to take inspiration from their .
Tebhaga past, and joined hands to defy and defeat the corporate grabbing oftheir land? g .
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23-31 March: Sbahadat Saptaah .
BhagatSingh toCom.Chandrashekhar.the Legacy LivesOn.... .
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s.pea kers .
Public Meetinned..
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Whether it is the. 1.76 lakh crore (2G) or Rs 10.7 lakh crore in the coal scam. the CAG has pointed out absence of .
transparent auctions as the reason for massive losses. The issue however Is m_uch deeper. The larger question is. can we arrest all "losses to the state exchequer" merely by auctioning off resources to the highest bidder? Can it be ill the national interest to let private players use up and indiscriminately exhaust .these precious resources as per their whims and fancies merely for private profits, robbing future generations of Indian peopl~ of these resources? Even if a resource like coal were to be audioned off to a company, the state receives a one-time payment or some miniscule royalty, w hich is a pittance of the total profit that it finally makes from mining. .
Natural Resources in the Neo-Liberal Era: Tools for Corporate Profiteering -In the past few years. we have seen the oil and natur~l gas-rich Krishna Godavari (KG) basin been handed over h:> Reliance > for private profiteering. A previous CAG report has exposed how a dubious "production sharing contract" was signed -between the government and private petroleum operators. data on Relia.nce's capital expenditure was deliberately fudged and inflated, private operators were allowed to sell oil at much higher rates than ONGC. Niira Radia tapes have also told us · --· · h·O~: ttie UPA and the "opposition" N DA happily colluded on the floor of the Parliament to award millions of rupees to .
Reliance_as "retrospective" tax exemptions! herefore, the issue is NOT merely one of reverting to the "correct" .
policy of auctioning natural resources. .
Post-independence, coal was recognised as a "national asset" which the state should manage, keeping in mind the .
.
interests of the "communrty". Coal was thus nationalised -a process thG!t began in 1971 and was completed in 1973_Soon .
afterwards however, the real project of "nationalisationQbegan to unravel. As early as 1976, a clause was introduced in the .
Goal Nationalisation Act to allow coal blocks to be allotted to private iron and steel (and in some limited cases, to private .
power companies too) for their captive consumption. .
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The ong~oing process of privatising coal mining proceeded with great speed in the 1990s-the Coal Nationallsa:tion .
. ,, Act was amended in 1993 to allow allotment of captive coal miffing blocks to private power companies. Coal p00es were .
deregulated by the Ministry of Coal, and in 1996, the MoC issued yet another notification allowing cement companies to .
acquire captive coal mining blocks. .
.
And as the CAG report now exposes, between 2004-2009, coal mining blocks were handed out on a platter at a pittance to private companies who mine coal as an.d when they can make the most profits. When the issue of allotting coal blocks at ridiculously low rates became too difficult for the UPA to handle. they finally introduced the. new MMD'R Act 2011 , which recommends auctioning of coal blocks. .
Besides this hype,r-active nee-liberal policy shift favouring corporate profits, we are also witnessing how the statemadl:inerv sits back.and watches rampant violations and open loot of mineral resources by the politician-mafia nexus-fum Bellary in Karnataka, to the coal belt in Chhattisgarh and MP, to mineral-rich areas in Odisha and Jharkhand. .
Also, this time around the PMO cannot even pretend (as it tried to do in the 2G scam) not to be involVed. After all, coal ministry was directly under Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for long stretches during 2004-2009 when these dubious allocation of coal blocks took place and therefore complicit in this loss of resources. Several of the companies named in the draft CAG report that is causing such a furore are based in BJP-ruled Chhattisqarh. It is dear that after all the public sound and fury, the so-calle'd "opposrtion" BJP'will also willingly participate in a carefully orchestrated cover-up in order to hide the ·huge share they enjoy in this regime of corporate loot So whether the so-called «opposition" .
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NDA-BJP chooses to raise the issue or not, whether the CAG chooses to backtrack on its own draft estimates or not, the ~ubious nature of allocation of coal blocks and the obvious possibility of mega corruption involved in the process CANNOT be brushed under the carpet ANYMORE. .
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In designing a mineral policy for the entire count~ it is important to ask: will state policy be decided by corporate profits, or by the larger interests of the people? In the case of an important resource like coal, why should public sector companies have to eng~ge in cut-throat competition with the likes of the Ji.ndals and the Tatas? Why should private comp:aries be .
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!·, · allotted captive coal mining blocks? Why can't they simply purchase all the coal they require from Coal India, instead of .
acquiring coal blocks and then using them as speculative capital to profit from? .
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AISA is organising a public meeting tonight (March 27th) from 9.30 pm onwards at Kaveri mess, which wm be addressed by Paranjoy Guha Thakurta (noted journalist who has extensively reported on the regime of corporate loot of natural resources) and Priya Pillai (a r~searcher and activist). We appeal to the student community to participate in'··· .
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this public meeting in large numbers to discuss these important issues related to the use and misuse of natural resDU:rces. ' Piyush, Vice-President, AlSA, JNU Omprsad, Jt.Secy., A ISA,JNU .
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The Province where The Revolutinary; BhagatSingh was Born at the age of 12!
