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Mandate of the.vote.bank: It is lm.portant to point out that had the Y4E votes also not fallen in to the SFI-AISF and AISA k1tty-m ~ not so com~ldental ~ay but as a definite pattern-whether the claim that this is a.
m~ndate for pro-reservation, was poss1ble. Wh1le the science schools overwhelmingly voted for the Y4E .
· 1sCienc~s school was also .not disappointing for them. The pattern·that emerged also showed the fault li~e~0~~~new alignments that are 1n store for higher education in JNU. (99 combined votes to SFI-Y4E panel, 102 AISA-.
Y4.E panel In SSS and SLL&CS alone. Are we supposed to consider these votes as pro-reservation?!) It isev1dent that to talk about a 'left campus' today is day-dreaming. Interestingly, SFI-AISF and AISA are onewhen they th~mselves wou.ld want us to believe that the Y4E and ABVP votes are the expression of the politicsof communalism and reaction. For the SFI-AISF and AISA, NSUI, ABVP this is but an extension of the politics.
that their parent parties practice in their race to get into the parliament. It is the convenient logic of backroom.
maneuvering of vote bank politics where everybody wins except the masses. .
Walking the mandate: This election has just concluded at a time when we awake to the reality that themuch tom-tommed implementation of reservation policy In the campus has been fraudulent! That they haveput the underprivileged students whose performance was on par with the general category in the qualifyingexams and interviews also in the reserved list so that the really needy in the category were kept out. A testcase of subversion from within! .
AND THERE IS GOING TO BE ANOTHER ELECTION ROUND THE CORNER where the studentrepresentatives to the Academic Council (AC) and the Board of Studies (BoS) would be elected under thesupervision of the administration; those who have a CGPA less than 6 would not be allowed to contest inthese posts. It is the age of good governance and capacity building. And it comes with a catch. The student.
who speaks good English who can always be in the good books of the faculty will easily be the candidate for.
the AC and BoS. How the caste/class ridden hierarchy (what the Y4E argues for) in our society is smuggledthrough the backdoor under the garb of a seemingly democratic measure of the administration is tor everyoneto see. Not to say that the authoritarian move of the administration to handpick the student representativesfor the AC and BoS will further undermine the already depoliticized student politics in the campus. .
This is where the meaning of the mandate comes Into question. Is the Union ready to take up the challenge offighting the forces of liberalisation, privatization and globalisation that is fast engulfing the JNU campus? Orare they happy and content to loll on the projections about the mandate in page 3s of the print media or thepop-cult of the 24x7 channels. Increasingly, the rhetoric of the politics of mandate Rests In Peace in thepress releases and pamphlets. The rest of the year Is meant for the dog fight (as has been the years thathave passed us) between two factions of the union, one led by the SFI-AISF and the other by the AISA. Y4Ewould be busy preparing for UPSC or any other competitive exam to become babus. And that is their politics. .
A Mandate for the Mainstream India: The need of the hour There are millions and millions of faceless.
people in this country whose mandate for a square meal a day, right to a dignified existence, even right to lifeand shelter are hardly heard or understood. We have a country whose growth is determined by the ups anddowns in the sensex curves and not by the well-being of the people. We have a prime minister who calls sellout of the country's resources initiated by his government and his predecessors 'development'. Millions aredeprived of education. Lakhs of farmers are committing suicide due lack of opportunities for productive.
agriculture. Thousands and thousands are displaced from the land that belonged to them as It has been givenon a platter to the MNCs. Thousands are sacrificed at the alter of national integration and national security..
In this scenario the question is, when we fight for a reservation policy will there be a generation available toavail that right in the future? Because, the fight for reservation in educational Institutions and jobs havebecome Inseparable from the fight against privatization, liberalization and globalization which are eliminatingall possibilities of employment opportunities. Voting X or Y into the union won't ensure that a pro-reservation,pro-people, pro-student mandate is ensured. What is most important is a constant vigil on all activities of theunion. Pulling up the student groups (Including we nt DSU) for their capitulation towards any anti-student,anti-people measure from the administration. Cautioning them against their lethargy. A voice raised againstpro-imperialist, pro-market education is a definite stride that will strike resonance with all those unheardvoices that are trampled in the violent expansion of capital supported and promoted by the Indian state. Thisonly can ensure a progressive mandate, a pro-reservation mandate, a pro-democratic education in the JNUcampus. This is also the mandate of mainstream India -that of the struggling masses of India-for which theyare ready to stake their lives. We thank the student community In responding to the questions that we haveraised in this election, and showing solidarity to a militant, democratic student's movement. Come let us joinhands to strengthen the culture of dissent and criticality for a pro-people, democratic education. .
