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Women are often overlooked when technical awards are being given out. The Anita Borg Institute celebrates the achievements of technical women at our annual Women of Vision Awards banquet and with awards given at the Grace Hopper Conference. Here Telle Whitney, ABI's President and CEO, congratulates the three winners of the 2010 Anita Borg Change Agent Awards: Ana Regina Cavalcanti da Rocha, Gayatri Buragohain, and Tayana Etienne.

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Meanwhile. corporate chiefs, hitherto mesmerised by A Decade since Genocide Manmohan but now irked at Manmohan's 'inability (despite best intentions) in giving them impunity for their scams. are0 Whathappens tojusticedela}1ed? discovering a new hero in Modi. Perhaps the Tatas and the Ambanis reason: Modi has successfully enjoyed impunity.

Does itdry up like a raisin in the sun? for genocide all these years -surely he's the best man to .

27.1.12 help us get away with our crimes too?! So, they pose for Orfesterlike a sore-'photo ops' with Modi and tell us Modi is the next PM... Andthen run? Buoyed by all this, Modi has been speaking of 'Sadbhavna.· Does itstink like rotten meat? It's an old habit with fascists, of course. Modi's 'Sadbhavna' .

Orcrustand sugarover-is of the same kind as Hitler's towards the Jews. of tsrael .

like a syrupy sweet? towards Palestinians, of -Rajapakse towards the Tamils of .

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Maybe itjustsags Sri Lanka... .

like a heavy load. Try as he might with his Sadbhavna gimmicks and talk .

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Ordoes it explode? of 'development', Modi cannot manage a makeover of his murderous image. It isn't only his tantrums that prevent him (With apologies to Langston Hughes andhis 'Harlem') from campaigning for BJP in Uttar Pradesh. The fact is that Ten long years have passed since thousands of Muslims one look at Modi, and BJP's only agenda -of communal were massacred in cotd blood in Gujarat. The Hindutva mobs, violence -stands revealed in all nakedness. Modi. just by egged on by a 'Newtonian' Chief Minister. rampaged, armed makijlg· a single appearance, inadvertently ends up ripping .

with gas cylinders. machetes, swords, fire-bombs, off all BJP's masks.. . In Bihar. too. BJP's long term ally .

JO(U) refused to allow Modi to campaign in Bihar polls. Nitrsh systematically attacking every Muslim family and mohalla. .

The police. on orders from above, watched-doing nothing Kumar knew that one ~ppearance by Modi, would expose .

the JD{U)'s 'secular' lie inevitably..

to confiscate those weapons of mass destruction. When they got desperate calls for protection from besieged people, The victims of Gujarat 2002 were buried deep in mass .

they jgoored ."them -or else came and helpfully herded all graves. in wells, they were burnt and reduced to cinder, .

the hopefuls into a convenient place -and then delivered mosques were levelled and shiny smooth roads replaced .

them. neatly packaged, to their .~illers. Beyond the actual them overnight... The voices of truth like Sanjiv Bhatt are ~::sly ·:-~r:--.::ge -rape, slashing open of wombs to extract victimised. Activists like Teesta Setalvad are forced to deal .

foetuses. burning alive an old man after cutting offhis genitals with false cases. But all in vain. The ghosts of Gujarat 2002 -are the small. incalculable tragedies. The Parsi parents-refuse to be buried in the 'peace'. 'harmony· and ·sadbhavna' Modys-waiting in everlasting hope and hopelessness for the1r of the graveyard. The ghosts of the 2002 genocide continue .

son who was separated from them. for instance. The film to haunt Mod1 and the BJP and the Sangh Panvar. Parzania told their story and their pain. in some small part. Tomorrow -28 February -is the anniversary of that .

But what they -and so many like them. undergo is dark day in 2002 when Modi held a meeting of his top police .

unimaginable. We cannot presume to know what they feel. officers and Ministers in his own house -and ordered them . -It's important to remember that these were not 'riots'. to let the Hindus 'vent their anger.' And then followed weeks They were a pogrom, genocide. What is most horrific about of carnage. .

the Nazi genocide of Jews is not the sheer fact of mass .

VIolence. of hands stained with blood. What's most chilling Let's salute the coura-ge of Zakia Jafri and all those who continue to keep the memory of 2002 alive against all the .

is the thought that an ice-cold bra1n, with dean. soft hands, attempts to erase those memories with myths of ·vibrant planned those horrors in meticulous detail, and arranged Gujarat'. Let's salute those who speak the truth and fight for .

them with scientific precision -the gas chambers, the the truth, regardless of all consequences. Let's commit .

Goebellsian mechanisms to harvest human skin for ourselves to fighting to prevent Karnataka and Chhattisgarh lampshades... In Gujarat 2002, too, what evokes the worst from becoming Gujarats. Let's commit ourselves to the cause horror is the fact that Modi planned it all. ordered it all. and of justice for the victims and survivors of Gujarat genocide his Ministers accordingly sat in police control rooms. .

2002 ..monitoring the massacre... The courage that some of the survivors have shown for the past cfecade is incalculable. They live in ·resettlement' Central Panel .

colonies. banished from their homes. There. they are denied Pres1dent . Sucheta De the bas1c nghts of sanitation. water. schools. medical care, V1ce-Pres1dent . Abhishek Kumar Yadav Gen. Secy Ravi Prakash Singhshelter -and above all. citizenship. They cannot. for Jt. Secy · Mohd Firoz Ahamed1nstance. avail of BPL cards, though they live in the most .

abJect poverty GuJarat may be 'vibrant' for some -but not sss SAA ISLL&CS .

for these survivors of the carnage, who continue to fight for : Diksha Kumari.

Akbar Chawdhary Agnitra Ghosh JUStice Sometimes. they are g1ven a choice-Withdraw cases Prince Kumar .

and complaints. turn hostile as witnesses -and you might. Minakshi Buragohain SIS Sandeep Sau.

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Close to a decade after that massacre, some vo1ces of Shivani Nag Shakeel Anjum .

truth from within the Gujarat Police machinery are finally Vijoyeta Deori .

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speakmg out . against all the odds. Those few whose Yengkokpam Johnson Singh consc1ence is not drugged. bought. or dead, have spoken out -and are facing the consequences. Facing victimisation Vismay Basu, Piyush Raj. .

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'Reflectionson B1rat1 Rape Case'. Gender Ideology in Bengal (EPW. February2. 1991). wrote: "What...explainsherreferencetothemoralandsocial standing ofthese women-that they resided in "unauthorised hutments", and that they were engagedin"foul professions>), were amistresses"ofand had "honeymoons with"men they were not married to? The onlyrelevance forsuch description resides in the unstated assumption that. .. women require certain sexual and propertyqualifications to be.

classified as fully legitimate victims... And in case the most besotted believer in the Left Front's general progressive.

potentialcould have seen in ita painfully distortedyet individual opinion ofjust one person in the party, the party mouthpieceitself, the PO ofJuly 29, 1990, proudly carries the entire statement in a separate box. The CPI(M) moves with brutal.

candour, plugging up all spaces for optimism... I. for one. would have attributed (Gupta'.

's words) to disinformation in the.

bourgeois press'hadI notread them in the People's Democracv... "(Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 26, No. 5, Feb.2, 1991 , pp. 215-218). Shyamali Gupta is now the national President ofAIDWA!l!.

In the Dhantala mass rape case of2003, the West Bengal Government had dismissed the rape charges as 'concoctedlies.' In another instance of rape ofa woman CPI(M) supporter in Coach Behar in 2003, allegedly by CPIM activists, thethen State Secretary of the CPI(M) had deemed the charge to be 'concocted', and had questioned the 'character and.

lifestyle' ofthe complainant. In the case of the rape and murderofTapasi Malik in Singur, too. senior CPI(M) leaders hadmade patriarchal insinuations about Taoasi and her family. in order to defend their own cadre who were accused. .

CPI{M)'s former Kerala CM from CPI(M). the late EK Nayanar. asked about the rash of rape cases in the state. had .

replied: '.

In the US, rape is as common as drinking tea orcoffee; rape is as old as time and will continue as long as there.

are women.'(The Hindu, April30, 2004) .

After the Kozhikode sex scandal in Kerala. Nayanar again said. "wherever there are women, there will be a sex racket.Sex rackets occurnaturally."(Outlook, 22 Dec, 1997) .

Not long ago, Bihar's Deputy Chief Minister. eager to cover up allegations of rape against an MLA of his party..

questioned Rupam Pathak's character on TV channels. In Rajasthan, when two Congress Ministers were implicated in the.

murder of a dalit rural health worker. Bhanwari Devi. whom they had been sexually exploiting. the ruling establishmentresorted to sponsoring media stories about Bhanwari's supposed 'bad moral character' and sensational tales of sex and.

blackmail. .

This trend ofbranding rape complainants or victims of violence as liars, or turning them into the 'accused', by invokingtheir 'character,' is rampant in society. But when those in positions of power and responsibility do so, it is even more.

serious and condemnable. Ifsuch persons go unpunished, it can only encourage this trend, and embolden perpetrators of.

violence on w:>men. .

Racial Profiling Compounds Patriarchal Biases.

DeJhi is notoriously unsafe for women: and women from the North Eastern states are especially vulnerable to assaults..

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IfDelhi Police habitually blames women encouraging rape through late hours/scanty clothes. etc. this is far more so incase ofwomen from the North East because racial stereotypes and prejudices add to the patriarchal mindset.In 2007. Delhi Police published a booklet titled '.

Security Tips forNortheast StudentsNisitors in Delhi'. This book on.

'security tips' only revealed howinsecure women from the North East are in the face of the lascivious, prejudiced gaze of .

Delhi Police officers! The book 'advised': URevealing dress be avoided.Avoid lonely road/bylane when dressed scantily.Dress according to sensitivity of the local populace.'J.

The book also warned parents of such women to control their daughters: "A proud father sent his only daughterin Delhi.

to make her/AS/IPS ...revealing dressed up parties /ass was molestedandthrown outfrom moving vehicle badly bruisedafterbeing outraged...." .

In society, there is a consensus that 'rape, and.

rapists, are bad.' So no one can openly defend the act.

of rape. But there are a thousand devious ways in Central Panel.

which rape is justified and rapists protected -by President : Sucbeta De.

somehowquestioning the victim's credibility, morality, Vice-President : Abhishek Kumar Yadav.

background, clothing, etc... Itis not enough to protest Gen. Secy. : Ravi Prakash Singh.

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against violence on women. Even the right-wing Jf. Secy. : Mobd Firoz Abamed.

organisations hold protests claiming to be against .

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violence on women. Those genuinely struggling for Akbar Chawdhary Agnitra Ghosh Diksha Kumari.

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justice for women who face violence, need to .

Minakshi Buragohain Prince Kumar.

simultaneously challenge the patriarchal tendency to Omprasad SIS Sandeep Sau.

blame women forsuch violence, orstand in judgement Susan PKDPrasain .

Rakesh Kumar Sarfaraz Hamid.

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on women's 'character.' Shivani Nag Dibya Shikha .

TabrezAhmadShakeel Anjum.

Let's elect a JNUSU committed to a robust struggle tochallenge the patriarchal common sense that breeds, and Vijoyeta Deori justifies, all sorts of violence on women. Every physical or Yengkokpam Johnson Singh ideological attack-on women's bodies, their self-respect, their,freedom, must be resisted tooth and nail! Vismay Basu, Piyush Raj, Central Campaign Co-ordinators .

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cut-off criteria had 'zero' importance-therefore the SFI-JNU made no efforts to locate those victims. In fact, thevery .

issue of 'faulty cut-off' found 'zero' mention in SFI's leaflets of between 2008-20101 .

The JNUSU initiated the issue of a Translation Cell to translate academic texts. For the SFI-JNU, this Issue too had .

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never been important enough even to mention-until the AISA-led JNUSU took upthe issue! .

The 16 retrenched workers who were reinstated in theirjobs thank~ to JNUSU's efforts also count as 'zero' for the .

