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I requested Union Minister Chaudhary Birender Singh Ji to request Union Government to accede to the request of Punjab Government to name newly operational Mohali International Airport in the name of Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh, as a lasting gratitude to the supreme sacrifice of Martyr.
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freedoms. For Instance, ABVP on campuses bans Jeans for women and attacks those who celeqrate Valentine's Day will dispel all in the name of Indian culture·. Using the 'fight against terrorism' as an excuse, the BJP brands all those who disagree darkness... with them as &terrorists, and introduced POTA to crack down on them. The ideology of ABVP-RSS-BJP is, in fact. th worst enemy of secularism, freedom of expression and democracy. .
--Nazim IReject the Culture of Double speak and Hypocrisy Hikmat In the present phase, many have high expectations that left student groups will orient the student movement to defeat privatization and communalism. When left groups indulge in doublespeak, they deliver a serious blow to the movement. Aprominent instance of this is the SFI model. Their slogans speak of upholding democracy and defeating privatization. But does it practice these slogans? In West Bengal, where its parent party CPI(M) rules, the SFI actively justifies fee hikes and " reserved seats for NRI's" 1The SFI eventakes a leaf out of ABVP's book, forcibly imposing adress code of sarees on girls wearing ~kirts in Rabindra Bharati University, in the name of -'our culture'! In JNU, we get a close-up look of the Impact of SFI on the movement. In the SFI's tenure, the JNUSU has ceased to be a vibrant platform of struggles. Every y ear, the SFI orchestrates "movements" just before elections, to throw dust in... the eyes of newcomers. In the name of "movements" it routinely brokers deals with the VC, and support the VC against any real-life protest by students. Recently, students of Mahl-Mandavl, who raised their voice against unhygienic food in the privatized hostel mess, were punished by the JNU Administration. Instead of defending them, t~ SFI-Ied JNUSU told them to 'apologise', and helped the VC to Impose fine that the SFI said were 'reasonable' Sadly, JNU Students' Union with its legacy of serious struggles, has been reduced by the SFI to a body that finds 'reasonable' to punish students for legitimate protest. This is in stark contrast with AISA's JNUSU tenure, which significantly expanded students rights, and fed students' mass struggle that won progressive policy changes and defeated privatization. .
AISA believes that JNU still has a long way to go, towards becoming a center for social change and equality JNU' s Admission policy needs to be made even more socially accommodative of people from deprive backgrounds. Equally important is the question -does JNU do enough to make sure that.students from deprived backgrounds who get admission are able to continue? The fact is that though the UGC releases funds for Remedial Teaching, hardly any remedial classes exist for those who are from-non-English speaking backgrounds, many BA or MA students from dalit background, find themselves pushed out of research .
a,wbi&ker-.thin margin. Also, many from poor families find JNU increasingly costly. AISA believes JNU ne~ds to bt sensitive ensuring remedial teaching, Indexing merit-cum means scholarships to the mess bill 1clal aaelstanc.e for deprived students. .
ae well as outside the classrooms, we believe we need to revive a culture of debate and a spirit of enquiry. Rather than being passiv~ consumers of modules of education, students must actively participate in every arena of public debate-revitalizing JNU's existing democrati' spaces, of SFCs GBMs and UGBMs as well as creating new ones. And above all, we need to bring fresh life to what JNU is known for producing socially committed and sensitive people who, whether in the movements, academics, media or any other field, will carry forward tht struggle for change and equality. .
Make Your Choice .
In JNU, each of us has a unique opportunity to reject prejudices of caste, religion, and forge a new Identity and a new togetherness. Thousand' of students all over India, experience that togetherness, by being a part of the AISA movement. .
The choice is yours, It is up to you to reject the communalists who ask you to take pride in human massacres in the name of religion. It is up to . you to refuse to be content with empty slogans and the politics of double standards. Choose to be a part of the struggle which is defining, . a new path of resistance against communal fascism, privatization and politics of compromise. .
When our forests and rivers, mines and land and our precious freedom are being sold out to multinationals standup to assert BhagatSingh's vision ofan India free from imperialist exploitation, inequality andinjustice .
When our environment and the lives of triba/s are being destroyed by huge dams andnuclear emissions, spealk .
out for the struggling tribals ofNarmada, Koel Karo and Jadugoda I When the people ofPalestine andIraq heroicallyresist nakedcolonialand racist aggression byIsraeland US strengthen the voices in favour of their rights and freedom I .
When students ofPhillipines fight on the streets to oust US troops from the soil of their motherland, ·J:is inspired by their spirit and vow to resist imperialist meddling in our own soil! .
..".-When the forces of struggle are unleashed, the future generatins will ask us ·wher.e were you ?" .... It's our duty to be a part of the struggle to make a truly democratic self-reliant, egalitarian India". .