Amritsar, Punjab, India | viva la' revolution
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23-31 March: Shahadat Saptaah.
BhagatSingh toCom.Chandrashekhar: the Legacy LivesQn_.
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Public MeetiDC] o speakers .
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Paraniov Guha Thakuna.
KG Basin To Coal-Gate: Neoliberalism.
and Corporate Loot of Natural Resources noted journalistand petionerin 2G case .
--27 March Tonight Kaveri Mess 9.30pm -----Priva ,Pillai.
researcher and activist.
From 2G to the recent coal scam, the CAG has pointed out the same underlying problem -loss to the public exchequerdue to a policy of handing over precious natural resources on a "first-come-first-serve.
'.
1, basis rather than being auctioned.
Whether it is the 1.76 lakh crore (2G) or Rs 10.7 lakh crore in the coal scam, the CAG has pointed out absence of.
transparent auctions as the reason for massive losses. .
auctioning off resources to the highest bidder? Can it be in the national interest to let private players use up and The issue however is much deeper. The larger question is. can we arrest all "losses to the state exchequer" merely byindiscriminately exhaust these precious resources as per their whims and fancies merely for private profits~.
robbing future generations of Indian people of these resources? Even if a resource like coal were to be auctioned off.
to a company, the state receives a one-time payment or some miniscule royalty, which is a pittance of the total proflt that.
it finally makes from mining. .
Natural Resources in the Nee-Liberal Era: Tools for Corporate Profiteering .
In the past few years, we have seen the oil and natur~l gas-rich Krishna Godavari (KG) basin been handed over to Reliance.
for private profiteering. A previous CAG report has exposed how a dubious "production sharing contract" was signed.
between the government and private petroleum operators. data on Reftance's capital expenditure was deliberately fudged.
and inflated. private operators were allow~d to sell, oil pt much higher rates than ONGC. Niira Radia tapes have also told us.
how the UPA ~nd the "opposition"· NDA happily· colluded on the floor of the Parliament to award millions of rupees to.
Reliance as "retrospective" tax exemptions! herefore, the issue is NOT merely one of reverting to the ucorrect"policy of auctioning natural resourc es. ··.
Post-independence, coal was recognised as a "national asset which the state should manage, keeping in mind the.
interests of the "community". ..Qoal was thus nationalised.-a process t~t began in 1971 and was completed in 1973. Soonafterwards however, the real project of "nationalisation" began to unravel. As early as 1976, a clause was introduced in theCoal Nationalisation Act to allow coal blocks to be allotted to private iron and steel (and in some limited cases, to privatepower companies too) for their captive consumption..
The ongoing process of privatising coal mining proceeded with great speed in the 1990s-the Coal Nationalisatl>nAct was amended in 1993 to allow allotment of captive coal mining blocks to private power companies. Coal prices were.
deregulated by the Ministry of Coal, and in 1996, the MoC issued yet another notification allowing cement companies toacquire captive coal mining blocks. .
And as the CAG report now exposes, between 2004-2009, coa! mining blocks were handed out on a platter at apittance to private companies who mine coal as and when they can make the most profits. W hen the issue ofallotting coal blocks at ridiculously low rates became too difficuft for the UPA to handle, they finally introduced the newMMDR Act 2011 , which recommends auctioning of coal blocks.Besides this hyper-active nee-liberal policy shift favouring corporate profits, we are also wrtnessing how the state mactWey.
sits back and watches rarrwant violations and open loot of mineral resources by the politician-mafia nexus-from Belaly.
in Karnataka, to the coal belt in Chhattisgarh and MP, to mineral-rich areas in Odisha and Jharkhand..
AJso, this time around the PMO cannot even pretend (as it tried to do in the 2G scam) not to be involved. Afterall, coal ministry was directly under Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for long stretches during 2004-2009 whsn.
these dubious alloca~ion of coal blocks took place and therefore complicit in this loss of resources. Several of the.
companies named in the draft CAG report that is causing such a furore are based in BJP-ruled Chhattisgarh. It is dear~.
after all the public sound and fury, the so-called "opposition" BJP·wl also willingly participate in a carefully orchestratedcover-up in order to hide the huge share they enjoy in this regime of corporate loot. So whether the so-called "oppositiod'NDA-BJP chooses to raise the issue or not, whether the CAG chooses to backtrack on its own draft estimates ornot, the ~ubious nature of allocation of coal blocks and the obvious possibility of mega corruption involved inthe process CANNOT be brushed under the carpet ANYMORE..
In designing a mineral policy for the entire country, it is important to ask: will state policy be decided by corporate profdS,.
or by the larger interests of the people? In the case of an important resource like coal, why should public sector companies.
have to engage in cut-throat competition with the likes of the Jindals and the Tatas? Why should private companies be.
allotted captive coal mining blocks? Why can't they simply purchase all the coal they require from Coal !ndia, instead ofacquiring coal blocks and then using tt1em as speculative capital to profit from?.
AISA is organising a public meeting tonight (March 27th) from 9.30 pm onwards at Kaveri mess, which wiD be.
addressed by Paranjoy Guha Thakurta (noted journalist who has extensively reported on the regime of corporate~ ofnatural resources) and Priya Pillai (a researcher and activist). We appeal to the student community to participate mthis public meeting in large numbers to discuss these important issues related to the use and misuse of natural resources..