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The Rohingya Muslims whose cause for refugee status was taken up and shelter provided in the national capital .

thanks to the JNUSU's efforts also had 'zero' importance for SFI-JNU .

SFI's 'meter' has been faulty for quite a long time: .

Between 1983-1993, the issue of restoration of deprivation points carried 'zero' importance for them-whereby it was .

left to the firstAI SA-led JNUSU to restore deprivation points in JNU. .

When the SFI introduced and defended the Nestle outlet in JNU in 2004-05, the plight of those vendors whose .

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livelihood depended on dhabas in JNU, had 'zero' importance. The issue of workers' minimum wage had 'zero' importance for SFI-which is why it dissociated from the workers' .

struggle in 2007 'zero' value, when they refused to be part For the SFI-JNU, the question of campus democracy and right to dissent had of the struggle against the ban on a student group against Operation Green Hunt. .

'Late' Meter Reading .

On many issues, it takes SFI-JNU several years (and several election defeats) to acknowledge the truth and facts. .

For the SFI-JNU, corporate land grab and bloodshed of peasants at Singur and Nandigram in 2006 had .

'zero' importance as long as they hoped to win JNUSU polls. Only after two successive defeats in 2007 and.

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2012 did they finally change their line... and that too, in hope of reversing electoral defeat. .

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In the 1990s, all SFI leaflets claimed that AISA-led JNUSUs had 'zero achievement'-butfinally in their 4page-leaflet .

'Setting the Record Straight', we find a grudging acknowledgement that it was an AISA-led JNUSU that restored .

deprivation points in 1993 and won an anti-privatisation struggle in 1995! The SFI-JNU said in 2008 that the 2007-08 AI SA-led JNUSU was 'zero achievement.' In their recent leafletthey have, finally acknowledged at least one ach1evemenf that AfSA-Ied JNUSU of 2007-08 won recognition for Madarsa certificates in JNU admissions. .

These belated admissions only underline the falseness of their previous claims of 'zero achievement.' .

This time too, it may take a fewyears for them to realise the futility of falsely shouting 'Zero' in the face of the many crucJal .

struggles on a range of issues which AISA, and AISA alone, identified, initiated, and built successful struggles around .

Defeat the Politics of Lies and Belittling Collective Gains of the Student Movement! .

Re-Elect AJSA to Consolidate the Advances and Forge New Struggles for Students .

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A Decade since Genocide discovering a new hero in Modi. Perhaps the Tatas and the.

Ambanis reason: Modi has successfully enjoyed impunity for.

What happens to justice delayed? genocide all these years - surely he's the best man to help us.

get away with our crimes too?! So, they pose for `photo ops'.

27.2.12 Does it dry up with Modi and tell us Modi is the next PM... Buoyed by all this,.

like a raisin in the sun? Modi has been speaking of `Sadbhavna.' It's an old habit with.

Or fester like a sore-- fascists, of course. Modi's `Sadbhavna' is of the same kind as.

And then run? Hitler's towards the Jews, of Israel towards Palestinians, of.

Rajapakse towards the Tamils of Sri Lanka....

Does it stink like rotten meat?.

Or crust and sugar over-- Try as he might with his Sadbhavna gimmicks and talk.

like a syrupy sweet? of `development', Modi cannot manage a makeover of his.

murderous image. It isn't only his tantrums that prevent him.

Maybe it just sags from campaigning for BJP in Uttar Pradesh. The fact is that one.

like a heavy load. look at Modi, and BJP's only agenda - of communal violence.

Or does it explode? - stands revealed in all nakedness. Modi, just by making a.

single appearance, inadvertently ends up ripping off all BJP's.

(With apologies to Langston Hughes and his masks... In Bihar, too, BJP's long term ally JD(U) refused to.

allow Modi to campaign in Bihar polls. Nitish Kumar knew that.

Ten long years have passed since thousands of Muslims one appearance by Modi, would expose the JD(U)'s `secular'.

were massacred in cold blood in Gujarat. The Hindutva lie inevitably..

mobs, egged on by a `Newtonian' Chief Minister, rampaged,.

armed with gas cylinders, machetes, swords, fire-bombs, The victims of Gujarat 2002 were buried deep in mass.

systematically attacking every Muslim family and mohalla. graves, in wells, they were burnt and reduced to cinder,.

The police, on orders from above, watched - doing nothing mosques were levelled and shiny smooth roads replaced.

to confiscate those weapons of mass destruction. When they them overnight... The voices of truth like Sanjiv Bhatt are.

got desperate calls for protection from besieged people, they victimised. Activists like Teesta Setalvad are forced to deal with.

ignored them - or else came and helpfully herded all the false cases. But all in vain. The ghosts of Gujarat 2002 refuse.

hopefuls into a convenient place - and then delivered them, to be buried in the `peace', `harmony' and `Sadbhavna' of the.

neatly packaged, to their killers. Beyond the actual grisly graveyard. The ghosts of the 2002 genocide continue to haunt.

carnage - rape, slashing open of wombs to extract foetuses, Modi and the BJP and the Sangh Parivar..

burning alive an old man after cutting off his genitals - are the.

small, incalculable tragedies. The Parsi parents- Modys-waiting Tomorrow - 28 February - is the anniversary of that dark.

in everlasting hope and hopelessness for their son who was day in 2002 when Modi held a meeting of his top police officers.

separated from them, for instance. The film Parzania told their and Ministers in his own house - and ordered them to let the.

story and their pain, in some small part. But what they - and so Hindus `vent their anger.' And then followed weeks of carnage..

many like them, undergo is unimaginable. We cannot presume.

to know what they feel. Let's salute the courage of Zakia Jafri and all those who.

continue to keep the memory of 2002 alive against all the.

It's important to remember that these were not `riots'. They attempts to erase those memories with myths of `vibrant.

were a pogrom, genocide. What is most horrific about the Nazi Gujarat'. Let's salute those who speak the truth and fight for the.

genocide of Jews is not the sheer fact of mass violence, of truth, regardless of all consequences. Let's commit ourselves to.

hands stained with blood. What's most chilling is the thought fighting to prevent Karnataka and Chhattisgarh from becoming.

that an ice- cold brain, with clean, soft hands, planned those Gujarats. Let's commit ourselves to the cause of justice for the.

horrors in meticulous detail, and arranged them with scientific victims and survivors of Gujarat genocide 2002....

precision - the gas chambers, the Goebellsian mechanisms.

to harvest human skin for lampshades... In Gujarat 2002, too,.

what evokes the worst horror is the fact that Modi planned it.

all, ordered it all, and his Ministers accordingly sat in police.

control rooms, monitoring the massacre....

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banished from their homes. There, they are denied the basic.

rights of sanitation, water, schools, medical care, shelter - and Central Panel.

above all, citizenship. They cannot, for instance, avail of BPL President : Sucheta De.

cards, though they live in the most abject poverty. Gujarat Vice- President : Abhishek Kumar Yadav.

may be `vibrant' for some - but not for these survivors of the Gen. Secy. : Ravi Prakash Singh.

carnage, who continue to fight for justice. Sometimes, they are Jt. Secy. : Mohd Firoz Ahamed.

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given a choice - withdraw cases and complaints, turn hostile SSS SAA Diksha Kumari.

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as witnesses - and you might, just might, get your life and Akbar Chawdhary Agnitra Ghosh Prince Kumar.

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livelihood back. But few have succumbed to that threat/bribe. Minakshi Buragohain SIS Sandeep Saurav.

Omprasad Busan P K D Prasain Sarfaraz Hamid.

Close to a decade after that massacre, some voices of truth Rakesh Kumar Dibya Shikha Tabrez Ahmad.

from within the Gujarat Police machinery are finally speaking Shivani Nag Shakeel Anjum.

out, against all the odds. Those few whose conscience is not.

drugged, bought, or dead, have spoken out - and are facing Vijoyeta Deori.

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the consequences. Facing victimisation and termination of Yengkokpam Johnson Singh.

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their careers... SLL&CS.

Piyush Raj, Central.

Meanwhile, corporate chiefs, hitherto mesmerised by Vismay Basu, Campaign Co-ordina-.

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"foulprofessions", were "mistresses" ofandhad ~~honeymoonswith" men they were not married to? The ontvre/evance for ~ on Birati Rape Case'. Gender Ideology in Bengal (EPW, February 2. 1991 ). wrote: ~~what... explains her reference to the Responding to the CPI(M) Women's Wing leader's statement. noted historian Tanika Sarkar, in her article 'Reflections moral and social standing ofthese women~that they resided in "unauthorisedhutments", and that they were engagedin classified as fully leqjtimate victims... And m case the most besotted believer in the Left Front's general progressive a~ such description resides in the unstated assumption that. ..women require certain sexual andproperty qualifications to be .

potential could have seen in it a painfulfv distortedyet individual opinion ofjust one person in the party, the partymouthpiece .

itself, the PO of July 29, 1990, proudly carries the entire statement in a separate box. The CPI(M) moves with brutal .

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'bouraeois press'had I not re§Jd them in the People's Democracv... "(Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 26, No. 5, Feb. .

2, 1991, pp. 215-218). Shyamali Gupta is now the national President of AI OWAI !I .

candour, plugging up all spaces for optim1sm.../.for one, would have §Jttrlbuted (Gupt§J's words) to disinformation in the.

In the Dhantala mass rape case of 2003, the West Bengal Government had dismissed the rape charges as 'concocted.

lifestyle' ofthe complainant. In the case of the rape and murder of Tapasi Malik in Singur. too, senior CPI(Ml leaders had made oatriarchal insinuations about Tapas1 and her family. in order to defend their own cadre who were accused. lies.' In another instance of rape ofa woman CPI(M) supporter in Cooch Behar in 2003, allegedly by CPIM activists, the then State Secretary of the CPI(M) had deemed the charge to be 'concocted', and had questioned the 'character and.

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resorted to sponsoring media stones about Bhanwari's supposed 'bad moral character and sensational tales of sex and blackmail. .

murder of a dalit rural health worker. Bhanwari Devi. wbom they had been sexually exploiting. the ruling establishment.

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their 'character,' is rampant in soc1ety. But when those in positions of power and responsibility do so, it is even more.

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serious and condemnable. Ifsuch persons go unpunished, it can only encourage this trend, and embolden perpetrators of.

Delhi is notoriously unsafe for women: and women from the North Eastern states are especially vulnerable to assaults. .

If Delhi Police habitually blames women encouraging rape through late hours/scanty clothes. etc. this is far more so in .

case ofwomen from the North East. because racial stereotypes and prejudices add to the patriarchal mindset..

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rapists, are bad.' So no one can openly defend the act In society, there is a consensus that 'rape, and.

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organisations Vice-Pres1dent: Abhishek Kumar Yadav .

against violence on women. Even the right-wing Gen. Secy..

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violence on women. Those genuinely struggling for sss Jt. Secy. . Mobd firoz Ahamed.

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challenge the patriarchal tendency to Minakshi Buragohain Agnitra Ghosh Dlksha Kumari.

on women's 'character.' Omprasad SIS Prince Kumar blame women forsuch violence, orstand in judgement .

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Let's elect a JNUSU committed to a robust struggle to Shlvani Nag Susan PKDPrasain Sandeep "Clur.

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challenge the patriarchal common sense that breeds, and Dlbya Shikha Sarfaraz Hamid.

.. justifies, all sorts of violence on women. Every physical or Shakeel Anjum . TabrezAhmadVljoyeta Deori.

ideological attack-on women's bodies, their self-respect, Yengkokpam Johnson Singh.

theirfreedom, must be resisted tooth and nail! .

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Down with US sponsored Israeli Agression on Gaza 18.11.12 Join Down with the UPA Govts Opportunistic Silence .

film screening .

Protest Demo .

at the Israeli Embassy Salt of the Sea .

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Tomorrow 19 Nov at 2 pm Tonight 18 Nov .

assemble at Ganga Dhaba by 1.30pm at Godavari Dhaba from 9.30 pm .