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Heroes forever: B-Town on Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev, Rajguru
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BhagatSingh toCom. Chandrashekhar: the Legacy LivesOn.... .
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Paraniov Guha Thakurta KG Basin To Coal-Gate: Neoliberalism .
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-2G to the recent coal scam. th~. GAG has pointe_d· but the same ·underlying-problef"!)--_loss te the _public exchequer.
From_ dl:fe to a poli~y ?f. banding-oyer _precio"us-natu!al re-~ource.s on·9 "fir.st-come-first-serve:· basi_s rather than-.being auctioned. scam. the GAG-haB pojnted out abset]ce of.
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·· ·· · ·· · · · · · · · · -transparent auctions as· the reason for·massive losses. .
The issue however is much deeper. The larger question is. can we arrest all "losses to the state exchequer" merely by auctioning off resources to the highest pidder? Can it be in the national interest to let_private players ·use up and per their whims and fancies merely for private profits,.
indiscriminately exhaust these precious resources as robbing future generations of Indian people of these resources? Even if a resource _like coal were to be auctioned off a company, the state receives .a one-time ppyment or .some miniscule royalty,. whk-h -is a .pitt8nce .of the total profit Ylat.
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Natural Resources in the Nee-Liberal Era: .Toqls for Corporate Profiteering. . . .
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In the past fe·w years, we have seen the oil and natural gas-rich Krishna Godavari (KG) bastn been handed over to Reliance .
for private profiteering. A previous CAG report has exposed how a dubious "production sharing contract" was signed between the government aod private petroleum-operatq_rs. data 8n Reliance's capital expenditure was deliberate~y fudged and inflated. pnvate operators were allowed to sell oil at much higher rates than ONGC. Niira Radia tapes have also told us .
how the UPA and the "opposttion" NDA happily colluded on the floor of the Parliament to award millions of rupees to reverting to· the "correct" .
.. Reliance as "retrospective" tax exemptions' herefore, the issue is NOT m erely one of policy of auctioning natural resources. · which the state should manage, k~eping in mind the.
Post-independence, coal was recognised _as a '4national as~t" .
interests of the "community''. Coal was thus nationalised -a process that began in 1971 and was completed in 1973. Soon .
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afterwards however. the real-project of "nationalisation" began to unravel. As early as 1976. aclause was introduced in the .
Coal Nationalisation Act to allow coal blocks to be allotted to private iron and steel (and in some limited cases, to private .
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The ongoing process of privatising coal mining proceeded with great speed in the 1990s-the Coal Nationalisation .
Act was amended in 1993 to allow allotment of capti\7e coal mining blocks t~ private power companies. Coal prices were .
deregulated by the Ministry of Coal. and in 1996, the MoC issued yet another notification allowing cement companies to .
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And as the CAG report now exposes, between 2004-2009, coal mining blocks were handed out on a platter at a can make the most profits. When the issue of.
pittance to private companies who mine coal as and when they allotting coal blocks at ridiculously low rates became too difficult for the UPA to handle. they fi~ly Introduced the new MMDR Act 2011 . which recommends auctiontng of coal blocks. .
Besides this hyper-active neo-ltberal policy sh1ft favouring corporate proftts, we are also wttnessing how the state machinery sits back and watches rampant violations and open loot of mineral resources by the politician-mafia nexus -from Bellary .
in Karnataka, to the coal belt tn Chhattisgarh and MP, to mineral-rich areas in Odisha and Jharkhand. .
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Also, this time around the PMO cannot even pretend (as it tried to do in the 2G ong stretches during 2004-2009 when.
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these dubious allocation of coal blocks took place and therefore complicit in this Joss of resources. Several of the .
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companies named 1n the draft CAG report that is causing such a furore are based 1n BJP-ruled ChhatttSgarh. It is clear that .
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after all the public sound and fury, the so-called "opposition" BJP will also willingly participate in a carefully orchestrated .
cover-up in order to hide the huge share they enjoy in this regime of corporate loot So whether the so-called "oppositionu .
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In designing a m1neral policy for the entire country. it is important to ask: will state policy be decided by corporate profits. .
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or by the larger interests ~f the people? In the case~ an important resource ltke coal, why should publiC sector companies have to engage in cut-th~oat compe~tion with the likes of the Jindals and the Tatas? Why should private companies be allotted captive coal mini~ blocks? Why can't they simply purchase all the coal they require from Coal india. instead of .
acqUinng coal blocks and then using them as speculative capital to .profit from? .
AISA is organ1s1ng a pu lie meeting tonight (March 271h) from 9.30 pm onwards at Kaveri mess, wh1ch will be addressed by Paranjoy G ha Thakurta (noted journalist who has extensively reported on the regime of corporate loot of researcher and activist). We appeal to the student community to participate in.
