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THOSE WHO DO NOT LEARN FROM HISTORY, ARE CONDEMNED .

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as to the seriousness mobilization for the demonstration.

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s1uapm of purpose as well. Without question, a serious stock taking is required. Dated: 3'dApril, .

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pu.v sa bastion of upper caste chauvinism-outside the academic council meeting on the 31" Ma .

Based on the experience gained from waging a valiant fight for defending 'reservations' in the very heart of the ·\~d'i leadership concerns are bound to rise over the fate of our struggle for upholding "social justice."More than that, this raises questloha .

appeals for a broad based, consistent.

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ol uo~ of the different student organizations .

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anti-reservation agitations, PDSU was the first to call for efforts to build broadest possible unity in this struggle. But all our .

struggle on this issue, had been convenienchauvinistis as divisive as that of 'reservations', both at the time of the 1991 and the 2006.

on the campus -for reasons best known to them. .

Diligence and consistency in the planning is a pre-condition.

of reservationsqs~~ forces m the state structure. which has historically tly ignored by the self righteoussnql Instead, ad-hocim for the success of any struggle-.

faced intense opposition.

reuc take anyone of them to their logical conclusion. has been the sine-qua-none especially if the issue.

"implement reservations'' of the well entrenched caste~q whatsoeverso far. It seems as though the idea is more to mark the presence of the struggle for implementation.

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, for they only give the administrationcau To begm with the anddemandthen to put"redefineforth wasthe cut-offas generalcriterion",as ··uphold social justice" in the annuawhich l got itinerary metamof oissrphosed ues, than to .

uc all are seeing this happen. Everyone a handle for playing around with words to defeat 'reservations' -and we that they have demanded.

to relinqu_ishUl it as such from the administration. when the need was to ask for abolition of any cut-offs.

Perhaps, will claim that we are opposed to cut-offs, but there is not a single document to show .

organizing.

Sll "progressive" charge. And the charge was relinquishedJH credentialsaq Next, move was to organtze a protest march on this issue on behalf of the student's union, just a day before it was .

a protest march in support of reservations.

struggle seemed as distant as ever. without there being any alternate plan to take the issue forward. JO to gaining from strength to strength. Post dinner meetings was only a propitious.

st ~ of our leaders; but missing in thts was the concern for building a movement.

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Sl 'f?~ve other orqan1zations organtzations parting gift to attest to the Then came FDIR w!lh 1~s own unilateral.

JNUSU constitution. m ''~ fnrn"'-:.ti""'. that would be seenthen a joint struggle commtttee agenda on reservations. apart, the evolution.

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leadership · -··· ..........u .... o ucll of a unifiedBut it seems that the move was designed 1 1V< i~Esto"·o'-una abroad platform f~r some among 1ts own ranks on the issue of reservations.

had revolted against a pro-reservation could very well have served the purpose, as was done tn defe~s~. ?f the .

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-perhaps AISA has not yet forgottenit. We were w1tness to the spectacle for them to remember th.at a sizable sec~i~n of its politics that they have gotten used to, it would be instructive by AISA more to take care of the tender sens1b1lttJes of .

stance in 2006 Rather than the maneuvenngsThe admlllistration.

of its maneuvertngs of bourgeoiSie style only by the half-for such politics by its very nature can only serve the purpose of maintaining.

in the meanwhile that in doing so they have been smartby the disjotnted the status rather than break then tt was called off-having ach1eved what. is a riddle that remains unresolved .

of the hunger strike by FDIR before the first AC meeting on the 18'h of March and .

referred the issue of reservations and nature of opposition, as yet.doctors of AIIMS rewarded has not just been sitting pretty, but having been fully assured of the success.

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who played truant at the t1me of the last anti-reservation agitation. it has pressed ahead. The reconvenein faculty for legal opinion to the Attorney General Gopal Subramaniam-.

students are even bleaker. d AC has now semester exams coming, the admintstration He was the most instrumental .

for spewing caste venom by having their salaries for the strike period released. Would it be .

Seasoned the scoundrel .

if very soon he would also be deciding the cut-off for entrance to JNU for the reserved categories? With end .

organizations in having the striking.

in anticipation, an all party meeting was called on the evening of 31 51 March to chalk out further course of action and indeed some 1mportant knows only too well that the prospectsdecisions of any sustatned.

have been taken. PDSU was kept out of this meeting -perhaps the lesser minions like us are not deserving ltke AISA could not but have been aware of the consequences movement by the.

of the company.

beating the caste chauvinist of the hallowed 'revolutionaries' of their actions. Perhapstirelessly to make all endeavors .

aware of it, for AISA had then invited us then to address their meetings .

forces in the past in their very den ~ and these hallowed revolutionar.

any failure to do so will only condemn us to relive it. JNU; whatever may have been our successes whatever be the odds and whatever the follies are. The need is to learn from history of attempts to foil affirmative action; in towards building a powerful movement for implementation of reservations a success, here in JNU. Nevertheless, PDSU shall still aspire .

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Dr Vikas Bajpai, Ph: 9810275314, drvikasbajpai@gmail.com.

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