For the past few days since 14 November 2012, we have been seeing yet again genocidal attack launched by Israel in the Gaza strip of Palestine at least 39 Palestinians, including a 11-month old baby and a women pregnant with twins, have been killed in the attacks. More than a 300 have been injured. Israel has repeatedly launched air strikes on Gaza, the ferocity of the attacks can be gauged by the fact that in a single incident, Israel launched 30 air raids against Gaza in just 10 minutes. Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are also preparing for a ground invasion of Gaza. The Israeli air raids have targeted buildings of the Palestinian interior ministry and the Palestinian government and also a number of civilians houses. Refugee camps, mosques, farms and football playgrounds are being bombarded every day by Israel. .

The recent attack on Palestine is no exception: this expansionist, rascist, imperialist war of occupation has been going on for more than 60 years. And every time Israel intensifies its genocidal war, we hear US and other pro-Israel forces trying to justify Israeli aggression by claiming that Israel was provoked by Palestine was is merely acting in self-defence! The truth is that the latest round of violence (like so many previous rounds) was clearly and deliberately provoked by the Israeli government and military. .

Let us have a look at the facts: Prior to the organised Israeli attacks on Gaza beginning 14 November. .

On 4 November 2012: Israeli forces shot dead an unarmed, mentally disabled man who made the mistake of walking too .

close to an Israeli-imposed buffer area inside the occupied Gaza Strip. .

On 8 November 2012: The Israeli military invaded the Gaza Strip near al-Qarara village northeast of Khan Yunis and fatally .

injured a child. .

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On 10 November 2012: In response, Palestine attacked an Israeli army jeep near the boundary with Gaza, injuring 4 Israeli soldiers and fired several rockets into Israel. Following this, Israel attacked civilian neighbourhoods in Gaza. In the ensuing 72 hour period, Israeli forces killed 7 Palestinians. According to Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), five of the dead were civilians, including 3 children. 52 others, including 6 women and 12 children were wounded. Four of these deaths and 38 of the injuries resulted from an Israeli attack on a football playground in al-Shojaiya neighborhood east of Gaza City. .

On Nov. 13th, Reuters reported: After five days of mounting violence, Israel and the Palestinians stepped back from the brink of a new war in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, sending signals to each other via Egypt that they would hold their fire unless attacked. The report added: Ismail Haniyeh, prime minister of Gazas Hamas government, praised the main armed factions in the enclave for agreeing on Monday night to a truce. They showed a high sense of responsibility by saying they would respect calm should the Israeli occupation also abide by it, he said. But, on 14 Nov, Israel in an unilateral breach of the ongoing negotiations, summarily executed Hamas military chief Ahmad al-Jabari. .

Reuters noted that the Israeli attack appeared to end a 24-hour lull in cross-border violence that surged this week. .

The fact of the matter is: The Israeli government has a LONG history of deliberately breaking cease-fires with Palestinians in order to provoke Palestinian response and then justify Israeli mass murder of Palestinians. In 2008-09 too, Israel broke a 5-month long ceasefire with Hamas and launched the Operation Cast lead killing 1400 Palestinians, most of them civilians and 400 of them children. And this time around, even Israeli officials have admitted that Palestinian attacks had NOT caused not a single death this year, when Operation Pillar of Defense was launched with the assassination of the Hamas military leader, Ahmed Jabari. .

At a time when pro-Israel forces led by the Obama administration in the US leap to the defence of Israel, claiming that Israel has a right to defend itself, progressive and democratic forces across the world have a responsibility to expose this ridiculous propaganda, and stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine fighting against occupation, for their rights and lives. .

Several commentators have pointed out the possible reasons for the recent attacks on Gaza: elections are due in Israel in January and Netanyahu desperately needs to divert attention from growing social tensions, poverty and inequality in Israel. These attacks have forced the opposition in Israel to stand by the government and suspend the anti-government campaigns. Moreover, several commentators have also pointed out that the present military campaign in Gaza could be a mere dress rehearsal for a later war on Iran, which Israel has been planning for a long time. .

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JNUSU strongly condemns the ongoing attacks on Palestine. JNUSU also condemns the shameful silence of the .

UPA govt in the country for its complicit silence on Israels aggression and occupation in Palestine. .

JNUSU has called for a Protest Demonstration at the Israeli Embassy, Tomorrow 19 Nov at 2 pm. We appeal to .

the student community to assemble at Ganga Dhaba by 1.30pm. .

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Tonight 18 Nov, JNUSU has organised a film screening of Salt of the Sea at Godavari Dhaba from 9.30 pm onwards, We appeal to the student community to participate in the film screening tonight, and in the Protest Demonstration Tomorrow in large numbers in solidarity with the struggling people of Palestine and against Israel-US sponsored racist war .

of occupation in Palestine. .

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V. Lenin Kumar, Minakshi Buragohain, Shakeel Anjum , Piyush Raj, .

President, JNUSU Vice-President, JNUSU Gen. Secy., JNUSU Jt. Secy., JNUSU .

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AISA Panel for JNUSU Election 2012 .

Central Panel President . Omprasad.

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Vice-President .-Hinakshi Buragohain Gen. Secy : Shakeel Anjum sss Jt. Secy. : Piyush Raj Akbar Chawdhary .

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Anubhuti Agnes Bara Ashutosh KumarChintu .

Dlbya ShikhaMadhubani Sen .

Pavan Kumar.

VishwambharNath Prajapati Sukrita Lahiri .

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Tiamongla lmchen Geeta Kumari .

SAA.

Mohd. Azhar .

Agnitra Ghosh.

Sandeep Saurav Sarfaraz Hamid CSLG Singh Vikram Arun Kumar Anant Prakash Narayan .

Burning Questions of Our Times and the Role of JNUSU.

. JNUSU and JNU students have had to wage many tough .

struggles for students' rights, social inclusion, and against privatization. .

Even as you read this leaflet, the people of KoodankuJam -women and children included -are facing a terrible assault. Peacefully, they sat in front of a m1ghty nuclear plant,. opposing the loading of reactors. A huge posse of police assaulted them with lathis and tear gas canisters. The protesting people had nowhere to run but intothe sea.At least_one person -has been shot dead, the main leader of the Kookankulam struggle, SP Udayaku.mar, has been shot at, and large numbers of people inclwding children are severely injured, and arrests are ongoing. Even media personstrying to cover the assault have been severely beaten up. .

Today is 11 September. On this day 54 years ago, the Government promulgated the draconian AFSPA. Today, that infamousAct still exists-as a license to armed forces to kHI, rape, and enjoy impunity. On this day, let is salute the struggles of I rom Sharmila and the women of the North East for the scrapping ofAFSPA! .

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Corporate land grab for SEZs, mining loot, and plunder of forests, has become the order of the day. The adivasis of Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, West Bengal, resist corporate plunder and land grab -and they are· branded as 'Maoists' and 'hunted' as part of the Green Hunt Operation. Innocent adivasi children are massacred a~'Maoists' in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur. Adivasis in Jharkhand's Nagdi and.surrounding viltages are battling a massive eviction drive. In Jagatsinghpur in Odisha, the people protesting the POSCO SEZ contmue towage a brave struggle, in the face of severe encirclement and siege. .

Condolences AISA expresses its deepest condolences over the untimely demise of Girdhariji, a mess worker in Jhelum. He passed away after suffering a massive heart . attack. We offer our heatfelt condolences to his friends .

and family. .

Justice eludes the Dalit massacres at Bathani Tola, Paramakudi, Khairlanji, Mumbai's R~mabai Nagar -as the police, political powers, and feuda~ forces collude with each other, and eventhe judiciary, in most cases, ranges itself against the struggling Dalits! .

At Ramgarh village in Dadri, not far from the nationaJ capital, Dalit youth struggling against grab of panthayat land allocated to Dalits are jailed on false charges. and one youth's legs are chopped off. .

The fate of migrants is truly tragic and frightening. Chased from Myanmar, the Rohingya Muslims flee-but are denied shelter everywhere. In India, the communal fascists run a viru~ent hate campaign against these abjectly poor people, who are forced to survive somehow without a roof above their heads and without the right to earn a living. .

Mass graves in Kashmir in which the victims of fake encounters lie buried are being unearthed. And with those grim skeletons of innocent youth murdered in cold blood in the name of 'nation' and 'security', the truth about India's democracy also rises to the surface. .

The arrest, torture, imprisonment, and fake encounters of innocent Muslim youth is becoming a veritable epidemic. Azamgarh. Darbhanga, Bat! a House. Malegaon. Mecca Masjid. Yerawada Jail-all are sjtes where terrible injustice is being done. The lives of innocents is snatched awav or ruined-for crimes that, in many cases. nave been proved later to be committed by saffron Sangh Parlvar .

~rorists! .

What should be the role of the left parties and student .

groups in such people's movements? .

The CPI(ML)'s role in the struggle at Bathani Tola and Bihar against the Ranveer Sena is a historic one, and still continues. In Bihar recently, the CPI(ML) has successfully led people to complete construction of the road at Forbesganj -where, last year, the struggle against the grab of that road by a local BJP MLC ,faced firing by a .

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communalized police force which killed four villagers from .

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Muslim community. .

The CPf(ML) has led struggles against land grab at Nagdi.

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and is the only party to have made lana grab and eviction the central-issue of a state-wide bandh in Jharkhand. .

In Ramgarh (Dadri) too, it is the CPI(ML) which has reached out to the struggling Dalits and is leadingthe struggleagainst land grab and atrocitieson Dalits. .

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on Birati Rape Case', Gender Ideology in Bengal (EPW, February 2, 1991), wrote: "What...explains her reference to the.

moral and social standing of these women - that they resided in "unauthorised hutments", and that they were engaged in.

"foul professions", were "mistresses" of and had "honeymoons with" men they were not married to? The only relevance.

for such description resides in the unstated assumption that...women require certain sexual and property qualifications.

to be classified as fully legitimate victims... And in case the most besotted believer in the Left Front's general progressive.

potential could have seen in it a painfully distorted yet individual opinion of just one person in the party, the party mouthpiece.

itself, the PD of July 29, 1990, proudly carries the entire statement in a separate box. The CPI(M) moves with brutal.

candour, plugging up all spaces for optimism...I, for one, would have attributed (Gupta's words) to disinformation in the.

`bourgeois press' had I not read them in the People's Democracy..." (Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 26, No. 5, Feb..

2, 1991, pp. 215-218). Shyamali Gupta is now the national President of AIDWA!!!.

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In the Dhantala mass rape case of 2003, the West Bengal Government had dismissed the rape charges as `concocted.

lies.' In another instance of rape of a woman CPI(M) supporter in Cooch Behar in 2003, allegedly by CPIM activists, the.

then State Secretary of the CPI(M) had deemed the charge to be `concocted', and had questioned the `character and.

lifestyle' of the complainant. In the case of the rape and murder of Tapasi Malik in Singur, too, senior CPI(M) leaders.

had made patriarchal insinuations about Tapasi and her family, in order to defend their own cadre who were accused..

.

CPI(M)'s former Kerala CM from CPI(M), the late EK Nayanar, asked about the rash of rape cases in the state, had.

replied: `In the US, rape is as common as drinking tea or coffee; rape is as old as time and will continue as long as there.

are women.' (The Hindu, April 30, 2004).

.

After the Kozhikode sex scandal in Kerala, Nayanar again said, "wherever there are women, there will be a sex.

racket. Sex rackets occur naturally." (Outlook, 22 Dec, 1997).

.

Not long ago, Bihar's Deputy Chief Minister, eager to cover up allegations of rape against an MLA of his party,.

questioned Rupam Pathak's character on TV channels. In Rajasthan, when two Congress Ministers were implicated in.

the murder of a dalit rural health worker, Bhanwari Devi, whom they had been sexually exploiting, the ruling establishment.

resorted to sponsoring media stories about Bhanwari's supposed `bad moral character' and sensational tales of sex and.

blackmail..

.

This trend of branding rape complainants or victims of violence as liars, or turning them into the `accused', by invoking.

their `character,' is rampant in society. But when those in positions of power and responsibility do so, it is even more.

serious and condemnable. If such persons go unpunished, it can only encourage this trend, and embolden perpetrators.

of violence on women..