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this public meeting in large numbers to discuss these important issues related to the use and misuse of natural resources. .
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Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar, Punjab. February 26, 2018: The Jallianwala Bagh massacre, also known as the Amritsar massacre, took place on 13 April 1919 when troops of the British Indian Army under the command of Colonel Reginald Dyer fired rifles into a crowd of Baishakhi pilgrims, J
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Bhagat Singh-Pash-Chandrashekhar: The 'Spring Thunder' of Their Call Continues to Resound .
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For a Free and Egalitarian Socialist India and WorldI March 23, 1931 -the day that Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev were hanged to death. Their martyrdom sparked off a new debate in the whole freedom struggle, inspiring thousands of young people to embrace the path of .
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revolution, and posing a question mark to the Congress-led model of freedom movement. Commenting on this model, .
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Bhagat Singh wrote in 1931, "This struggle is based on middle-class shopkeepers and a few capitalists...but the real .
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revolutionary armies are in the fields and the factories-peasants and workers. But our 'bourgeois' leaders do not, .
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cannot. dare to join hands with them..." Recognising the dangers of British-sponsored communalism, and of a freedom struggle waged in a religious idiom, Bhagat Singh called for a complete separation of religion from politics, and declared way! ~~ ays, "9 .
that only a secular society could be the basis for a modern and free India. .
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the British; inspired by the Russian Revolution, he spoke of liberating humanity from exploitation, of fighting for a socialist .
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Presidential Debate if he was contesting for JNUSU out of 'ambition', Comrade Chandrashekhar replied, "Yes, I'm ambitious; .
yle dise1 my ambition is for a life like Bhagat Singh and a death like Che Guevara!" Truly, Chandu kept his promise. In the same spring month of March in which Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru had smilingly faced imperialist gallows, 1: more ! drugs.
Chandrashekhar boldly faced assassins' bullets while addressing a street-corner meeting in his hometown Siwan. ill cons;.
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degrees and facing brutal murder and torture. Their crime? With the 'spring thunder' of Naxalbari, they were bringing alive ~e, tt Bhagat Singh's dream of joining hands with the ·revolutionary armies in the fields and the factories'. ~ainn~ .
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t Samant and Niyogi, or the beloved CPI(ML) MLA Mahendra Singh, who was killed by the BJP Government in Jharkhand. fl As imperialists intensify their plunder of third world resources, their economic and military offensive on the third world from ent hol 16 Iraq to India, young people in our country and the world keep Bhagat Singh's and Che's legacy ofanti-imperialiststruggles e a ' fc . .
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1n The revolutionary poet of Punjab, Pash, warned us-"Most dangerous of all is the death of our dreams. On 23 by.
dr March 1988, Pash too was killed by religtous fundamentalists. But bullets and gallows have never had the power to kill .vhich .
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Sd sent a letter to their Russian comrades on Lenin's birth anniversary, hailing Lenin for the glorious October revolution, and pledging that they would fight for such a Revolution in India and all over the world. Bhagat Singh, the greatest symbol of patriotic sacrifice, who gave up his ltfe fighting for his own country, was justascommitted to revolutionary internationalism as well. Today, to commemorate Bhagat Singh's martyrdom day, AISA will screen Ten Days That Shook ecn.,An ti The World-a film based on John Reed's documentary novel, which tells the story of the great October Revolution, and .
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young medical student. Those diaries call out: "Let the world change you; and you can change the world". Che's diaries record how meeting the poor and indigenous people of Chile, Peru, Venezuela "changed me more than I thought. I .
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am not me anymore." Che's journey, that began with his 'Motorcycle Diaries'. took him eventually to revolution in Cuba and martyrdom in Bolivia, which made him the hero for anti-imperialist people all over Latin America and the world. .
Che Guevara, born in Argentina, fought against a CIA coup in Guatemala, led the Revolution that toppled the US-sponsored Batista regime in Cuba, and was killed by the CIA while he was leading a guerilla movement in the jungles of JNU Bolivia. At a time when imperialist armies are assaulting third world nations and plundering third world economies, Bhagat Singh's legacy of anti-imperialist nationalism and Che's anti-imperialist internationalism becomes all .
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All India Students' .Association (AISA) 25.03.04 .
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'WAR ON TERROR'' AND THE TERROR OF POTA : Black Laws, Human Rights and Indian State .
! SpeakersNandIta Ha~ar, NotedLawyer and HumanRights Activist .. Kumudlnl Patl, General Secretary,AIPWA Siddhartha Varadrajan, NotedJournalist,Times Of India .
25.03.04(Tonight) 9:30 PM Sutlej Mess ~· State Terror: Cracking Down On Movements And Minorities .
