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All India Students' Association(AISA) .
31.5.06 .
KE FOR SOCIAL ·JUSTICE COMPLETES 2"d DAYParticipants: Awadhesh, Ganga Sahay Meena, Ganpat, Chandan Kumar.
Join tno(~I~SSION in Solidarityand Public Address by Dr. Vikas Bajpai, senior doctor from AIIMS,.
Ganga Dhaba 31.5.06(tonight) .
9.30 pm.
To deny the existence of inequality isto perpetuate andcollaborate with that inequality.YFE's notion of 'Equality.
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OBCs sufferdisCrimination,and to claim, instead,that reservations ' is to deny that SC/STs or.
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the 'forward castes'. YFE is ratherlike that obscure organisation of.
'Utpeedl Prxush' which claims that men are oppressed by laws like theAnti-Dowry Act! Similarly,the relatively privileged students who constitute.
the base ofthe YFE pose as 'victims' of reservatlon.Students of all sections are in fact victims-not of reservation but ofliberalisation,.
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which YFE defends rather than challenges..
The insecurity and concern ofthe broad mass of studentsat shrinking spaces ofaffordableeducationand available jobs has agenuine basis.
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-and we appeal to all sections of students to joinus in waging astruggle to ensure that the UPA Government reverses the policies of privatisation.
to increase Government spending on education, keep its promise of increasing seats at affordablecost, and ensure that an equitable quality of.
school and higher education is made available to everystudent from any background..
lfthe most needy amongstthe deprived sections are to be able to avail ofreservations in higher education,then the policy of reservations must.
be backed up by an end tocommercialisation of primary and highereducation (if not,only those among the OBCs who can afford to pay high fees.
at school and college will actually be able to avail reservations).At the same time, if thepoor among the.
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schools and colleges, thenuniversally available education of equitable quallty is the only answer. 'general' students are to fmd aplace in.
'Reservations' or '.
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percentage of uppercaste poor is onlyatoken and temporary measure -the genuine solution can lie only in ending the 'fee salewaiversof educationas a .
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comrrodity,and ensuring ~suniversal availability as aright..
Congress-BJP's Doublespeak on Reservations.
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Therefore,the real test for the Govt'scommitment tosocial justicein educationis whether it is willingto introduce aholistic and comprehensive.
policy for education,of which reservations will be an integral part.The UPA Government shamefully falls this test. The fact that theCongress has.
introduced reservations and BJP has supported the move is no credit to these parties-it is simply atribute to the political assertion ofthe OBCs,.
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W'hich has compeUed the same Congress and BJP,whose leaders fuelledthe anti-Mandai fire in the 90s, to accept reservations as areality today..
Even now,their vacillation and doublespeak are all too glaringly obvious. The NSUI in JNUhasmaintained astudied silence on the issue;.
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Congress'poster boy Rahul Gandhi has saidthat .
'both sides' (the meritocratic YFEas well asthe OBCs) have logic that needs to be considered..
Meanwhile BJP leaders like Sushrna Swaraj have addressed protests of anti-reservation doctors. While ABVP had aleaflet supporting 27%.
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reservations,it has not held or participated in asingle actjonin favourof reservations,rather ABVP leaders are gracing the YFE hunger strike.
shamiana! .
Unfortunately, ever since the 19 May violence by anti-reservationist forces on the JNU campus, in place of the much-needed.
unity of prcrreservation forces,we have witnessed aUnited Front of SFI and its fronts/satellites like Vampanthi Vichar Manch, PSU,.
etc ... against AISA! .
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Challenge YFE's Claim to Represent JNU!Campuses Belong to All,They'reNot the Fiefdom of the Meritocrats!.
SFI'sobsession with AISA-bashing has made it blind to the need to challenge the rneritocratic YFE head--on. They have taken the ridiculous.
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standof declaring AISA's hunger strike as well as the YFE as 'irrelevanf on the ground that it is notdirectedagainst JNU Admin., but against the.
Govt. In neighbouring AIIMS, the anti-reservationists' hunger strike is being countered by demonstrations of AIIMS doctors in favour of.
reservations. Why is the AIIMS campus the site of these protests, rather than the HRD Ministry? The fact is that campuses are symbolic ofyouth.
mood;and the media 1s trying to project all campuses as the bastions of anti-reservation voices. It is up to progressive forces to challenge this.
image, by showing that pro-social justice forces are willing to fight every step ofthe way. IfAIIMS doctors can hold pro-reservations demos to.
challenge the myth of anti-reservation monopoly,mustn.
'twe at least do the same inJNU? SFI, it seems,would prefer to allow the media to sellthe story that JNU, instead ofbeing aLeft bastion, has become grazing ground for the YFE!AISA's Record of Fighting for Social Justice.
The SFI has repeated awhole set oftired old slanders against AISA,accusing AISA of being anti-Mandai..
We challenge SFI to produce asingleAISA leaflet with the slogan 'No Mandai, No Kamandal' (we are sure SFI has elaborate.
archives)! We challenge the SFI to name asingle member who 'left AISA in 1999 because AISA failed to support 27%reservations'.
and produce evidence that AISA did not support 27%reservations. Rather in 1999, itwas AI SA who proposed 27%reservation to be.
combined with economic,regional and gender deprivation point,finally forcing the SFI-Ied JNUSU to change its initial stance that"Mandai recommendations and deprivation points cannot be implemented simultaneously"..
AISA Was Born In Head-on Collisionwith Casteist and Communal Forces! We wouldlike to remind themthat Yes, AISA wasborn on North Indian campuses challenging the anti-Mandai and Mandir frenzy!AISA.
'sfounding National Conference in Allahabad.
University on 9August 1990, just a day after the Govt.'s Mandai Commission announcement, was gheraoed and attacked by .
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