.

Racial Profiling Compounds Patriarchal Biases.

.

Delhi is notoriously unsafe for women: and women from the North Eastern states are especially vulnerable to assaults..

If Delhi Police habitually blames women encouraging rape through late hours/scanty clothes, etc, this is far more so in.

case of women from the North East, because racial stereotypes and prejudices add to the patriarchal mindset..

.

In 2007, Delhi Police published a booklet titled `Security Tips for Northeast Students/Visitors in Delhi'. This book on.

`security tips' only revealed how insecure women from the North East are in the face of the lascivious, prejudiced gaze of.

Delhi Police officers! The book `advised': "Revealing dress be avoided. Avoid lonely road/bylane when dressed scantily..

Dress according to sensitivity of the local populace.".

.

The book also warned parents of such women to control their daughters: "A proud father sent his only daughter in.

Delhi to make her IAS/IPS ...revealing dressed up parties lass was molested and thrown out from moving vehicle badly.

bruised after being outraged....".

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In society, there is a consensus that `rape, and rapists, are bad.' So no one can openly defend the act.

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of rape. But there are a thousand devious ways in AISA Panel for JNUSU Election 2012.

which rape is justified and rapists protected - by.

somehow questioning the victim's credibility, morality, Central Panel.

background, clothing, etc... It is not enough to protest President : Sucheta De.

against violence on women. Even the right-wing Vice- President : Abhishek Kumar Yadav.

organisations hold protests claiming to be against Gen. Secy. : Ravi Prakash Singh.

Jt. Secy. : Mohd Firoz Ahamed.

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violence on women. Those genuinely struggling SSS SAA Diksha Kumari.

for justice for women who face violence, need to Prince Kumar.

simultaneously challenge the patriarchal tendency to Akbar Chawdhary Agnitra Ghosh Sandeep Saurav.

blame women for such violence, or stand in judgement Sarfaraz Hamid.

on women's `character.' Minakshi Buragohain SIS Tabrez Ahmad.

Omprasad Busan P K D Prasain.

Let's elect a JNUSU committed to a robust struggle to Rakesh Kumar Dibya Shikha.

challenge the patriarchal common sense that breeds, and Shivani Nag Shakeel Anjum.

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justifies, all sorts of violence on women. Every physical or Vijoyeta Deori.

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ideological attack - on women's bodies, their self-respect, Yengkokpam Johnson Singh.

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their freedom, must be resisted tooth and nail! SLL&CS.

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Jt. Secy. : Piyush rai .

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Geeta Kumari SAA Mohd. Azhar Agnitra Ghosh Sandeep Saurav Sarfaraz Hamid CSLG Singh Vikram A run Kumar Anant Prakash Narayan .

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At the frontlines of resistance, .there have always been. students and youth fighting for an alternative politics and a vision of social transformation... .

Today, we live in time when --.

The. State Defends Corporate Profiteering and Suppresses People's Movements... whether in Manesar, Nandigram, Koodankulam, Jagatsinghpur .

Land, Jives and livelihoods of common Indians are sacrificed to make way for corporate profits... .

State repression become~ 'democracy', as Operation Green Hunt, AFSPA and UAPA scuttle dissent... .

Our elected Parliament hands over natural resources to super-rich corporations, for private profiteei-ing... .

qducational institutions become exclusive enclaves of the rich and the privileged .. .

From Azamgarh and Oarbhanga to Mumbai and Delhi, fake . encounters,· illegal detentions and torture of Muslim youth. become the order of the day .. .

Ranveer Sena mass-murderer Brahmeshwar Mukhiya is .

eulogised, while perpetrators ofBathani To/a massacre are acqui~ted... .

Narendra Modi's 'governance' is praised... even as his lieutenants Maya Kodnani and Amit Shah are guilty of communal-massacre and fake encounters .

Employment opportunities diminish, while defence budgets .

and tax subsidies to corporations flo.urish ... .

We live in an age when the model of student politics we articu'late cannot be-one that espouses divisive agendas of communal :and casteist frenzy against social justlfe. It canne>t speak in the voice of the corpqrates or .the administration, but must speak in . favour of students and the people. .

In March 2012, the JNUSU elections were restored after a long and protracted struggle to defend the JNUSU constitution against ~he· imposition of the Lyngdoh Committee recommendations. The mandate of March 2012 was qverwhelmingly .in favour of AISA's vision of student politics. Although the current JNUSU had a very short tenure, every single day of this tenure has been utilized to ,carry forward and strengthen the struggles of the student movement. Several initiatives were taken .

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Initiating the agenda Reduction in High Weightage .

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ensuring concrete advances in the struggle by .

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Conducting Mandatory Gender Sensitization and .

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Forging a National Platform Against the Lyngdoh .

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Institutionalizing Efforts to Make JNU a Barrier-Free .

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Ensuring a Well-equipped and Properly Functioning .

Library including purchase of around 3,700 books .

after 3 years, renovation, digitisation, improved .

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Academic Rejuvenation indifferent schools creating .

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atmosphere of classroom teaching, drop-out rates. .

course restructuring and new courses -a step that .

helped introduce new course-s in SIS, rejection of .

compulsory attendance in SLL&CS BoS, and re-.

opening of ·the issue of integrated BA/MA in .

SLL&CS against its recent dismantnng. .

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Open House on Translation of Academic Texts and .

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JNUSU in its 'Inputs for 12th Plan' proposals demanded .

the creation of a Translation Unit and JNU Press. .

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Operationalizing Tatkal services in Railway .

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Ensuring better hostel allotment policy: hostel .

accommodation for SC/ST/PH stu~ents within.a day .

of applying and simultaneous allotment to General .

and O,BC students and starting a new dormitory at the l .

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Ensuring JNU administration incorporate JNUSU's .

demands in its proposal of 12lh Plan for building 7 .

new hostels. .

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In the face of increasing neo-liberal assaults of fee-hike .

and fund-cut, JNU~Uforced the administration to agree .

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receipt of funds under the 12111 plan, include the demand .

for extending the time period of the UGC noa1-net I .

scholarship to cover the entire period of research in .

its 121h plan proposals to the ·UGC. JNUSU also .

ensured smooth SWITCHOVER .f~om non-.N~t UGC .

scholarship to JRF/SRF so that .students can avail .

th!=! felolowship o'f higher amount ft>r.,~tt:le ·maximum .

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JNUSU's vigilance in the admissi.on process ensured ' .

the release second lists thi§ year for fulfilling .

mandated reservation. .

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Koyna, Shipra, Yamuna .

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Attempts at FeeMhike and User Charges in Mahanadi .

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What Should Guide OurChoice The right-wing student organizations like ABVP, NSUI, YFE are .

open agents of the social and political forces that are .

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all levels: Proper and timely allotment oflabs to all registered unleashing assaults on the people with communal and casteist .

Pressing need ofdemocratization and transparency at frenzy and a whole-range of nee-liberal policies. They must be .

resolutely defeated. But we also need to assessthe democratic parent party CPIM have defended and imposed SEZs, corporatestudents, and streamlining of the system of lab allotment commitment of the so-called "left" groups too. The SFI and its bonafide 'students' on projects or otherwise has severely land grab, police firing on peasants, Operation Green Hunt, based on objective criteria. Large-scale presence ofnon-AFSPA and UAPA; they have remained silent on the witch-hunt curtailed the facilities oflab. space, time, guide's attention of minorities and fake encounters; governments headed by .

and funds meant for registered JNU students! Often such .

engagement becomes the backdoor route for subsequent .

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entry Into direct Ph.D.with project guides, making a mockery CPIM have pursued privatization of education and health and .

robbed workers' rights, peddling the idea that 'TINA' (there is .

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of JNU's rigorous entrance system. There should be all-no alternative) to these policies. If these were SFI's oolicies on .

round transparency in the evaluation by the doctoral a national stage. It is inevitable that its policies inJNUtoo were .

and the entire onus of 'under-performance' must not lie After all, SFI remained alooffrom the long struggle against the.

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committees in clearing progress reports and granting 98 no different. .

Irregular and delayed supply ofchemicals and instruments.

with in science the student schools alonemust . be addressed and lab facilities faulty times "cut-off' during 1983-93criteria . for They OBC defended students setting and never up of bothered a corporate to .

mustbe improved and latest books must be made available restore "deprivation points" despite being in JNUSU forseveral .

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outlet like Nestle inJNU, betrayed the workers' movementand .

for workers' minimum wages. More recently boycotted a united in Tithe mellibrary. y disbursal of various scholarships/fellowships demanded a Proctorial Enquiry on protesting students fighting 'ot~RGtlf~as to ~e .

through the institution ofa proper corpus fund. The CSIR te{'(\and ot~.

movement against locking up of the JNUSU office, on the a\\ te~u\ted years late, which Js justnotacceptable. spurious grounds that the JNUSU office should not be used for lngstot gtea\et.

fellowshipforinstance is often released one and a half 'partisan' purposes -in doing so, strengthening the JNU .

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Immediate redressal of high drop-out rates in SBT and SIT. administration's attempts to 'ban' the activities of the JNU .. and ~otJ..e\s. b Fulfillment of SC/ST/OBC/PH quota in teaching and non-struggleCan we expagainstect suchan administrativeforces to lead banstruggleson a studentfor campusgroup! ~:~~1'\e..

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teaching appointments and an end to the rising trend of .

large-scale guest faculty on ad-hoc basis. democracy, students' and people's rights? And in order to .

Ensuring and Improving school-based library with latest hide its MANY betrayals, SFI predictably launches a campaign ~. .

books and reading materials. .

Burning Questions of Our Time of meaningless slander and lies against A!SA. .

What exactly is at stake: in the days to come, will JNUSU .

remain a genuine platform ofstruggle against anti-student anti-.

Forthe JNU students' movement, there has never been an people policies, orsolidarity wff.h people's movements? .

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artificial wall between 'campus' struggles and people's By resisting attacks, by imagining new futures, and .

platform of solidarity with peoples' democratic struggles and .

movements beyond the campus. JNUSU has always been a institutionalizingprogressive changes, A/SA has evolvedand .

movements across the country. JNU has always been proud articulateda radical andcreative vision ofpolitics in JNU. It .

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this tradition of solidarity. In the coming days, the student has played a vanguard role in addressing the burning questions .

of ourtime. We need to defend this model ofJNUSUwhich is JNUSU, and the coming student unions have to be given a committed to build a strong, robust resistance to assaults on community will be voting for a JNUSU after four long years. This studentrights and campus democracy andstruggle fora secular, .

mandate to carry forward this tradition. .

the voice ofthose who have always been marginalized: democratic, socially-inclusive and gender-sensff.ive JNU and .

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JNUSU necessarilyneeds this vision and commitmenttobe .

society atlarge. ts\agesot .

those social forces who are defending their lands and Re-electAISA I Ensure JNUSU remains true to its fighting ~noo\ - olsoOO uGClivelihoods against corporate land grab and plunder of natural vision and mission II e \ace ot fun· resources. Central Panel scno\afsn\'.

those who are fighting against communal common sense .

prevalent in society, resisting fake encounters and framing of President: Sucheta De .

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Vice-President : Abhlshek Kumar Yad.lv .

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those who are resisting state repression, Operation Green Gen. Secy. : Ravi Prakash Singh.

innocents. Jt. Secy.: Mohd Firoz Abamed teaseO·sLL&CS.

Hunt, and other state-sponsored assaults to curb people's 1~:z.ad.

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movements. sss Agnitra Ghosh Prince Kumar 1 .

those opposing the US-dictated nuclear overdrive by the .

Akbar Chawdhary Sandeep Saurav.

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Manmohan Singh govt, and proposed nuclear power plants Minakshi Buragohain Susan PK DPrasain Sarfaraz Hamid .

in Koodankulam, Jaitapur, Fatehabad and elsewhere. Omprasad Dibya Shikha TabrezAhmad .

those who are opposing draconian laws like AFSPA, UAPA, .