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HI have sajd that the present movement... is bound to end in some sort ofcompromise or complete failure. .
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is a struggle dependent upon the middle class shopkeepers and a few capitalists. Both these, and particularly the 1-eUl\ latter, can neyer dare to risk its property or possessions in any struggle. The real revolutionary armies are in the .e~r~ villages and in factories, the peasantry and the labourers. But our bourgeois leaders do not and cannot dare to J tackle them. The sleeping Iion once awakened from its slumber shall become ·irresistible even after the achieve-OJ!V .
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Vast enclaves of land are being given over as tax-free havens of corporate loot and plunder. When people suffer, the state pu!4aq turns a blind eye; when they protest, it turns a deaf ear. A state of war has been declared: it goes by the name of 'Operation .
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From Bbagat Singh's last ~'Petition to the Punjab governor": . . . "Let us declare that the state ofwar does exist andshall exist so long as the Indian toiling masses and the natural od a41 resources are being exploited by a handful ofparasites. They may be purely British Capitalist or mixedBritish and .
p Ata"!s Indian or even purely Indian. ... All these things make no difference. ... The war shall continue. .
It may assume different shapes at different times. It may become now open, now hidden, nowpurely agitational, nowfierce life anddeath struggle. It shall be waged ever with new vigour, greater audacity and unflinching .
determination till the Socialist Republic is established and ... every sort ofexploitation is put an end to and the .
humanity is ushered into the era ofgenuine andpermanent peace." .
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Yet Bhagat Singh lives on in the struggles of our times and the cry of "lnquilab Zinda bad" still resounds. Beyond the films, .
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BhagatSingh's nationalism began with the students and the youth. He urged that they should go deep among the masses, to .
the colonies of workers and hamlets of the rural poor. For all those of us who wish to fight for an Anti-Imperialist and pro-.
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imperialist agendas, against corporate loot, against draconian laws, against caste violence, religious fundamentalism and .
patriarchy, Bhagat Singh provides us energy and inspiration. .
We remember also the words of Com. Chandrashekhar, who responded to a question asked to him during the JNUSU Presi-.
dential debate with the fearless reply: 'Yes, I have ambitions. My ambitions are to live like Bhagat Singh and die like Che .
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31 March On the Martyrdom Day of Com. Chandrashekhar .
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Against Sell-Out Of Indias Sovereignity To US Imperialism! .
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Comrade Chandrashekhar during JNUSU Presidential Debate, 1994 .
Chandrashekhar Prasad, JNUSU President for two terms in 1994-95 and 1995-96, left JNU to become a whole time activist of the CPI(ML) in his hometown Siwan in Bihar. On March 31 1997, exactly twelve years back, while he was addressing a street-corner meeting at JP Chowk, Siwan, for Bihar Bandh against massacre of dalits, bullets spon-sored by the local mafia-MP Shahabuddin sought to silence him. .
His journey began as an ordinary student in Sainik School Tilaiyya, who joined the NDA. However, he soon left the NDA, finding that it did not fulfil his deep desire to struggle against social injustice. He joined the Left movement as an activist of the CPI, becoming the Vice President of the AISF in Bihar. However, the politics of the CPI too was deeply dissatisfying for him. When he joined JNU in 1990, he was attracted to the radical politics of the then fledging organisation, AISA. He played an important role in AISAs formative years in JNU. .
From an AISA platform he was elected JNUSU Vice President in 1993, and President twice in the two succes-sive years in 1994 and 1995. As a leader of the JNUSU, in 1994 Chandrashekhar led successful struggles for the restoration of deprivation points in JNU admissions which had been scrapped in 1983. He led a remarkable and massive agitation in 1995 which succeeded in foiling an attempt at imposing fee hikes and privatisation in JNU and initiated the move for creation of an autonomous body in JNU to look into cases sexual harassment. .
He resolutely resisted communal fascism and forged links of the student movement with peoples movements all over the country. Be it the protests against the rape of Bhanwari Devi in Rajasthan, the massacre of dalit landless poor at Bathani Tola, the Narmada Bachao movement against displacement of tribals in the name of development, the rape by police of activists of the Uttarakhand separate state movement in Muzaffarnagar, against state repression in the North east and Kashmir, against draconian laws like TADA and Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), Chandu made JNU students an integral part of all those movements. .
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भारत के महान क्रांतिकारी भगतसिंह, सुखदेव और राजगुरु ने 1931 में 23 मार्च के दिन फांसी का फंदा चूमकर अपने प्राण देश के लिए न्योछावर कर दिए थे। देश के बहादुर क्रांतिकारी और महान सपूतों के दिए गए बलिदान की याद में हर साल 23 मार्च को शहीद दिवस मनाया जाता है। अमर शहीद भगत सिंह,
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"By "Revolution" we mean that the present order of things, which is based on manifest injustice, must change.Pro?ucers or labourers, in spite of being the most necessary element of society, are robbed by their exploiters ofthe1r labour and deprived of their elementary rights. The peasant, who grows corn for all, starves with his family;.
the weaver who supplies the world market with textile fabrics, has not enough to cover his own and his children's.
bodies; masons, smiths and carpenters who raise magnificent palaces, live like pariahs in the slums. The.
capitalists and exploiters, the parasites of society, squander millions of their whims. These terrible inequalitiesand forced disparity of chances are bound to lead to chaos. By Revolution, we mean the ultimate establishmentof an order of society which may not be threatened by such break-down, and in which the sovereignty of the.
proletariat should be recognized and a world federation should redeem humanity from the bondage of.
capitalism and misery of imperial wars.".
