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In the UGBM speakout against the authoritarianism oftheVCand the hypoctisy ofthe SFI-AISF leadership.
The students have spoken -defending their rights and those ofthe workers. A 500 plus vibrant march had.
stormed the streets ofJNU, asserting their right to protest, demanding revocation of the arbitrary, targeted suspension.
of ten students and four karamcharis; as well as insisting that worker's rights in the campus has to be ensured. A day.
long successful strike had been observed on the same demands..
The administration's response was to ignore ~II these with extreme arrogance. Far from revoking the.
suspension it is going ahead with its one sided high handedness, by calling the targeted students for proctorai enquiry..
the administration Is still denying its responsibility as principal employer. Well, one cannot expect anything but such .
As expected, nothing has been done towards ensuring minimum wage or taking back retrenched workers. Shamelessly,extreme show of brute power from an administration which is on one hand neck-dip In corruption and on the other Issworn in to crush anykind of student movement. What Is more shocking and shameless is the blatant silence.
and covert betrayal ofthe SFI-AISF leadership. SFI-AISF leadership has quickly distanced itself from the.
movement, and Is in effect siding with the administration by calling it 'regrettable', thereby vindicating the despotism of.
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This movement has been going on for three months, exposing one by one the various strands of corruption and.
tyranny either engaged in or endorsed by the administration. It finally culminated into the assertive protest.
demonstration before the Registrar.
's car in the Ad-Block. The SFI-AISF which had hardly been involved in the previous.
three months (barring a few token appearances), was definitely a part of the protest demonstration that took place on.
the 19th of February. But following that, as usual, they t'OOk an about turn to return to the lap of the administration..
Be1;rayal ofthe student community. Yet again!.
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G the Issue of injustice and oppression of labourers within this campus. !!J N While being an activ~ part of the demonstration In the ad-block, they engaged themselves in rampant rumour HImongering and slander campaigning about the same (ranging from the ridiculous allegation that students were li~ .
In They first 'disassociated' and disowned this historic movement which was the first in decades to forcefully raise >o .
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singing on the roof of the car to the dangerous lie that the Registrar was denied of taking his Namaaz!).
They passed an extremely problematic resolution in the JNUSU E.C meeting, echoing the line taken by the ,,.
administration, in which the protest demonstration was called a 'Gherao', while it was not. We had consistentlymaintained and the karamcharis present in the scene had supported the fact In the public meeting that the .
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Registrar was notforcefully kept confined in the car but was repeatedly being asked to come out and talk tothe students which he himself had refused to do. .
The SFI-AISF leadership and some cadres were the silent onlooker to the massive student-karamcharimarch.
that shook the streets of JNU. While a number of their supporters feeling the gravity of the situation were a.
part of the march they brazenly kept themselves out of it..
Finally, while they are denying it in public (are they left with any option given the present mood of thecampus?), media sources had confirmed that the President and Joint Secretary of JNUSU had gone and.
apologized to the VC for the movement! While nothing can be more sectarian and disloyal to a movement.
fought by the student community as a collective, frankly we are not surprised. What else can one expect fromthe apologists of the corrupted anti-democratic forces of privatization and neo-llberal economy?The students had already raised the slogan where the VC had been denied of his Jaglrdarirights over JNU. Let us in.
unison raise one more slogan: ProtestBechne Wa/o Ko, VC~edalalo ko, Ek Dhakka AurDd..
Let the student community decide. At the initiative of DSU and some students who had been at the forefront of themovement for workers' rights, call of an UGBM was taken up by the student community. 884 students signed thedemand for UGBM in a matter of two hours. This UGBM has been called because the SFI-AISF leadership in JNUSU nolonger represe~ts the position of the students -they have started speaking the language of the administration. In the.
UGBM let us foil their attempts to institutionalize protest. Let us declare that the means and methods of struggle are.
determined by the struggling people, not the authorities they are fighting against. Let us show the administration that they.
cannot hold the campus community to ransom with threats and suspensions. Let us make this UGBM a bold step.
towards building a truly democratic campus where students and workers are equal partners. In the UGBM let.
students ofJNU declare that we do not regret having fought for our rights and.
that ofthe workers in the campus. Let us demand: 1) Immediate and.
unconditional withdrawal ofall suspension orders, and scrapping of the proctoral.
enquiry, (2) the immediate taking back ofall retrenched electricity workers on.
and (3) Setting up ofa mechanism to ensure the legal minimum wages and.
proper working conditions in JNU. .
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Today, on the fifth day ofthe indefinite hunger strike, the JNU administration finally agreed to revoke the ban on the JNU dissent. We also thank progressive sections ofthe JNU faculty who have supported us in this struggle rightfrom the beginning..