PSAin the North-East, Kashmir, in the mineral-rich belts, and .

Rakesh Kumar Shakeel Anjum.

Shivani Nag Vijoyeta Deori .

those struggling for their autonomy, identity, and statehood, Johnson Singh.

elsewhere in the country. .

those who are resisting neo-colonialism and imperialism .

as in Telangana and Gorkhaland. Vismay Basu, Plyush Raj, Central Campaign Co-ordinators .

in its varied forms: in Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Egypt. .. those who are resisting the genocide and subjugatio,n or -.

the Tamils in Sri Lanka -· -WUIQII. AZ8CI .

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process for the Maulana Azad felloWship has to beD _ ...-..~ vv,u, revltafising the existing .

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act1vists. and various democratic organisations in JNU were not systematically sought before embarking on the survey. resulted in these serious problems. .

For instance, questions have been raised from the student community regarding Question No 2(f), which uses the term 'North East', as well as other terms relating to continental and national identities, on par with terms like 'white', 'dark' and 'fair', relating to colour and appearance. The racial assumptions that underlie the phrasing of the question are very problematic. The sense in which words and phrases have been used is vague. And the wording of the question is so misleading and confused that the responses to the question cannot be taken as a reliable indicator or guide to the attitude of the respondent. .

The questions relating to CCTV cameras as a measure .

to curb sexual harassment (Question 11) are also problematic. These questions have been posed, devoid of any context for t11e debate. In case a majority of those who chose to respond to the questionnaire, 'strongly agree' that CCTVs are called for, then the Administration could use this survey to push for CCTV cameras on campus -which would be a highly draconian move, that could violate the privacy of students. .

-Anothor 9uestion is: vvho will bo the custodian of' tho .

private, sensitive data obtained by this survey? GSCASH has not conducted it. so GSCASH cannot be a custodian of this data. .

These and other problematic aspects of such a sensitive survey could well have been avoided, had the survey been conducted through the GSCASH institution, following thorough, transparent discussion, and serious inputs by experienced women academics and activists. By failing to do so, the survey actually does an injustice to the cause of promoting gender sensitivity and the struggle against sexual harassment on the campus. .

Any serious survey of this nature, should have been initiated by the GSCASH, taking on board the participation of various faculty members and academicians with long experience in the women's movement, in order for it to be truly sound and helpful to GSCASH. .

The SFI-JNU's Double Standards on Gender .

, The SF_I-JNU is trying to claim great sensitivity to gender. Well and good -but before doing so, they should let the JNU campus know: .

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continues to defend the perpetrators of the brutal gang-.

rape and murder of Tapasi Malik at Singur, and sexual .

violence at Nandigram? .

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Why is SFI-JNU yet to come up with any critique of the .

long series of sexist and patriarchal statements by .

top CPI(M) leaders? Let us remind them tliat CPI(M) .

CC member Benoy Konar, asked CPI(M) cadres to .

expose their backsides to Medha Patkar; former Kerala .

CM from CM, the lat~ EK Nayanar said, "rape is as .

common a~ drinking loa or coffee; rape is as old as .

time and will continue as long as there are women'~ .

the late EMS Namboodiripad, lashed out against .

Arundhati Roy's God of Small Things, accusing her of .

celebrating her own divorced mother's 'deviant sexual .

relations· with a Dalit man as ·revolutiona1y ; and after .

the infamous Birati rape case in 1991, CPI(M) leader .

Shyarnali Gupta, who is now the President of the .

CPI(M)'s women's wing AIDWA, said about the .

victims: "Many women of that area, including Shanti .

Das (a victim), the mistress of a notorious anti-social, .

were involved in foul professions and such honeymoons .

of these women with the anti-socials were an open .

secret. that day's events appeared "to be a sequel to .

the rivalry between these anti-socials", and this .

statement was published in full by the CPI(M)'s .

party organ, People's Democracy! (cited in Tanika .

Sarkar, 'Reflections on Birati Rape Case', Gender .

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Ideology in Bengal, EPW,· February 2, 1991.) SFI-JNU is yet to utter a word of condemnation or critique of .

CPI(M) for the se grievous and shocking displays of patriarchal ideQ!Qgy by its top leaders! When SFI in both its avatars, and CPI(M), display double .

standards by refusin·g tci"C;oiidemrdlie anti-woman words and deeds of ~heir own comrades on the· issue of gender, when they refuse" to question the patriarchal stances and distorted gender ideology of their own party, they only " end up strengthening the patriarchal and anti-woman agenda of the right-wing forces. -.

For a JNUSU that will Struggle for a Gender-Sensitive JNU and Against Gen.der. Viofe"nce·~arid · ·· Di~crimination on Campu~ and in Society -.

Renew AISA's· Mandate in JNUSU! .

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Madhubani Sen Vishwambhar Nath Prajapati .

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AISAPanel for JNUSU Election 2012 .

Central Panel .

President : Omprasad .

Vice-President : Minakshi Buragohain .

Gen. Secy. : Shakeel Anjum .

Jt. Secy : Piyush Raj .

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SLL&CS SIS SAA Geeta Kumari Ashutosh Kumar Agnitra G~osh Mohd. Azhar Dlbya Shikha Sandeep Saurav Pavan Kumar Sarfaraz Hamid Sukrita Lahiri CSLG Singh Vikram Arun Kumar Tiamongl_a 'lmchen Anant Prakash Narayan .

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Condolences AISA Panel for JNUSU Election 2012 AISA expresses its deepest condolences over the .12 .

Central Panel untimely demise of Girdhariji, a mess worker in Jhelum. He passed away aftersuffering a massive heart . President Omprasad attack. We offer our heatfelt condolences to his friends ~";.

11.9.12 Vice. President ·Minakshi Buragohain ~ !Ia .

' Gen. Secy.. Shakeel Anjum and family. t%.

Jt. Secy , Piyush Raj .

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sss Justice eludes the Oalit massacres at Bathani Tala, .

Akbar Chawdhary SIS qqn .

as the police, political powers, and feuda~ forces collude.

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Anubhuti Agnes Bara Ashutosh Kumar Paramakudi, Khairlanji, Mumbai's Ramabai Nagar -!S'fl\!11 ld.

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Vishwambhar Nath Prajapati Sukrita lahiri itselfagainst the struggling Dalits! .

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At Ramgarh village in Dadri, not far from the national .

Geeta Kumari S"-A .

capttal, Dalit youth struggling against grab of panthayat land .

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Mohd. Azhar Agnitra Ghosh allocated to Dalits are jailed on false charges. and one youth's .

Sandeep Saurav CSLG.

Sarfaraz Hamid Anant Prakash Narayan legs are chopped off. .

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Singh Vikram Arun Kumar The fate of migrants is truly tragic and frightening. .

Chased from Myanmar, the Rohingya Muslims flee -but .

Burning Questions of Our Tlmes and are denied shelter everywhere. In India, the communal fascists ~.

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tt,e Role of JNUSU run a virulent hate campaign against these abjectly poor ~; .

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JNUSU and JNU students have had to wage many tough people, who areforced to survive somehow without a roof .

struggles for students' rights, social inclusion, and against above their heads and without the right to earn a living. .

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encounters lie buried are being unearthed. And with those .

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grim skeletons of innocent youth murdered in cold blood in ff.

Koodankulam -women and children included -are the name of 'nation' and 'security', the truth about India's .

facing a terrible assault. Peacefully, they sat in front of a l .

m1ghty nuclear plant, opposing the loading of reactors. A democracy also rises to the surface. ,.I .

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huge posse of poltce assaulted them with lathis and tear of innocent Muslim youth is becoming a veritable .

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gas canisters. The protesting people had nowhere to run .

epidemic. Azamgarh. Darbhanga, Batla House. Malegaon. .

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but intothe sea. At least one person has been shot dead, Mecca Masjid. Yerawada Jail -all are sites where terrible .

the main leader of the Kookankulam struggle, SP .

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injustice is being done. The Jives of innocents is snatched .

Udayakumar, has been shot at, and large numbers of .

people including children are severely injured, and away or ruined-for crimes that. in many cases. have been .

arrestsareongoing. Even media personstrying to cover proved later to be committed by saffron Sangh Parivar .

the assault have been severely beaten up. terrorists! .

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groups in such people's movements?.

Governmentpromulgated the draconian AFSPA. Today, The CPI(ML)'s role in the struggle at Bathani Tela and Bihar .

that infamousAct still exists-as a license to armed forces. .

to kill, rape, and enjoy impunity. On this day, let is salute against the Ranveer Sena is a historic one, and still .

conttnues. In Bihar recently, theCPI(ML) has successfully.

the strugglesof Irom Sharmita and the women of the North .

East for the scrapping of AFSPA! led people to complete construction of the road at .

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Corporate land grab forSEZs, mining loot, and plunder Forbesganj -where. last year. the struggle against the .

grab of that road by a local BJP MLC faced firing by a .

of forests, has become the order of the day. The communalized police force which killed four villagers from .

adivasis of Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, West .

Bengal, resist corporate plunder and land grab -and Muslim comrnunity. .

The CPt(Ml) has led strugglesagainst land grabat Nagdi .

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they are-branded as 'Maoists' and 'hunted' as part of the and is the only party to have made land grab and eviction .

Green Hunt Operation. Innocent adivasi children are .

massacred~'Maoists' in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur. Adivasls the central issue of a state-wide bandh in Jharkhand. .

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inJharkhand's Nagdi and surrounding villages are battling In Ramgarh (Dadri) too, it is the CPI(ML) whichhasreached .

a massive eviction drive. In Jagatsinghpurin Odisha, the .

out to the struggling Oalits and isleadingthestruggleagainst .

peopleprotesting the POSCO SEZ continue towagea brave land grab and atrocities on Dalits. .

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activists. and various democratic organisations in JNU were .

not systematically sought before embarking on the survey, Why are they yet silent on the way in which CPI(M) re~ulted in these serious problems. continues to defend the perp.etrators of the brutal gang-rape and murder of Tapasi Malik at Singur, and sexualFor instance, questions have been raised from the violence at Nandigram?.

student community regarding Question No 2(f), whichJ uses the term ' Why is SFI-JNU yet to come up with any critique of the.

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relating to continental and national identities, on par long series of sexist and patriarchal statements bywith terms like 'white', 'dark' top CPI(M) leaders? Let us remind them that CPI(M).

t} c and 'fair', relating to n colour and appearance. The racial assumptions that CC member Benoy Konar, asked CPI(M) cadres to T underlie the phrasing of the question are ·very problematic. expose their backsides to Medha Patkar; former Kerala of The sense in which words and phrases have been used is CM from CM, the late EK Nayanar said, "rape is asvague. And the wording of the question is so misleading and common as drinking tea or coffee; rape is as old asfrc confused that the responses to the question cannot be taken time and will continue as long as there are womenn;w as a reliable indicator or guide to the attitude of the the late EMS Namboodiripad, lashed out againststc respondent. Arundhati Roy'.

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chose to respond to the questionnaire, 'strongly agree' that CPI(M)'s women's wing AIDWA, said about thecon CCTVs are called for, then the Administration could use.

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has not conducted it. so GSCASH cannot be a custodian of statement was published in ful'l by the CPI(M)this data. 's.

The< These and other problematic aspects of such a sensitive party organ, People's Democracy! (cited in Tanika.

of stt Sarkar, 'Reflections on Birati Rape Case'. Genderkeepi survey could well have been avoided, had the survey been Ideology in Bengal, EPW, February 2, 1991 .).

GSC.L conducted through the GSCASH institution, followingfeatur thorough, transparent discussion, and serious inputs by SFI-JNU is yet to utter a word of condemnation or critique ofWome experienced women academics and activists. By failing to CPI(M) for these grievous and shocking displays ofpatriarchal ideology by its top leaders!are S do so, the survey actually does an injustice to the cause of.

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harassment on the campus..

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Also, tt Any serious survey of this nature. should have been initiatedby the GSCASH, taking on board the participation of various when they refuse to question the patriarchal stances and.