These were the words of the great revolutionary Bhagat Singh describing with absolute clarity the exploitations.
perpetuated under the capitalist regime on the working sections of the populations. But Bhagat Singh said thesewords in the context of an India which was ruled, exploited and decimated by British colonialism. Shamefullyhowever, these words describe the Indian reality even today, after 60 years of independence, where lakhs offarmers in our country have committed suicide. People are living under miserable conartions with 77% of thepopulation living off less than Rs 20 per day. At the same time, all around us we are witnessing growinq.
inequalities with the rich of our country are on a consumption splurge. Ironically with poor dying of hunger, thenumber of billionaires has risen by the highest rate in the world in India. This hiatus between the 'Shining India'.
and the 'Suffering India' is a direct result of the nee-liberal economic policies pursued in our country. Bhagat.
Singh dreamt of an India where these inequalities will not prevail. With the ruling classes of our country subverting.
this dream of Bhagat Singh, it is the responsibility of the progressive sections to wage a relentless struggle against.
the economic orderwhich perpetuates worst form of inequafity and realize the dream of BhagatSingh..
Even at the international level we are witnessing that the US imperialism has destroyed the lives of millions of.
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In this age of ruthless imperialist.dom1nat1on by th~ USA, the ruling classes of our count~ 1s ahgnmg ~ore andmor with us imperialism hankenng to be a subordinate ally of the US game plan to domrnate the ent1re globe.Bh e t s·ngh believed that "Unless ... the exploitation of man by man and of nations by nations is brought to anG ad'gasuff1 en·ngs and carnage with which humanity is threatened today cannot be prevented." The Indian people all over the world. In lr'?q alon~, ~ore than 61akh Iraqis h?ve been killed by the war.ma~hi~e of the USA . .
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0 aga1ns om1nat·1on o f any not·ton by ther. o~ero~aries. It is hell bent upon signing the Indo-US nuclear deal which will completely subvert our et~ver~menver today's UPA Government is trying to betray the anti-imperialist legacy of our people and the.
great ~evou 1 d independent foreign policy. On the birth anniversary of Shaheed Bhagat Singh, we as students.
sovereignty a~ ke .
0 pledge that we will not allow our country to be mortgaged to US imperialism. The students.
of JNU sho~ld a glorious history of anti-imperialism have already stood against the Indo-US nuclear deal and in~f JNU haVIng ~ereignty andindependent foreign policy..
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· 1 1 · th t k f h ·e as o av1ng a revoIut·1onaryBhagat S1n~h ~e1e ciety. In one of his messages to the youth Bhagat Singh had said, "[The revolution) requireslra.nsformat1on 'n :i~n nor the death but the life of constant struggle, suffering and sacrifice. Crush your.
~either the ~mo h ke off the dreams of personal comfort. Then start to work. Inch by inch you shall have to.
Individuality first. S a rage, perseverance and very strong determination. No difficulties and no hardship shall.
Proceed. It needs c~u·lure and betrayals shall dishearten you. No travails (!) imposed upon you shall snuff out.
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. . . I victor. t1esh Anniversary of Bhagat Singh let us redeem our pledge to struggle for the betterment of.
Today on the 1OO'h Blr try we appeal to all students to participate in large numbers in tonight's Moho Juloosour people and the ~~':fight against injustice and oppression following the footsteps of Bhagat Singh..
and renew our resolv t JNUSUSdf. Dhananjay, presiden , Sd/ -Jyotsna, Jt Secy., JNUSU.
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Bhagat Singh photographed secretly at Lahore police station during his first arrest and detention from May 29 to July 4, 1927, in connection with the Lahore Dussehra bomb case (October 25, 1926), with Gopal Singh Pannu, DSP, CID, Lahore.
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they sacrificed themselves and liberated us not only from the British Empire butalso from the Princely .
The battle offreedom was fought by the entire nation, especially revolutionary students and youth,.
states and pave the way to establish a democratic republic whose vision and mission can be inferred from the preamble of our Constitution : WE, THE PEOPLE OF INDI~ having solemnly resolved to constitute Indiainto a SOVEREIGN SOCIALIST SECULAR DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC and tosecureto all .
its citizens: JUSTICE, social, economic and political; LIBERTY, ofthought, expression, belief, faith and .
worship; EQUALITY of status and of opportunity; and to promote among them all FRATERNITY .
assuringthe dignityoftheindividual andtheunityand integrityofthe Nation;.
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by the people, ofthe people and for the people but in India it is running-by theFew people, oftheFew .
people andfortheFew people. Ifwe look from the political point ofview then one can clearly see the .