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Procrustean Bed* Aw~its JNU.Communi~.
Resist it through Historical Referendum. on 20th April .
Denigration of the wisdom of common students of the campus is unacceptable but unde1standable..
Misplaced attempts to undertake spineless, anonymous and naive acts in the nam.e of common.
students discredit their voice. This could be and should be avoided and resisterl Mn+i.vated ana.
··:tiated news reports in media violate sacred canons ofjournalism and appear to be part of a design 2010 .
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of those politic:::U forces who find JNU's stature as a.J. institution of eminence and stature an eyesore. andIf institutions like JNU are allowed to cave in to such tactics, it takes a colossal toll and 2.bets like.
"institutional crimes" like the one noted by the Delhi High Court, which referred to "the utterly .
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indefensible conduct" of the present regime, terming it as akin to "the writ of a monarch in medieval ----.
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times" "who could run unquestion ed" and who was "accountable to none". Such a regime is indeed .
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"disquieting". the court observed. The Referendum is an occasion to undo the pre-planned (ar.
assault and to retrieve JNU's honour. A large number of students in JNU have been denied the rp!.
del::10-~rauc right to participate in student elections so far, here is an opportunity undo the same. .
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Student community ofJNU of all shades must ponder over the ulterior motives that are manifest in ~ .
the pattern of such acts and their reporting which appears as "paid news" to give it a bad name, in .
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a calculated move to kill JNU in installments. Disruptive action s and unruliness witnessed in the .
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campus a while ago is unbecoming of students. It is a consequence of glaring ignorance about what.
constitutes a considerec political intervention and an inability to see through of objective of such a.
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machinations. Miscreants of dubious hues may be forgiven for their flippancy; after all, they have i.
been depriYed of political education by the higher judiciary. This unprecedented Referendum is.
the submission by the student community of its public approval/disapproval ofcurrent state.
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of affairs. It is also an exercise in political education. .
)Jotv.ithstanding one's academic pre-occupations, if one is a student of J NU and has n ever ever.
participated in its election process, it is indeed D n1atter of regret for a life time. \Vhat will one tell.
the corJ.ing e('nera.. ions about the vibrai1t pol.i.tk.:.J <. :1lturc of JI~U. if one has participated in it, the.
proposed. Referendum on 20th ~pril becomes all the more significant for the JNU student.
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community. The present regime is anti-student, anti-woman, anti-worker and anti-environment..
It"s a Referendum to change the rot iJ1 the present system that is brutally changing the landscape of.
the JNU both literally and figuratively. .
In its megalomania, a psychopathological condition that is characterized by delusional fnntasies,.
the present regime has pre-decided the role and thoughts of the student community on seminal.
issues of national importance, to be apolitical and expects them to act like an anti-politics.
machine. The present regime, it acolytes and beneficiaries want students to be of same shape and.
size. It \vanLs them to be put on Procrustean bed*. Any attempt to reduce men to one standard, one.
way of thinking, or one way of acting, is called placing them on Procrustes' bed, and the person whomakes the attempt is called Procrustes. Procrustes was a robber of Attica, who placed all who fell into his hands upon an iron bed. If they were longer than the bed, he cut ofT the redundant part; ifshorter, he stretched them till they fitted it. You know, for sure, who is this Procrustes in the.
JNU campus. .
This Referendum provides a historical opportunity to participate in an election process to resist.
1mpudent efforts to fiddle ·Nitr... the JNU Act and Statutes against ~he wishes of the JNU community..
Over the last se\·eraJ years, vested interests have developed in the campus some of whom have been.
exposed; some others would be exposed if and only if JNU gets a new regime. Referendum is anabsolute inalienable right of the people to decide and determine the path and destiny of theCniversity, to choose anew and change its direction. This democratic process invites you to joinhands w1th the student community and the larger JNU community is in a moment of crisis. All.
sane com_!llon students have a duty to protect JNU and its glorious heritage from the civil.
rights robbery, which was attempted recently by participating in the 2Qtb April Referendum. .
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Hands Across the Sand gathering at Folly Beach, SC on August 4, 2012 to say "no" to offshore drilling and "yes" to clean energy. Photos courtesy of Foxworthy Studios (www.foxworthystudios.com).