In /mphal, a young woman, Sharmila /rom, sits on a fast unto death against the draconian Armed Forces Special Powers Act. She is not a victim oftlris Act; the killing of13 young Manipuri boys by Armed Forces inspired her to begin herfast four years ago.. Since then she has been under a"est, undergoingforce-feeding. When asked why she continues to protest against this Act, which is ostensibly intended to help our Armyfzght 'anti-nationals', she replies, u Because !love peacen. .
Over the years, the Indian state has anned itself with an arsenal of draconian laws, which are designed to crush human rights .
and democratic voice!' of dissent. In the wake of the US ' so-called War On Terror, the Yajpayee government added a new .
ch:lplcr to the history ofblnck laws. Inspired by the us· own 'security' laws like the Patriot Act, the Ynjpaycc Govt. introduced .
POTA. Almost exactly two years ago, on 26 March 2002, the Govt. made use of the Parliament bombing as an excuse .
to buLldoze POTA through a Joint Session of Parliament. .
In tin.-l\.·o .fCdi'S vfPOTA~ what do we see? Do we find a trail of a 'war on terrorism' as promised by Vajpayee, Advani & Co.? .
Or do we find a brutal trail of terror against movements and minorities? .
Let us t::~ke ::J look at "hom POTA hns turgcttcd. .
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For DU lecturer SAR Geelani, a nightmare was born almost simultaneously with the birth ofPOTA This man has now .
been proved innocent of an~ connection with the Parliament bombing. But under POTA, his political views, his identity as ' to justify arrest.
a Kushmiri Muslim. the fuel U1at he was a~ acquaintance of two other accused, was enough of a 'crime.
him as a ·terrorist'. He sufTercd tmprisonmcnt, vili(jcation, torture, and even death sentence from the special POTA Court. .
lt was only widespread pressure from civil society which could save him from being hanged as a 'terrorist'. .
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In Godhra, young men, mostly doing smaJl jobs like electricians, TV repair men etc... have been booked under POTA wholesale-no prizes for guessing that all are Muslims. These men have been subjected to third degree torture to force them to confess that they were 'terrorists' who had set fire to the Sabarmati Express. Their families also continue to be threatened with death ifthey spe-ak out. .
But the bulk ofPOTA arrests have not been in J&K, although 'terrorism' in Kashmir was one ofthe foremost bases for the Govt. 's intaoouction ofPOTA Instead, it is Jharkhand which tops the list, with hundreds oftribals, many ofwhom are women and children. 1n Jharkhand as well as Eastern UP and other tribal belts, people who make any claim to land, rivers, .
'Naxalites', and POTA is the latest handy weapon against their.
forests, resomces or proper wages, are all branded as assertion. At a People's Tribmtal held recently in Delhi, several small children and young women testified as to how they have been booked under POTA on charges of 'supporting' Naxalite movements. '.
Meanwhile, the old black laws, now scrapped, still continue to be used. For instance, in Bihar. a TADA case was made out in I988 against a popular CPI(ML) leader ofJehanobnd, Shnh Chand and sovcrnl others, including some young children. Despite TADA having been scrapped, the Bihar Govt. took no steps to free these victims ofTADA. Now, Shah Chand and others have been awarded a life sentence under TADA While in the same Jehanabad, the Ranveer Sena goons who kill activists like Manju in cold blood, and who massacre rural poor and dalits, are never called terrorists! Infact, Ranveer Sena Chief Brahmeshwar Singh will be contesting for a seat in the Lok Sabha this time! POTA and other black laws are never used against terrorists of the saffron hue, not even when they publicly knock down mosques, burn thousands alive or spew s~hes to spread terror and hatred. Clearly, according to the Indian State, in order to be a 'tenorist' one must either be a Muslim, or ~ poor tribal or landless labourer, or a Commwlist Bhagat Singh threw his bomb in the Assembly, to 'make the deaf hear, the protests against draconian colonial laws meant to crush workers, right to protest. Bhagat Singh was branded as a terrorist bythe British. Today,BhagatSingh's successors, theactivists ofpeople's movements, are branded as terrorists and jailed and killed, while the saffron descendants of the Britjsh b~tu't/ .f:tll\di.t.lvA. .
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Revolutionary poet from Andhra Pradesh, Sri Sri, expresses it best -.
Yesterday, the white man calledyou 1Bhagat Singh' ~~fcRI ~ ~m m 'fN'fl ~~Jft q;jom Cfft Today the black man ct~llsyou 1Naxaliie' 110 ~~~ct ~~ 5~'i"i ~ .
Tomo17'0W, the whole world will callyou 'Morning Star'I' rl-rtt 4 R ~ qft · ~t · ~ Resist State Teneri Scrap POTA Totally! ~~~~ Q 316f ffi 3ITf!f '-""'9' ~{-Of .
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