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roots ofnepotism which has occupied almost entire nation. It is not merely the story ofNehru-Gandhifamily but it has spread itself in the form of Abdullah family in north; to Karunanidhiies in south;Sukhbindar Badal, Anurag Thakur;Dipendar Hooda, Ajay Chautala, jayant Chaudhary, Akhilesh Yadav, .
Sangma family in east and Thakre -Pawar family in west (ex: Rahul, Priyanka, Umar Abdullah,.
jyotiraditya Schindhiya, Sachin Pilot,etc.) . If we observe closely we can easily identify that every .
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constituency has becomethe reserved place for 3 or4 families and hasgiven the birthto dynasty orNeo-democracy. democratic feudal state . The election commission ofIndia has been failed to implement participatory.
It has been very clear before the majority of Indian masses that U.P.A., N.D.A and other national-.
regional parties have been influenced all the three pillars of democracy (Judiciary, Executive and .
legislature) with the help of organized influential economic wizards which created uproars in our .
common life by pre conceived notion. Itis a bittertruth that our99o/o population don't have any political .
representation. Indian financial system, government and tax polices are being used against us. Had .
Vivekanand, Gandhi, Nehru, Ambedakar, BhagatSingh ChandrasekharAzad, Asfaq, Subhas chandra bose, .
Pritilata wadekar,jayprakash Narayan,ArunaAsafAli etc. struggled for this India?.
The time has comewhenwe, the studentsofIndia must unite togetherwith a common consensus .
to comeforward withfull vigorand zeal to demandfor theirdirect participation in parliamentaryaffairs .
in the name of political reform so that students can directly participate in different fields like-finance, .
education . health , foreign affairs and environmental issues etc. .
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Students) so that we could pave the way to established a democratic republic and direct it .
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23.3.12.
On 23 March: Martyrdom Day ofBhagat Singh-Sukhdev-Rajguru (1931) .
and Revolutionary Poet Paash (1988) .
Today, 23 Mach 2012, after long 15 years of the murderofComrade Chandu, three people convicted ofhis .
murder have finally been sentenced to life imprisonment by a CBI Court, after a protracted struggle for .
justice. However. no punishment has been pronounced on the main mastermind behind his murder. former RJD MP Shahabuddin nor have the political conspiracy behind this broad daylight murder has been nailed. Today, as this verdict in the Chandrashekher murder case is announced, we remember the courage of the countless .
women and men ofourcountry who overcame theirfears, who sacrificed themselves to the cause oftrue .
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independence, and who renewing the dreams of equality that still live on. As Shahadat Saptah begins, wecommemorate the heroic lives of those like BhagatSingh and his comrades who have become symbol of revolution. We remember the brief, incandescent lives of those like the revolutionary poet Paash martyred on 23 March, 1988 and Chandrashekhar Prasad, former JNUSU president-martyred in Siwan on 31 .
March, 1997-who lived among the struggling people and were committed to this struggle unto the last. .
Bhagat Singh's Letter to the Second LCC Convicts .
(On March 22, the Second Lahore Conspiracy Case convicts, who were locked up in Ward N umber 14 (near .
condemned cells), sent a slip to BhagatSingh asking ifhe would like to live. This letter was in reply to that slip.] .
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The desire to live is natural. It is in me also. I do not want to conceal it. But it is conditional. I don 1want to live as .
a prisoner orunder restrictions. My name has become a symbol ofIndian revolution. The ideal and the sacrifices of .
the revolutionary party have elevated me to a height beyond which I will never be able to rise ifI live ... .
les, one thingpricks me even today. My heart nurturedsome ambitionsfor doingsomethingfor humanity andfor my .
country. I have not been able to fulfill even one-thousandth part ofthose ambitions. IfI live I mightperhaps get a .
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chance to fulfill them. Ifever it came to my mind that I should not die, it came from this end only. .
I am proud ofmyselfthese days andI am anxiously waitingfor the final test. I wish the day may come nearer soon .
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In the life and death of Bhagat Singh, in particular, we find an inspiration for our times and a guide to the struggles ahead. ln~the world that surrounds us and the issues that confront us, his words and acts acquire particular depth and meaning. .
Today, as the people of Koodankulam and Jaitapur launch a spirited resistance to nuclear power plants, as they face mass arrests as well as bullets and batons from "democratically" elected governments, as people in Jagatsinghpur barricade their villages against the state government and POSCO, these struggles are a clear proof that the revolutionary legacy of .
Bhagat Singh, Paash, Chandu and others who lived and died for a better society is alive and kicking. .
A new meaning to patriotism Bhagat Singh's political awakening began at the time of the horrific Jallianwala Bagh massacre where innocent people were surrounded and shot down in cold blood. Overtime, as his involvement, with revolutionary politics grew, he grew also .
in courage and confidence. Through the struggles he participated in and led, Bhagat Singh gave a new meaning to patriotism. The old cry of Vande Mataram was replaced by the slogan ofrevolution -lnquilab Zindabad-which he was among the first to proclaim.At the centre of his definition of patriotism were the people ofthe country. Love for the country became defined as love for its .
people. He keenly followed the struggles of peasants and workers and insisted thatwithout establishing the dominance of .
workers and peasants, the national movement would not bring true independence for India. Thecapitalists, the traders, the .
princes and big landlords (who were such firm friends of Gandhi); he viewed with the deepest suspicion, arguing that they could onry be treated as unreliable friends, if not sworn enemies, of Indian independence. .