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faculty members and academicians with long experience in up strengthening the patriarchal and anti.:.woman agenda of.

There a the women's movement. in order for it to be truly sound and.

elected helpful to GSCASH. the right-wing forces. .

the GSC .

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JNU campus know: Discrimination on Campus and in Society -.

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JNUSA., AISAPanel for JNUSU Election 2012.

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academic' Central Panel.

NGO and President : Omprasad.

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Akbar Chawdhary SAA .

Anubhuti Agnes Sara Geeta Kumari Ashutosh Kumar.. Agnitra G~oshMohd.Azhar.

Chintu Dibya Shikha.

Sandeep Sayrav.

Madhubani Sen Sarfar:az Hamid · Pavan Kumar .

Vishwambhat Nath Prajap.ati Sukrita tahiri CSLGSingh Vikram Arun Kumar Tiamongla lmchen Anant.Pra~asb Narayan .

Sd/-Shivani Nag, Ravi Prakash, AISA CentrafCampaign Co-ordinators .

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Pressing need ofdemocratization and transparency at all levels: Properand timely allotment oflabs to all registered students, and streamlining of the system of lab allotment based on objective criteria. Large-scale presence of non-bonafide 'students' on projects or otherwise has severely curtailed the facilities of lab. space, time, guide's attention and funds meant for registered JNU students! Often such engagement becomes the backdoor route for subsequent entry into directPh.D.With project guides, making a mockery of JNU's rigorous entrance system. There should be all-round transparency in the evaluation by the doctoral committees in clearing progress reports and granting 98 and the entire onus of 'under-performance' must not lie with the student alone. .

Irregularand delayed supply ofchemicals and instruments in science schools must be addressed and lab facilities mustbe improved and latestbooks must be made available in thelibrary. .

Timely disbursal of various scholarships/fellowships through the institution of a proper corpus fund. The CSIR fellowship for instance is often released one and a half years late, which is just notacceptable. .

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Immediate redres::~al of high drop-out rates in SBT and SIT. .

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Fulfillment of SC/ST/OBC/PH quota in teaching and non-teaching appointments and an end to the rising trend of large-scale guest faculty on ad-hoc basis. .

.

.

Ensuring and Improving school-based library with latest books and reading materials. .

.

.

Burning Questions of Our Time.

-.

Forthe JNU students' movement, there has never been an artificial wall between 'campus' struggles and people's movements beyond the campus. JNUSU has always been a platform of soljdarity with peoples' democratic struggles and movements across the country. JNU has always been proud this tradition of solidarity. In the coming days, the student communitywill be voting fora JNUSU after four long years.This JNUSU, and the coming student unions have to be given a mandate to carry forward this tradition. .

JNUSU necessarilyneeds this vision and commitmentto be the voice ofthose who havealways been marginalized: .

.

.

those social forces who are defending their lands and livelihoods against corporate land grab and plunder of natural resources. .

.

.

those who are fighting against communal common sense prevalent in society, resisting fake encounters and framing of innocents. .

.

.

those who are resisting state repression, Operation Green f Hunt, and other state·sponsored assaults to curb people's ( movements. .

those opposing the US-dictated nuclear overdrive by the Manmohan Singh govt, and proposed nuclear power plants.

f .

in Koodankulam, Jaitapur, Fatehabad and elsewhere. .

those who are opposing draconian laws like AFSPA, UAPA,.

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elsewhere in the country..

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those struggling for their autonomy, identity, and statehood,.

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as in Telangana and Gorkhaland. .

.

those who are resisting neo-colonialism and imperialism in itsvaried forms: in Palestine, Iraq,Afghanistan, Egypt. .. .

.

.

those who are resisting the genocide and subjugation of the Tamils in Sri Lanka .

.

.

The right-wing student organizations like ABVP, NSUI, YFE are open agents of the social and political forces that a~e unleashing assaults on the people with communal and casteast frenzy and a whole-range ofneo-liberal policies. They must be resolutely defeated. But we also need to assessthe democratic commitment of the so-called "left" groups too. The SFI and its parent party CPIM have defended and imposed SFZs, corporate land grab, police firing on peasants, Operation Green Hunt, AFSPA and UAPA; they have remained silent on the witch-hunt of minorities and fake encounters; governments headed by CPIM have pursued privatization of education and health and robbed workers' rights, peddling the idea that 'TINA' (there is no alternative) to these policies. If these were SFI's policies on a national stage.it is inevitable that its policies in JNU too were no different. .

After all, SFI remained alooffrom the long struggle against the faulty "cut-off' criteria for OBC students and never bothered to restore "deprivation points" despite being in JNUSU forseveral times during 1983-93. They defended setting up ofa corporate outlet lik.e Nestle inJNU, betrayed the workers' movementand demanded a Proctorial Enquiry on protesting studentsftghting forworkers' minimum wages. More recently boycotteda united movement against locking up of the JNUSU office, on the spurious grounds that the JNUSU office should notbe used for 'partisan' purposes -in doing so, strengthening the JNU administration's attempts to 'ban' the activitjes of the JNU Forum. Not just this, SFI completely boycotted the protracted struggle against an administrative ban on a student group! Can we expect such forces to lead struggles for campus democracy, students' and people's rights? And in order to hide its MANY betrayals, SFI predictably launches a campaign of meaningless slander and lies againstAJSA. .

What exactly is at stake: in the days to come, will JNUSU remain a genuine platform ofstruggle against anti-student anti-people policies, orsolidarity with people's movements? .

By resisting attacks, by imagining new futures, and institutionalizjngprogressive changes,AJSA has evolved and articulateda radical and creative vision ofpolitics in JNU. It hasplayeda vanguard role in addressing the burning questions ofour time. We need to defend this model of JNUSU which is committed to build a strong, robust resistance to assaults on studentrights and campus democracyand struggle for a secular, democratic, socially-inclusive and gender-sensitive JNU and society at large: .

Re-elect AISA I Ensure JNUSU remains true to its fighting vision and mission U .

Central Panel .

President : Sucbeta De .

Vice-President : Abbfshek Kumar Yacbv .

Gen. Secy. : bvl Prakash Singh .

Jt. Secy. : Mobd Firoz Ahamed .

.

--·--~ S"A SLL&CS .

Akbar Chawdhary Agnitra Ghosh Diksha Kumart .

Minakshi Buragohain Omprasad Rakesh Kumar Shivani Nag SIS Busan PKDPrasain Dibya Shikha Shakeel Anjum PrinceKumar Sandeep Saurav Sarfaraz Hamid TabrezAhmad .

Vijoyeta Deori .

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Yengkokpam Johnson Singh Vlsmay Basu, Plyush Raj, Central Campaign Ccrordinators .

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activists. and various democratic organisations in JNU were .

not systematically sought before embarking on the survey, Why are they yet silent on the way in which CPI(M).

resulted in these serious problems. continues to defend the perpetrators ofthe brutal gang-.

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For instance, questions have been raised from the rape and murder of Tapasi Malik at Singur, and sexual.

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violence at Nandigram?' student community regarding Question No 2(f), whichJ uses the term 'North East', as well as other terms Why is SFI-JNU yet to come up with any critique of thel relating to continental and national identities, on par long series of sexist and patriarchal statements by I< } with terms like 'white', 'dark' and 'fair', relating to top CPI(M) leaders? Let us remind them that CPI(M) .

n colour and appearance. The racial assumptions that CC member Benoy Konar, asked CPI(M) cadres to .

T underlie the phrasing of the question are very problematic. expose their backsides to Medha Patkar; former Kerala .

ot The sense in which words and phrases have been used is CM from CM, the late EK Nayanar said, "rape is as.

vague. And the wording of the question is so misleading and common as drinking tea or coffee; rape is as old asfrc confused that the responses to the question cannot be taken time and will continue as long as there are women";w as a reliable indicator or guide to the attitude of thestc respondent. the late EMS Namboodiripad, lashed out against.

Arundhati Roy's God of Small Things, accusing her ofAt The questions relating to CCTV cameras as a measure celebrating her own divorced mother's '.

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deviant sexualare to curb sexual harassment (Question 11} are also relations' with a Dalit man as 'revolutionary'; and afterJN problematic. These questions have been posed. devoid of the infamous Birati rape case in 1991, CPI{M) leader.

ger any context for the debate. In case a majority of those who.

thi~ Shyamali Gupta, who is now the President of the.

' -chose to respond to the questionnaire, 'strongly agree' thatcon CCTVs are called for, then the Administration could use CPI(M)'s women's wing AIDWA, said about the this survey to push for CCTV cameras on campus -victims: "Many women of that area, including Shanti .

"' ' .

Thh helc which would be a highly draconian move, that could Das (a victim), the mistress of a notorious anti-social,JNL violate the privacy of students. were involved in foul professions and such honeymoons .

cone of these women with the anti-socials were an open .

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rewc Another question is: who will be the custodian of the secret, that day's events appeared to be a sequel to.

private, sensitive data obtained by this survey? GSCASH .

the rivalry between these anti-socials", and this.

The has not conducted it. so GSCASH cannot be a custodian ofthis data. statement was published in full by the CPI(M)'s.

The c .

party organ, People's Democracy! (cited in Tanika.

of stt These and other problematic aspects of such a sensitive Sarkar, 'Reflections on Birati Rape Case', Gender.

,. keepi survey could well have been avoided, had the survey been Ideology in Bengal, EPW, February 2, 1991.).

·1 GSCt conducted through the GSCASH institution, followingfeatur thorough, transparent discussion, and serious inputs by SFI-JNU is yet to utter a word of condemnation or critique ofWome experienced women academics and activists. By failing to CPI(M) for these grievous and shocking displays ofpatriarchal ideology by its top leaders!'.

are S do so, the survey actually does an injustice to the cause ofthis Bi promoting gender sensitivity and the struggle against sexual When SFI in both its avatars, and CPI(M), display double'falseharassment on the campus..

' standards by refusing to condemn the anti-woman wordshostile and deeds of their own comrades on the issue ·of gender,.

Also, tt Any serious survey of this nature, should have been initiatedby the GSCASH. taking on board the participation of various when they refuse to question the patriarchal stances and.

agricult distorted gender ideology of their own party, they only end.

faculty members and academicians with long experience in up strengthening the patriarchal and anti,;.woman agenda of.

There a the women's movement, in order for it to be truly sound andelected helpful to GSCASH. the right-wing forces. ·.

the GSC The SF'I-JNU's Double Standards on Gender.

for norr For a JNUSU that will Struggle for a Gender-.

and mer The SFI-JNU is trying to claim great sensitivity to gender. Sensitive JNU and Against Gender Violence and.

from on Well and good -but before doing ·so, they s~ould let the Discrimination on Campus.and in Society -·.

JNU campus know:.

JNU ha · member~ Renew AISA's Mandate in JNUSU!and one 11elected JNUSA, AISAPanel for JNUSU Election2012GSGASH academicl Central Panel NGO and President : Omprasad.

we have ·.. Vice-President : Minakshi Buragohain .

eeommer" '' Gen. Secy : Shakeel Anjum.

Jt. Secy. : Piyush Raj.

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sss SLL&CS . SISAkbar Chawdhary SAA .

I Anubhuti Agnes Bara Geeta Kumari Ashutosh Kumar Agnitra Ghosh.

Mohd. Azhar.

Chintu Dibya Shikha.

Sandeep Saurav.

Madhubani Sen Sarfar:az Hamid · Pavan KumarSukrita Lahiri CSLG.

Vishwambhat Nath Prajapati Singh Vikram Arun Kumar Tiamongla lmchen Anant Prakasb Narayan .

Sd/-Shivani Nag, Ravi P·rakash, AISA Central Campaign Co-ordinators .

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Science Schools .