Forum.AISAcongratu!ates the studentcommunity for spiritedly participating in the ongoing struggle to defend our democratic spaces of debate and One needstotime and again underline the importance ofthis struggle:Recently, in Delhi University, the administration abjectly know-.
towed to fascist diktats issued by the Sangh1brigade and removed A.K. Ramanujam's celebrated essay' 3(]()Ramayanas from the undergraduate .
syllabus.In Banaras Hindu University and Jamia Milfia lslamia, students and student groups cannot even organise publjcmeetings and demonsbarons. .
Inthese campuses,the Proctor'sOffice literally polices students all the time to watch out' for any signs ofstudent activity. And now in JNU -which is .
CJ raknown for jts long tradition ofdebate and dissent of attemative interpretations and ideas challenging accepted notions-the JNU admjnisb ation tried to tell us that theywill decide wbat can be written and talked about. which student can use the JNUSU office and wbo can't1 The JNU student .
community knows whatexacHy is atstake ifthis dangerous culture ofbanning and policing continues.We mustnow ask ourselves: CanVtJe anowthis .
bizarre and dangerous trend to become a practice in ourcampus? .
The Proctor's Office and the JNU administration have been claiming that the JNU Forum needs to be 'restricted' because they have allegedly violated the "lawofthe land". We would liketo ask the JNU administration:where was their great concern for the tawofthe land" when OBC .
resecvations were being blatantly scuttled. when more than 400 OBC sea1s were literaUy stolen by the JNU administration? .
community has seen how hts office turns a blind eye wheneverABVP goons indulge in violence, wheneverABVP or YFE issue viciously communal.
The political inclinations ofJNU's ChiefProctor are very clear. He has been around for almostfive years now, and the entire student .
and casteist pamphlets,using the most derogatory language and abusive language possible. In themostrecentinstance, when ABVP brought .
out apamphlet spewing venom against the Muslim community and throwing open communal abuses,the Proctor's Office acted ONLY when the .
student community caned aprotest demonstration demanding action. Under pressure from the progressive and democratic sections ofthe JNU community, the Proctor's office suspended the signatories ofthis abusive pamphlet. However, soon afterwards they quietly revoked the suspension .
and letthem offwith token fines! This softtreatment and indulgenceto right-wing forces has become the hall-mark ofthe Proctor's office .
foryears now. .
Let us notforgetthat this culture ofbanning isatypical symptom ofafascist state. which is scared ofideas that challenge it. Let us not forgetthat .
throughoutthe wortj, it is the communist movement thathas borne the bruntof banning-in severalcountries, for instance in Chile, Germany, France .
ande.lsewhere, the Communist Party was often called 'anti-national'and banned.ln India too, the Communist Party was banned underthe British banning is also the history ofmass movements against this fascist culture. It is our duty, as students, todefend JNU's democratic·~~Ionia! rule, and after the historic Naxalbariuprising, the radical Marxist-Leninist stream was forced to go underground. However, thehistoryof ethos and to stand up against the JNU administration's attempts to police us. Therefore. we believe that desptte all our political and .
ideological differences with the JNU Forum, all progressive forces strengthened the movement against the ban. .
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ABVP,NSUIand YFE's support ofthe ban on the JNU Forum comes as no surprise. However, SFI's complete silence on the hunger .
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strikeisnoteworthy.Even when the JNUSU office was dosed by the JNUadministration, they refused to be part ofthejoint protestdemonstration. .
Infact atatime when the ONLYplace available to the JNU Forum for conducting its public meetings was the JNUSU office, SFI strengthenedthe JNU't administration byclaiming thatthe JNUSU office should notbe used for 'partisan' purposes! Even at that time, we had pointed outthat practically every .
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meetingthat takes place in the JNUSU office is 'partisan'-whether it is ameeting against the imposition of Lyngdoh recommendations in JNU,or .
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, agaiostABVP's lumpenism,or to defend reservations and socialjustice.Therefore, this simplistic"logic" against"partisan" activitiesjustdoes not make .
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anysense,and in fact strengthens the JNU administration's intentions to oolice and ban organisations as per their prejudices and ideological Jj .
u predilections. And now, when an indefinite hunger strike was going on, SFI shamefully choseto openly boycott themovement! .
and to reiterateourcommitment to defend all democratic spaces ofdebate and dissent, we appealto thestudentcommunitytoparticipateinAJSA's Yesterday was the 94t~anniversary ofthe historic Bolshevik Revolution ofRussia in 1917. To To reassert the leagacy of Bolshevik revoltution, .
ofrepressionandresistance".Nabarun,son of well-known author and activist Mahashweta Devi, has written extensively on these issues, and public meeting tonight from 9.30pm onwards, where revolutionary poet and writer Nabarun Bhattacharya willtalk "Literature in times .
\ exemplifiesthe glorious tradition of literary opposition to state repression.This publicmeeting was originally supposed to beheld at theAd .
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Sandeep Saurav, Gen.Scc)., A ISA.JNU Piyush, Vice-President, AISA, JNU .
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