The nature ofthe ruling classes .
While appreciating the mass mobilization that came with .the Gandhian struggle, Bhagat Singh also identified the class .
character ofthe Congress and warned that Gandhi's politics consciously discouraged against any attempt to politicize the 'brown sahibs' that would merely replace the.
working class. He spoke, in fact, of the dangers of setting up a rule by the .
imperialist rule with another mask, and where the domination of the overwhelming majority of Indians, the workers and peasants, would continue uninterrupted. He stated also that in order to challenge imperialism we must demolish the domestic basis offoreign rule-feudal forces and capitalist collaborators, the props and supporters of imperialist domination..
I Where the Congress was afraid to voice the demand for complete independence, where Gandhi openly and repeatedly .
condemned the revolutionaries, Bhagat Singh and his comrades 'Nere unafraid and raised the battle cry: lnqui/ab Zindabad! .
Critique of Gandhian Leadership "I have said that the present movement. .. is bound to end in some sort of compromise or complete failure. I said that, because in my opinion, this time the real revolutionary forces have not been invited into the arena. This .
is a struggle dependent upon the middle class shopkeepers and a few capitalists. Both these, and particularly the .
latter, ,can never dare to risk its property or possessions in any struggle. The real revolutionary armies are in the .
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villages and in factories, the peasantry and the labourers. But our bourgeois leaders do not and cannot dare to tackle.
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Reclaiming Democratic Spaces from Fascist Assaults ..... 17.2.12 "Jashn-e-Azaadi" Screened in Delhi University Against All Odds! .
Few weeks back. the administration of Symbiosis college in Pune stopped the screening of Jashn-e-Azaadi. bowing downto threats by ABVP and other fascist forces. Yesterday, the students and teachers of OU sent a strong statement of reversing thisdangerou~ trend of policing and bans. Hundreds of DU students and teachers participated the screening of Jashn-e-.
Azaadi organized by AI SA at the Department of Sociology, Delhi University. Predictably this screening had to be held in the teethofopposition from right-wing fascist forces like ABVP and the BhagatSingh Kranti Sena, who tried their level best to stall thescreening. Moreover, the DU administration and the Delhi Police also shamefully sided with these forces and tried to pressurize.
the Sociology department to stop the screening. .
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The powers-that-be have always tried their level best to ensure that people DO NOT get to know the reality of life inKashmir-which consists of routine fake encounters, arrests, torture, rapes and murders. The attempts by the likes of ABVP-to stall the screening of Jashn-e-Azaadi or any talk on Kashmir is aimed at this simple purpose. The saffron forces know very well.
· that they have no reasoned arguments or facts to counter the reality that the film shows: the grim reality of Kashmiri people's lives,very far from the myths peddled by stateist or Sanghi propaganda. That is why they want to muzzle the film by physical attacks andby branding i~ as 'anti-national.'.
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Such attacks are not just attacks on freedom of expression: they are an attempt to hideinconvenient truths from us. And, the entire state machinery predictably aids and abets such forces..
Yesterday, the Delhi police repeatedly called AISA representatives, stating that the Police had been receiving "threats" from.
.L ABVP and Bhagat Singh Kranti Sena. These forces openly told the Police that they would disrupt the screening, if it was allowed..
, lnstea.d ofgiving protection and preventing the hooligans from the entering the premises of Delhi School of Economics, Delhi' police kept pressurizing the organizers to cancel the screening. The DU administration initially also tried to pressurize the.
'r sociology department and the organizers to cancel the programme..
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I However, the Sociology department stood firm in defense ofscreening the film and refused to cancel the booking. They.
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demanded that the OU administration give in writing details of legal and academic grounds on the basis of which the film.
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screening should be cancelled. Unable to give any logical response to this, the DU administration changed its stand and in a' written statement. it told the Sociology department that the film screening could carry on. And so, the programme was held..
~ \ Yesterday's film screening was a spirited demonstration of the resolve of the democratic forces in the country to resist fascist and .
rl draconian assaults. .
, We live in times when fascist forces are continuously trying to curb our democratic spaces of debate, d~scussion anddissent. Academic institutions are by no means free from such assaults. In the wake of sedition charges being leveled againstBinayak Sen, AISA had run a national campaign in January 2011 against state repression. When AISA organized a massive.
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convention in DU on January 17ft~ 2011 as part of this campaign against state repression, ABVP predictably tried to stall theprogramme. On that occasion too, the students resisted the Sanghi goons and the programme was successfully held..
Most unfortunately, university and college administrations often shamefully bow down to 'threats' issued by Sanghigoons from ABVP, Bajrang Dal and similar groups. For instance. Delhi University removed A.K. Ramanujam's well-known andcelebrated essay Three Hundred Ramayanas from the BA History syllabus of the university and SymbioSIS college in Punerefused to allow the screening of Jashn-e-Azaadi .