Pressing need ofdemocratization and transparency at all levels: Proper and timely allotment oflabs to all registered studonte, ond ttrQ2mlining of thP. system of lab allotment based on objective criteria. Large-scale presence of non-bonafide 'students' on projects or otherwise has severely curtailed the facilities of lab. space, time, guide's attention and funds meant for registered JNU students! Often such engagement becomes the backdoor route for subsequent entry into direct Ph.D. with project guides, making a mockery of JNU's rigorous entrance system. There should be all-round transparency in the evaluation by the doctoral committees in clearing progress reports and granting 98 and the entire onus of 'under-performance' must not lie .

with the student alone. .

.

Irregular and delayed supply of chemicals and instruments .

.

in science schools must be addressed and lab facilities must be improved and latest books must be made available In the library. .

.

.

Timely disbursal of various scholarships/fellowships through the institution of a proper corpus fund. The CSIR fellowship for instance is often released one and a half years late, which is just not acceptable. .

.

.

Immediate redressal of high drop-out rates in SBT and SIT. .

.

.

Fulfillment of SC/ST/OBC/PH quota in teaching and non-teaching appointments and an end to the rising trend of large-scale guest faculty on ad-hoc basis. .

.

.

Ensuring and Improving school-based library with latest books and reading materials. .

.

.

Burning Questions of Our Time .

For the JNU students' movement, there has never been an .

artificial wall between 'campus' struggles and people's movements beyond the campus. JNUSU has always been a platform of solidarity with peoples' democratic struggles and movements across the country. JNU has always been proud this tradition of solidarity. In the coming days, the student community will be voting for a JNUSU after four long years. This JNUSU, and the coming student unions have to be given a mandate to carry forward this tradition. .

JNUSU necessarily needs this vision and commitmentto be the voice ofthose who have always been marginalized: .

.

those social forces who are defending their lands and livelihoods against corporate land grab and plunder of natural resources. .

.

.

those who are fighting against communal common sense prevalent in society, resisting fake encounters and framing of innocents. .

.

.

those who are resisting state repression, Operation Green Hunt, and other state-sponsored assaults to curb people's movements. .

.

.

those opposing the US-dictated nuclear overdrive by the Manmohan Singh govt, and proposed nuclear power plants in Koodankulam, Jaitapur, Fatehabad and elsewhere. .

.

.

those who are opposing draconian laws like AFSPA, UAPA, PSA in the North-East, Kashmir, in the mineral-rich belts, and elsewhere in the country. .

.

.

those struggling for their autonomy, identity, and statehood, as in Telangana and Gorkhaland. .

.

.

those who are resisting neo-colonialism and imperialism in its varied forms: in Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Egypt. .. .

.

.

those who are resisting the genocide and subjugation of the Tamils in Sri Lanka .

.

.

What Shuuld Guide our ~IIOICU .

--· .

The right-wing student organizations likeABVP, NSUI, YFE are .

open agents of the social and political forces that are .

unleashing assaults on the people with communal and casteist .

frenzy and a whole-range of neo-ttoerat policies. They mul:ll be .

resolutely defeated. But we also need to assess the democratic .

commitment ofthe so-called "left" groups too. The SFI and its .

parent party CPIM have defended and imposed SEZs, corporate .

land grab, police firing on peasants, Operation Green Hunt, .

AFSPA and UAPA; they have remained silent on the witch-hunt .

of minorities and fake encounters; governments headed by .

CPIM have pursued privatization of education and health and .

robbed workers' rights, peddling the idea that TINA' (there is .

no alternative) to these policies. If these were SFI's policies on .

a national stage, It is inevitable that its policies In JNU too were .

no different. .

After all, SFI remained aloof from the long struggle against the faulty 11 CUt-off'' criteria for OBC students and never bothered to restore "deprivation points" despite being in JNUSU for several times during 1983-93. They defended setting up of a corporate outlet like Nestle In JNU, betrayed the workers' movementand demanded a Proctorial Enquiry on protesting students fighting for workers' minimum wages. More recently boycotted a united movement against locking up of the JNUSU office, on the .

spurious grounds that the JNUSU office should not be used for 'partisan' purposes -in doing so, strengthening the JNU administration's attempts to 'ban' the activities of the JNU Forum. Not just this, SFI completely boycotted the protracted struggle against an administrative ban on a student group I Can we expect such forces to lead struggles for campus democracy, students' and people's rights? And in order to hide its MANY betrayals, SFI predictably launches a campaign of meaningless slander and lies against AI SA. .

What exactly Is at stake: in the days to come, will JNUSU remain a genuine platform ofstruggle against anti-student anti-people policies, orsolidarity with people's movements? .

By resisting attacks, by imagining new futures, and institutionalizingprogressive changes, A/SA has evolved and articulateda radical andcreative vision ofpolitics In JNU. It has played a vanguard role in addressing the burning questions ofour time. We need to defend this model ofJNUSU which is committed to build a strong, robust resistance to assaults on student rights and campus democracy andstruggle for asecular, democratic, socially-inclusive and gender-sensitive JNU and society at large: .

Re-electAISA I Ensure JNUSU remains true to Its fighting vision and mission II .

Central Panel .

President : Sucheca De .

Vice-President : Abhishek Kumar Yadav .

Gen. Secy. : Ravi Prakash Slngb .

Jt. Secy. : Mohd Firoz Ahamed .

.

SLL&CS .

=rChawdhary I=ra Ghosh Diksha Kumari .

Minakshi Buragohain SIS Prince Kumar .

Omprasad Busan p K 0 Prasaln Sandeep Saurav .

Rakesh Kumar Dibya Shlkha Sarfaraz Hamid .

Shivanl Nag Shakeel Anjum TabrezAhmad .

Vijoyeta Deori .

.

Yengkokpam Johnson Singh .

.

Vismay Basu, Piyush Raj, Central Campaign Co-ordinators .

.

.

Science Schools .

.

Pressing need ofdemocratization and transparency at all levels: Proper and timely allotment oflabs to all registered students, and streamlining of the system of lab allotment based on objective criteria. Large-scale presence of non-bonafide 'students' on projects or otherwise has severely curtailed the facilities of lab. space, time, guide's attention and funds meant for registered JNU students! Often such engagement becomes the backdoor route for subsequent entry into direct Ph.D. with project guides, making a mockery of JNU's rigorous entrance system. There should be all-round transparency in the evaluation by the doctoral committees in clearing progress reports and granting 98 and the entire onus of ·under-performance' must not lie with the student alone. .

.

.

Irregular and delayed supply of chem1cals and instruments in science schools must be addressed and lab facilities must be improved and latest books must be made available in the library. .

.

.

Timely disbursal of various scholarships/fellowships through the institution of a proper corpus fund. The CSIR fellowship for instance is often released one and a half years late, which is just not acceptable. .

.

.

Immediate redressal of high drop-out rates in SBT and SIT. .

.

.

Fulfillment of SC/ST/OBC/PH quota in teaching and non-teaching appointments and an end to the rising trend of large-scale guest faculty on ad-hoc basis. .

.

.

Ensuring and Improving school-based library with latest books and ieading materials. .

.

.

Burning Questions of Our Time .

~ .

For the JNU students' movement, there has never been an artificial wall between 'campus' struggles and people's movements beyond the campus. JNUSU has always been a platform of solidarity with peoples' democratic struggles and movements across the country. JNU has always been proud this tradition of solidarity. In the commg days, the student community will be voting for a JNUSU after four long years. This JNUSU, and the coming student unions have to be given a mandate to carry forward this tradition. .

JNUSU necessarily needs this vision and commitmentto be the voice ofthose who have always been marginalized: .

those social forces who are defending their lands and .

livelihoods against corporate land grab and plunder of natural resources. .

.

those who are fighting against communal common sense prevalent in society, resisting fake encounters and framing of innocents. .

.

.

those who are resisting state repression, Operation Green .

.

.

Hunt, and other state-sponsored assaults to curb people's movements. .

.

those opposing the US-dictated nuclear overdrive by the Manmohan Singh govt, and proposed nuclear power plants in Koodankulam, Jaitapur, Fatehabad and elsewhere. .

.

.

those who are opposing draconian laws like AFSPA, UAPA, PSA in the North-East, Kashmir, in the mineral-rich belts, and elsewhere in the country. .

.

.

those struggling for their autonomy, identity, and statehood, as in Telangana and Gorkhaland. .

.

.

those who are resisting neo-colonialism and imperialism in its varied forms: in Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Egypt. .. .

.

.

those who are resisting the genocide and subjugation of the Tamils in Sri Lanka .

.

.

What Should Guide Our Choice .

The right-wing student organizations likeABVP, NSUI, YFE are opon agents of the social and political forces that ~ unleashing assaults on the people with communal and casteis\ frenzy and a whole-range of nee-liberal policies. They must be resolutely defeated. But we also need to assess the democratic commitment of the so-called "lett groups too. The SFI and its parent party CPIM have defended and imposed SEZs, corporate land grab, police firing on peasants, Operation Green Hunt, AFSPA and UAPA; they have remamed silent on the witch-hunt of minorities and fake encounters; governments headed by CPIM have pursued privatization of education and health and robbed workers' rights, peddling the idea that 'TINA' (there is no alternative) to these policies. Ifthese were SFI's policies on a national stage, it is inevitable that its policies in JNU too were no different. .

After all, SFI remained aloof from the long struggle against the faulty "cut-off' criteria for OBC students and never bothered to restore "deprivation points" despite being in JNUSU for several times during 1983-93. They defended setting up of a corporate outlet like Nestle in JNU, betrayed the workers' movementand demanded a Proctorial Enquiry on protesting students fighting for workers' minimum wages. More recenUy boycotted a united movement against locking up of the JNUSU office, on the spurious grounds that the JNUSU office should not be used for 'partisan' purposes -in doing so, strengthening the JNU administration's attempts to 'ban' the activities of the JNU Forum. Not just this, SFI completely boycotted the protracted struggle against an administrative ban on a student group! Can we expect such forces to lead struggles for campus democracy, students' and people's rights? And in order to hide its MANY betrayals, SFI predictably launches a campaign of meaningless slander and lies against AI SA. .

What exactly is at stake: in the days to come, will JNUSU remain a genuine platform of struggle against anti-student anti-people policies, orsolidarity with people's movements? .

By resisting attacks, by imagining new futures, and institutionalizing progressive changes, A/SA has evolvedand articulateda radical and creative vision ofpolitics In JNU. It has played a vanguard role in addressing the burning questions ofour time. We need to defend this model ofJNUSU which is committed to build a strong, robust resistance to assaults on studentrights and campus democracy andstruggle for a secular, democratic, socially-inclusive and gender-sensitive JNU and society at large. .

Re-elect AISA I Ensure JNUSU remains true to its fighting vision and mission II .

Central Panel .

President Sucheta De .

Vice-President : Abhishek Kumar Yadav .

Gen. Secy. : Ravi Prakash Singh .

Jt. Secy. : Mohd Firoz Ahamed .

.

sss SI'.A SLL&CS Akbar Chawdhary Agnitra Ghosh Diksha Kumari .

Mlnakshi Buragohain Prince Kumar.

SIS .

Omprasad Sandeep Saurav.

Susan PK0 Prasain.

Rakesh Kumar .

Sarfaraz Hamid.

Dibya Shikha.

Shivanl Nag .

TabrezAhmad.

Shakeel Anjum Vijoyeta Deori YengkokpamJohnson .

-.

Vismay Basu, Piyush Raj , Central Campaign Co-ordinators . .

.

.

__,' .

.

.

Science Schopls .

Pressing need ofdemocratization and transparency at all levels: Proper and timely allotment of labsto all registered .

Ill .

students,.and streamlining of the system of lab allotment .

.

-based on objective crit·eria. Large-scale presence of non-bonafide~students' on projects or otherwise has severely curtailed the facilities of lab. space, time, guide's attention and funds meant for registered JNU students! Often such engagement becomes the backdoor route 'for subsequent entry into direct Ph.D. with project guides, making a mockery of JNU's rigorous entrance system. There should be all-round transparency in the evaluation by the doctoral committees in clearing progress reports and granting 98 and the entire onus of 'under-performance' must not lie with the student alone. .

Irregularand delayed supply ofchemicals and instruments in science schools must be addressed and lab facilities must be improved and latest books must be made available .

in the library. . .

