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1\1 over the Join PROTEST MARCH , I sut there8Aug (Tonight) 9.30pm from Ganga Dhaba Observe Unlversltv Strike 11 grounds-.
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the violation ofwor1<ers' minimum wages on the campus. The JNUSU Coundl as well as University General Body Meeting attended by more than 600 students Since the suspension of9students in February,students of JNU have conducted asustained struggle against the punishment of students struggling against of his\ife. have1ound expressed regretfor the inddent of gherao ofthe Registrar, but held that no Individual students must be punished for aprotest that was coDectlvefy led by the .
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JNUSU,and for which regret too had been collectivelyexpressed by the student community. Following the rustication and out-of-bounds orders against 8 .
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students,and fines on 3JNUSU office bearers inthemiddle ofthe summervacations,the struggle Intensified.JNU's teaching community as wen as democratic intelligentsia outside JNUrallied round Insupport of the students' struggle toensure minimum wage payments for workers, and demanded withdrawal of .
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punishments fromthe students.Finally13days of indefinitehungerstrike resulted inan agreement on 12 July In which the UniversityAdministration agreed to .
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reconsider t.~epunishments on thebasisofletters ofappeal by thestudents,In order to allow students to take registration thissemester.In continuation with this.
students, and the fine withdrawn from the GeneralSecretary.However,fines of Rs. 1000 each have been imposed on 6students, while fines of Rs. 2000 each .
agreement, the 8rusticated students and theJNUSUGeneral Secretary submitted letters of appeal;following which rustications have been revoked for an 8 .
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have been imposed on two of the students:and the fines imposed on JNUSU President and Joint Secretary continue..
The withdrawal of rustications from the students Is a major moral victory for the student movement In JNU. It vindicated the moral force .
of the student movement's logic: that a collective protest (for which JNUSU took collective responsibility and which had been collectively .
t regretted by the JNUSU Council and UGBM) must not be made a pretext for vlctlmlzaUon and witch-hunting of Individual students L~,.,.rc:.ts in death? .
() However, the replacement of rustications with fines Is unfortunate and Illogical, as ls the differential treatment for different students.rc sti\\ go scot-.
Any punitive measure, Including fines, goes against the principle of "no Individual punishment for collective protest, especially In the Rght .
of collectfvely expressed regret" In keeping with this democratic norm, JNU Administration should withdraw all fines from the students.A lcu\ansm .havefor .
. The JNUSU President and Joint Secretary also should not give credibility to the JNU Administration's plank of differential punish·.
of menta. By refusing to submitletters of appeal they are trying to claim'special' ordifferential,favoured status forJNUSU office bearers, and are refusing to abide .
by the Agreement of 12 July according to which all 11 students were called upon to submit letters of appeal. This creates afalse sense of hierarchy of .
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community by meting out unequal treatment.
me JNUSU office bearers as opposed to common students, and gives fodder to the JNU Administration's attempt to divide the student \mpr\sonmentby To defeat the JNU AdmlnlstraUon'a biased approach, students must unitedly demand equal anc! just treatment for an 11 students. We do JN notand must notsupport the JNU Administration's logic that some students are mora 'guilty' than others and therefore deserving ofmore severe punishment .
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Therefore JNU Administration must withdraw all punishments against all 11 students, and all students must abide by the tenns ofthe July12agreement Of Demandssdi-Awadhesh, President, AISA, JNU AISA calls upon students to joinJNUSU's Protest procession tonight In large numbers; and ensure the success oftomorrovla University Strike. A\SA. JNU.
sd/-Shephallka Shekhar,Jt Secy., AISA, JNU.
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