Footfalls of the Draconian Culture of Bans and Restrictions in .JNU.
We have seen footfalls of this draconian culture of bans and 'restrictions' even in a so-called progressive campus likeJNU. For instance, the JNU administration (through a DoS circular) tried to place all sorts of ridiculous restrictions on publicmeetings and film screenings in the campus; we were told that 'anti-national' and 'uncensored' films cannot be screened! Unitedprotests of students and teachers forced them to beat a retreat. In another occasion, a student group (the JNU Forum) was.
banned, and its activities 'restricted'. The administration also tried to close the JNUSU office. However, the progressive sectionsof the student community have always resisted such assaults, forcing the administration to revoke draconian bans,restrictions and policing. .
Right-wing forces like ABVP, NSUI and YFE of course openly and enthusiastically demand such crackdowns on democraticforces. However, it is most unfortunate that even so-called "leff and "progressive" forces like SFI time and again refuse to support.
struggles to defend democratic spaces from fascist attacks. When the JNU Forum was banned, a protracted movement waslaunched -protest demonstrations were held, signature campaigns were conducted and finally an indefinite hunger strike wascalled demanding revoke of the ban. Throughout this long movement against an unprecedented administrative ban on astudent group, SFI was completely absent. Moreover, SF! did not even think it fit to explain to the student community EXACTLY.
why they were boycotting the several protest demonstrations and hunger strike called in defence of our democratic spaces and.
rights of student groups. SFI boycotted a united protest demonstration for opening of the JNUSU off1ce, on the dubious and.
farcical grounds that the JNUSU office should not be used for ~partisan" purposes! In doing so, SFI implicitly supported the JNU.
administration's attempts to stop the 'banned' JNU Forum from conducting public meetings in the only space available to them..
Students must ask by which logic of "left" and "progressive" politics SFI always remain opposed to and aloof from.
struggles against state repression and basic democratic questions of civil rights. .
AI SA congratulates_DU stude~ts ~~d teach~rs for scre~ning Jashn-e-Azaadi in the teeth of massive opposition. We appeal.
to the student commumty to rema1~ ~1g1lant aga1nst all poss1ble attacks on democratic spaces and to extend spirited support to.
movements against bans and restnct1ons by the powers-that-be. Let us NEVER FORGET Martin Niemoller's memorable words:.
11first they came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not acommunist. .
Then they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not asocial democrat..
Then they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist. .,.
Then they came for the Jews, I remained silent; I wasn't aJew. Piyush, Vice-Presiden~ AlSA JNU.
When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out." .
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Sandeep Saurav, Gen.Secy., AISA,JNU .
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went on to organize .
From San Diego up to Maine, .
in every mine and mill, .
where working-men defend their rights, .
its there you find Joe Hill, .
its there you find Joe Hill! .
I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night, .
alive as you and me. .
Says I But Joe, youre ten years dead .
I never died said he, .
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-Alfred Hayes .
31 March 09: Chandu Tum Zinda Ho.... .
Yes, Im ambitious my ambition is to live like BhagatSingh and die like Che Guevara! .
Comrade Chandrashekhar during .
JNUSU Presidential Debate, 1994 .
Chandrashekhar Prasad, JNUSU President for two terms in 1994-95 and 1995-96, left JNU to become a whole time activist of the CPI(ML) in his hometown Siwan in Bihar. On March 31 1997, exactly twelve years back, while he was addressing a street-corner meeting at JP Chowk, Siwan, for Bihar Bandh against massacre of dalits, bullets sponsored by the local mafia-MP Shahabuddin sought to silence him. .
His journey began as an ordinary student in Sainik School Tilaiyya, who joined the NDA. However, he soon left the NDA, finding that it did not fulfil his deep desire to struggle against social injustice. He joined the Left movement as an activist of the CPI, becoming the Vice President of the AISF in Bihar. However, the politics of the CPI too was deeply dissatisfying for him. When he joined JNU in 1990, he was attracted to the radical politics of the then fledging organisation, AISA. He played an important role in AISAs formative years in JNU. .
From an AISA platform he was elected JNUSU Vice President in 1993, and President twice in the two successive years in 1994 and 1995. As a leader of the JNUSU, in 1994 Chandrashekhar led successful struggles for the restoration of deprivation points in JNU admissions which had been scrapped in 1983. He led a remarkable and massive agitation in 1995 which succeeded in foiling an attempt at imposing fee hikes and privatisation in JNU and initiated the move for creation of an autonomous body in JNU to look into cases sexual harassment. .
He resolutely resisted communal fascism and forged links of the student movement with peoples movements all over the country. Be it the protests against the rape of Bhanwari Devi in Rajasthan, the massacre of dalit landless poor at Bathani Tola, the Narmada Bachao movement against displacement of tribals in the name of development, the rape by police of activists of the Uttarakhand separate state movement in Muzaffarnagar, against state repression in the North east and Kashmir, against draconian laws like TADA and Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), Chandu made JNU students an integral part of all those movements. .
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On 23 March: Martyrdom Day ofBhagat Singh-Sukhdev-Rajguru (1931) 23.3.12and Revolutionary Poet Paash (1988) .