Timely disbursal of various scholarships/fellowships through the institution of a proper corpus fund. The CSIR fellowship for instance is often released one and a half years late, which is just notacceptable. .

.

Immediate redressal of high drop-out rates in SBT and SIT. .

.

.

Fulfillment of SC/ST/OBC/PH quota in teaching and non-teaching appointments and an end to the rising trend of large-scale guestfaculty on ad-hoc basis. .

.

.

Ensuring and Improving school-based library with latest books and reading materials. .

.

.

Burning Questions of Our Tim.e .

.

For the JNU students' movement, there has never been an artificial wall between 'campus' struggles and people's movements beyond the campus. JNUSU has always been a platform of solidarity with peoples' democratic struggles and movements across the country. JNU has always been proud this tradition of solidarity. In the coming days, the student community will be voting for a JNUSU after four long years.This .

JNUSU, and the coming student unions have to be given a mandate to carry forward this tradition. .

JNUSU necessarily needs this vision and commitmentto be the voice ofthose who have always been marginalized: .

those social forces who are defending their lands and livelihoods against corporate land grab and plunder of natural resources. .

those who are fighting against communal common sense .

prevalent in society, resisting fake encounters and framing of innocents. .

.

those who are resisting state repression, Operation Green Hunt, and other state-sponsored assaults to curb people's movements. .

.

.

those opposing the US-dictated nuclear overdrive by the Manmohan Singh govt, and proposed nuclear power plants in Koodankulam, Jaitapur, Fatehabad and elsewhere. .

.

.

those who are opposing draconian laws like AFSPA, UAPA, PSA in the North-East, Kashmir, in the mineral-rich belts, and elsewhere in the country. .

.

.

those struggling for their autonomy, identity, and statehood, as in Telangana and Gorkhaland. .

.

.

those who are resisting neo-colonialism and imperialism in its varied forms: in Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Egypt. .. .

.

.

those who are resisting the genocide and subjugation of the Tamils in Sri Lanka .

.

.

.

.. .

\).

.

What Should Guide Our Choice .

The right-wing student organizations like ABVP, NSUI, YFE are open agents of the social and political forces that are unleashing assaults on the people with communal and casteist frenzy and a whole-range of nee-liberal policies. They must be resolutely defeated. But we also need to assess the democratic commitment of the so-called '"left" groups too. The SFI and its parent party CPIM have defended and imposed SEZs, corporate land grab, police firing on peasants, Operation Green Hunt, AFSPA and UAPA; they have remained silent on the witch-hunt of minorities and fake encounters; governments headed by CPIM have pursued privatization of education and health and robbed workers' rights, peddling the idea that 'TINA' (there is no alternative) to these policies. If these were SFI's policies on a national stage.it js inevitable that its policies in JNU too were no different. .

After all, SFI remained aloof from the long struggle against the faulty ucut-off' criteria for OBC students and never bothered to restore "deprivation points" despite being in JNUSU forseveral times during 1983-93. They defended setting up of a corporate outlet like Nestle in JNU, betrayed the workers' movementand demanded a Proctorial Enquiry on protesting students fighting for workers' minimum wages. More recently boycotted a united movement against locking up of the JNUSU office, on the spurious grounds that the JNUSU office should not be used for 'partisan' purposes -in doing so, strengthening the JNU administration's attempts to 'ban' the activities of the JNU Forum. Not just this, SFI completely boycotted the protracted struggle against an administrative ban on a student group! Can we expect such forces to lead struggles for campus democracy, students' and people's rights? And in order to hide its MANY betrayals, SFI predictably launches a campaign of meaningless slander and lies against AISA. .

What exactly is at stake: in the days to come, will JNUSU .

remain a genuine platform ofstruggle against anti-student anti-.

people policies, orsolidarity with people's movements? .

By resisting attacks, by imagining new futures, and .. institutionalizingprogressive changes, AJSA has evolvedand articulateda radical andcreative vision ofpolitics in JNU. It hasplayeda vanguard role in addressing the burning questions ofour time. We need to defend this model ofJNUSU which is committed to build a strong, robust resistance to assaults on studentrights and campus democracy andstroggle fora secular, democratic, socially-inclusive and gender-sensitive JNU and society atlarge. .

Re-electAISA I Ensure JNUSU remains true to its fighting .

vision and mission II .

Central Panel .

President : Sucheta De .

Vice-President: Abhishek Kum.ar Yadav .

Gen. Secy.: Ravi Prakash Singh .

Jt. Secy. : Mohd Firoz Ahamed .

.

.

sss SAA Akbar Chawdhary Agnitra Ghosh Minakshi Buragohain .

SIS .

.

Omprasad .

Busan PK DPrasain Rakesh Kumar .

Dibya Shikha Shivanl Nag .

Shakeel Anjum Vijoyeta Deori .

.

SLL&CS .

Diksha Kumari Prince Kumar Sandeep Saurav Sarfaraz Hamid TabrezAhmad .

Yengkokpam Johnson Singh .

.

.

Vismay Basu, Piyush Raj, Central Campaign Co-ordinators .

.

.

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What Should Guido Our Chcdco The right-wing student oroonlzottorul liko AOVP, N!;;UI, YFE arf;.

Science Schools .

opon agents of tho sociJl and poUtlc.al fOf'-On that ~rc.

Pressing need ofdemocratization and transparency at all levels: Proper and timely allotment of labs to all registered unleashing assaults on tho people w1th comrnun111 nnd caateltt students, and streamlining of the system of lab allotment frenzy and a wholo-rango of noo-llborJI pollclor. 1huy must bo based on objective criteria-Large-scale presence of non-resolutely defeated But wo al~o neod to OG30r./, tho cJomocrallc .

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bonafide 'students' on projects or otherwise has severely commitment of the so·callod ~loft" oroup too Iho Sri and Ita .

curtailed the facilities of lab. space, t1me. guide's attention parentparty CPIM have defondod t.~nd tmpo''td '..If~b. GOr-pornth .

and funds meant for registered JNU students! Often such land grab, pollee finng on pc<lt.clnt~. Opcor.ltion Groun Hunt. .

engagement becomes the backdoor route for subsequent AFSPA and UAPA, they hJVO rom..Jin(ld ,lllc 1hflt .U? poUc.ln1lnmuSO"" Wltoi'A .

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with the student alone. no different .

After all, SFI rematncd aloof frorn thnlnnq ..,trucJC)I() .,c;nlnot th.

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Irregular and delayed supply of chemicals and Instruments .

in science schools must be addressed and lab facilities faulty "cut-off' critena tor OBC utudrJniJ.tnd of.lvur uot.norod to .

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mustbe improved and latest books must be made available restore "deprivation points" dw.1p1to boirvJ In JNUDU fot 6(;'\/0ml ~ ttmes during 19834 93 They defondNJ '#t"JHtn(d up of a corpoltlt .

in the library. .

outlet like Nestle InJNU, botr<.~yod thf work<WJ' movomont11nd.

nmely disbursal of various scholarships/fellowships .

demanded a Proctorial Enquiry on protc·.Unq l.tudtmt:; fightingthrough the institution of a proper corpus fund. The CSIR for workers' m1mmum wage:, Moro r1 contly tJoyr;ott.Ud ri unttedfeUowship forinstance is often released one and a half movement agatnst tockmc; up ()( tlw .JNI)~,IJ olflrJ1, on th years late, which isjust not acceptable. .

spunous grounds that the JtJUSU other,; Ghould not ht u:.cd for .

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Immediate redressal of high drop-out rates 1n SBT and SIT 'partisan' purposes -in domu ~:o. ;~tronutlH~r'\IIH~ th~n· the .ar:tlvttiu·. ot the JNU .

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teaching appointments and an end to the rising trend of Forum Not JUSt this, SFI completely boyc:.ott9d tho protr:~cted struggle aga1nst an admlni:.;trativo b.Jn on a t;tudcr'\t group!.

large-scale guest faculty on ad-hoc bas1s Can we expect such forcoE. to load »truuglot for c:.smpu~.

Ensuring and Improving school-based library w1th latest democracy, students' and pooplo'o rluhto? And in order to books and reading materials. .

h1de tts MANY betrayal&, SFI pod1t.t;1bly lound'\nll n compotgn.

Burning Q uestions of Our Time .

of meamngless slander and lit;'[, ,,~g.unr;t Alr,A .

Forthe J NU students' movement, there has never been an .

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What exactly is at st~ko in IJ1tJ d(JY'· lcJ am1o. wJII JNUSV .

artificial wall between 'campus' struggles and people's .

remain a genuine plotform ofbffiHJ()Iu ~~uwn:.l tJfltl-t,tudfir"lf aml· .

movements beyond the campus. JNUSU has always been a .

people policies, or sol,cJMily w1t h poo(JIO··) fflfJVII fiiOfll:l'l .

platform of solidarity with peoples' democratic struggles and .

By resisting attacks, by Jmaylrtlou now futt~ron, ond.

movements across the country. JNU has always been proud .

lnstitutlonallzlng progrosslvo ctiOfiCJCS, AISA lw' cvoJvodond.

this tradition of solidarity. In the com1ng days, the student .

articulated a radical ;md croatlvo vl~lon of politic-: In JNU.It .

community will be voting for a JNUSU after four long years Thts .

tJas played a vanguard ro/fJ 111 dclrlru, .trr(} f/1u tJtJmlng quQ rttlon .

JNUSU, and the coming student umons have to be g1ven a .

of our time. We neorllo drdur,cJ lfw; worJrJI rJ f JNU:JU whJCtJ /1.

mandate to carry forward this trad1t1on. .

comm1tted to build a -;trorHJ, rfJtm~t ''J',i~t:mc(J to o::;nult' on JNUSU necessarily needs this vision and commltmentto be .

student nghts and campus domoa<Jcy anti ,ttll()(J/fJ tot a::oculnr; .

the voice ofthose who have always been marginalized: .

democrallc. soclally-mclu:.,va Mid fJIJfldfJf _.owiiiVO JNU ond .

those social forces who are defendmg the1r lands and .

society at largo . .

livelihoods against corporate land grab and plunder of natural .

Re-elect AI SA I Ensuro J NUSU romalnn truo to ltD flghtlng resources. .

vislon and mission ll .

those who are fighting against communal common sense .

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prevalent in society, resisting fake encounters and fram1ng of .

~ontra! Pan?! .

innocents. Prot;Jdont Sucheta De .

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those who are resisting state repression, Operation Green .

Vice-ProSJdont Abhb hck. Kurn<tr YadaV .

Hunt, and other state-sponsored assaults to curb people's .

Gen. S&cy RA-vl Pn wh Sto&h .

movements. Jt Socy Mohd Firoz Ahamc:d .

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those opposing the US~ictated nuclear overdnve by the .

SSS SAA \ ? l.L&C$ .

Manmohan Singh govt. and proposed nuclear power plants .

Chawdhary \Agnltfa Ghoth 1Olkaha KurnaJ1.

in Koodankulam, Jaltapur, Fatehabad and elsewhere Minakshi Buragohain . SIS PrlncoKumat.

those who are opposing draconian laws like AFSPA. UAPA, .

'IOmprasad \ 8 P "' 0 P . . Sandcwp Saurav.

PSAin the North-East, Kashmir, 1n the mineral ·nch belts, and , usan r rana1n RakeshKumar OitrJa Shi~ha Sarfarc4Hamid.

elsewhere in the country. .

Shivanl Nag Sh . 1,,,..· labretAhmad.

those struggling for their autonomy, identity, and statehood, 1 ar.ce "'')um .

as in Telangana and Gorkhaland Vijo-Jeta oeori .

those who are resisting neo-colomalism and imperialism Yenglt:o~.pam Johr~v" :''~'1.:: .~ .

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in Its varied forms: in Palestine. Iraq. Afghanistan, Egypt.-. ~============ -,.......... -.

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·:n-ordmators .

those who are resisting the genocide and subjugation of .

the Tamils in Sri Lanka Vismay Basu, Piyush Ral .

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