Today, 23 Mach 2012, after long 15 years of the murderofComrade Chandu, three people convicted ofhis.
murder have finally been sentenced to life imprisonment by a CBI Court, after a protracted struggle for.
justice. However. no punishment has been pronounced on the main mastermind behind his murder. former RJD MP.
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Shahabuddin nor have the political conspiracy behind this broad daylight murder has been nailed. Today, as this.
verdict in the Chandrashekher murder case is announced, we remember the courage of the countless.
women and men ofourcountry who overcame their fears, who sacrificed themselves to the cause oftrue.
independence, and who renewing the dreams of equality that still live on..
As Shahadat Saptah begins, we commemorate the heroic lives ofthose like Bhagat Singh and his comradeswho have.
become symbol of revolution. We remember the brief, incandescent lives of those like the revolutionary poet Paashmartyred on 23 March, 1988 and Chandrashekhar Prasad, former JNUSU president-martyred in Siwan on 31.
March, 1997-who lived among the struggling people and were committed to this struggle unto the last..
Bhagat Singh's Letter to the Second LCC Convicts.
(On March 22, the Second Lahore Conspiracy Case convicts, who were locked up in Ward Number 14 (near.
condem11ed cells), senta slip to BhagatSingh asking ifhe would like to live. This letter was in reply to thaJ. slip.].
March 22, 1931 .
The desire to live is natural. It is in me also. I do not ·want to conceal it. But it is conditional. I don't want to live as.
a prisoner or under restrictions. My name has become a symbol ofIndian revolution. The ideal and the sacrifices of.
the revolutionary party have elevated me to a height beyond which I will never be able to rise ifI live ....
Jes, one thingpricks me even today. My heart nurtured some ambitionsfor doing something/or humanity andfor mycountry. I have not been able to fulfill even one-thousandth part ofthose ambitions. IfI live I might perhaps get achance to fulfill them. Ifever it came to my mind that I should not die, it came from this end only..
I am proud ofmyselfthese days and I am anxiously wailingfor the final test. I wish the day may come nearer soon.
In the life and death of Bhagat Singh, in particular, we find an inspiration for our times and a guide to the struggles ahead..
In the world that surrounds us and the issues that confront us, his words and acts acquire particular depth and meaning.Today, as the people of Koodankulam and Jaitapur launch a spirited resistance to nuclear power plants, as they face massarrests as well as bullets and batons from "democratically" elected governments, as people in Jagatsinghpur barricadetheir villages against the state government and POSCO, these struggles are a clear proof that the revolutionary legacy of.
Bhagat Singh, Paash, Chandu and others who lived and died for a better society is alive and kicking..
A new meaning to patriotism .
Bhagat Singh'.
s political awakening began at the time of the horrific Jallianwala Bagh massacre where innocent peoplewere surrounded and shot down in cold blood. Over time, as his involvement, with revolutionary politics grew, he grewalso.
in courage and confidence. .
Through the struggles he participated in and led, Bhagat Singh gave a new meaning to patriotism. The old cry of VandeMataram was replaced by the slogan of revolution -lnquilab Zindabad-which he Votas among the first to proclaim.At thecentre of his definition of patriotism were the people of the country. Love for the country became defined as love for itspeople. He keenly followed the struggles ofpeasants and workers and insisted that without establishing the dominance ofworkers and peasants, the national movement oould not bring true independence for India. The capitalists, the traders, the.
princes and big landlords (who were such firm friends ofGandhi); he viewed with the deepest suspicion, arguing that they.
could only be treated as unreliable friends, if not sworn enemies, of Indian independence..
The nature ofthe ruling classes .
While appreciating the mass mobilization that came with the Gandhian struggle, Bhagat Singh also identified the classcharacter ofthe Congress and warned that Gandhi'.
s politics consciously discouraged against any attempt to politicize theworking class. He spoke, in fact, of the dangers of setting up a rule by the.
.. 'brown sahibs' that would merely replace the.
imperialist rule with another mask, and where the domination of the overwhelming majority of Indians, the workers and.
peasants, would continue uninterrupted. He stated also that in order to challenge imperialism we must demolish the.
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domestic basis of foreign rule-feudal forces and capitalist collaborators, the props and supporters of imperialist domination. .
Where the Congress was afraid to voice the demand for complete independence, where Gandhi openly and repeatedly .
condemned the revolutionaries, Bhagat Singh and his comrades vvere unafraid and raised the battle cry: lnquilab Zindabad! .
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Critique of Gandhian Leadership.
"I have said that the present movement. .. is bound to end in some sort of compromise or complete failure.I said that, because in my opinion, this time the real revolutionary forces have not been invited into the arena Thisis a struggle dependent upon the middle class shopkeepers and a few capitalists. Both these, and particularly thelatter, can never dare to risk its property or possessions in any struggle. The real revolutionary armies are in the.
vi llages and in factories, the peasantry and the labourers. But our bourgeois leaders do not and cannot dare to tackle.
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Honorable Chief Minister Shri Arvind Kejriwal had called upon all the youth to donate blood on the occasion of 115th birth anniversary of Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh.
I inspired all the youth to donate blood by donating blood in the blood donation camp organized at ITO party office today.
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