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Dr. S. K. Tiwari with other Staff on the occasion I.O.L. Camp at Sandwa Chandrika CHC, Pratapgarh, Uttar Prades, INDIA
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Not just this, the UPA Govt. has also sought to build and reaffirm military, commercial and strategic ties with military junta of Burma and the racist colonialist Israeli. It is matter of shame and shock that the UPA regime is defending these alliances with militaristic and racist colonial regimes even in the face of their increasing brutality. No wonder SFI in the campus, while issuing its belated solidarity for Burmese people struggle for democracy, never condemned their ally UPAs military and commercial support for the military junta. .
The Response of JNU Students Movement and JNUSU to the Burning Questions of Our Time .
The ongoing peoples movements and their brutal repression by the state, as well as the assault of anti-people policies all call urgently for a powerful intervention by JNUSU. It was the AISA representatives in JNUSU, led by the JNUSU Vice President and General Secretary, who led the involvement of JNU students on all these issues and stood up against displacement, draconian laws and caste repression in the country. .
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The SFI representatives in JNUSU were conspicuous by their silence, constrained by their cosy relationship with UPA and support of the misdeeds of their CPI(M) government in West Bengal. .
On Reservations and Rights of SC/STs and OBCs .
The last year saw a renewed offensive by YFE, who worked to stall 27% reservation and subjected the pro-reservation forces to social humiliation and virulent casteist attacks, marshalling both legal and social means against the forces of social justice. It was the AISA who rose up to the challenge and met this offensive head-on through a 34-day hunger strike, challenging YFE every inch of the way. .
The AISA leadership in JNUSU articulated a strong position in the April 10 AC meeting, in favour of implementation of 27% reservation and 54% seat increase without any staggering in JNU. In the meeting called by the SSS Dean, it was only the AISA councillor from SSS, Pallavi Deka who was present and asserted the above position. In protest against the Supreme Court stay on OBC quota, it was AISAs JNUSU office bearers who called for a Protest March on campus and at Parliament Street. Implementation of 27% reservation remains a key question and the machinations of YFE to derail it will be robustly defeated. .
AISA and its JNUSU leadership have stood in solidarity with AIIMS doctors against the victimization of dalits and violation of Constitutional SC/ST quotas in AIIMS. They alone issued a statement of protest against the brutal lynching of a dalit college student, Chandrasen by upper caste goons in Pratapgarh, U.P. .
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On Struggles Against Corporate Land Grab and Police Firing .
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The AISA office bearers of JNUSU organied a protest-demo against the Nandigram firing; this was boycotted by SFIs JNUSU leaders. The JNUSU General Secretary visited Singur in December 2006, following Tapasi Maliks rape and murder by CPI(M) leaders. .
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In the case of the Khammam firing also, it was the AISA office bearers in JNUSU alone who called for a Protest Demo. Even when poor peasants under the banner of CPI(M) were killed, the JNUSU President and SFIs JNUSU representatives silence spoke louder than words! .
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The SIS Convenors report by SFIs Convenor has half-truths and silences that betray its anti-people position on SEZs, land-grab and Singur-Nandigram. The report claims to oppose SEZs for non-application of labour laws and complete exemptions to corporates, but fails to mention the key feature of SEZs i.e land grab and forced eviction of peasantry! It also does not explain why the CPI(M) MPs voted for the SEZ Act, and CPI(M)s West Bengal Govt was one of the first to implement SEZs in the country. Similarly, by its silence the report hides the truth of Singur and the established guilt of CPI(M) leaders in Tapasi Maliks rape and murder. The SFI claims that the Nandigram firing is regrettable, but in the same breath blames naxalites and the opposition for provoking the firing! Not surprisingly, the Congress govt in AP too uses this argument to defend the Khammam firing! Are we surprised that the SFI leadership in JNUSU failed to express protest on Khammam? The claim of regretting Nandigram firing is also false, given the statement of CPI(M)s Central Committee member Benoy Konar who said, The CPI-M is not at all ashamed of the Nandigram incident and the question of giving compensation to families of those killed in police firing on 14 March or taking action against police officials doesnt arise. (The Statesman July 31, 07) Is such shameless callousness the CPI(M)s or SFIs version of regret?! .
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On Democratic Rights Violations by the Indian State .
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The JNUSU office bearers from AISA organised a protest meeting against the spate of disappearances in Kashmir at the hands of the security forces. SFIs JNUSU representatives were conspicuous by their absence and silence. .
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When Delhi Police issued a booklet advising a food code for North East students and a dress code for North East girls, it was the JNUSU General Secretary alone who protested strongly against this racist and sexist text. .
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In opposition to Salwa Judum and the arrest of noted social activist Binayak Sen, the AISA councillors from SSS single-handedly organized protest and solidarity meetings with human rights activists on campus. .
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Solidarity with Democracy Movements .
JNUSU office bearers from AISA held a Burma Solidarity student-youth meeting in February to support the movement against dictatorship. After the recent brutal crackdown on the monks movement for democracy in Burma, only JNUSU General Secretary has issued a statement of protest JNUSU President has been conspicuously silent. Also SFIs token solidarity with Burmas resistance was shamefully not backed with a strong condemnation of the UPAs military support for the killer Burmese junta. .
Workers Rights on Campus .
JNUSU office bearers from AISA held a workshop to discuss implementation of workers rights and minimum wages in JNU SFI representatives in JNUSU all boycotted this workshop. .
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Sri Ajay Singh, Education Officer and Krishna Kumar Pandey With poor family at Pratapgarh, U.P. INDIA
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In Rajasthan, hundreds of construction workers under the banner of.
AICCTU participated in rallies and demonstration in Pratapgarh, Salumbar,.
Udaipur, Jhunjhunu, Ajmer, Bhabri and Jaipur. In Gujarat, AICCTU activists.
organized successful strike in sectors like Forest, Water supply and public.
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In Guwahati, trains were stopped where AICCTU leader Bibek Das and.
several others were arrested. Under the banner of AICCTU construction,.
contract and ASHA workers participated in the strike throughout the state.
and held programmes. In Dibrugarh women workers under the banner of.
AICCTU organized road block and were arrested. In Guwahati Oil refinery,.
loading and unloading workers affiliated to AICCTU and others held strike..
In Tea gardens also, the affiliated union of AICCTU organized strike in.
several tea gardens. On 21st trains were stopped for several hours at.
Dibrugagarh and Tinsukia stations by workers led by AICCTU..
In PGI, Chandigarh, the contract workers led by AICCTU were on total.
strike on the issues of implementation of agreement of same wage for same.
work and provision of housing. An impressive rally of 700 workers and.
road blockade was organized at the crossing of sector16-17- one of the.
most important centres in Chandigarh..
Mansa witnessed a total Bandh in the leadership of CPI(ML) and AICCTU. In.
Batala, National Highway-1A was blocked for several hours. In several.
other disticts like Sangrur, Gurdaspur and others, AICCTU took leading role.
in organizing strike..
AICCTU activists protested at different places in Odisha including the state.
capital Bhubaneswar, and 700 of them were arrested at different places in.
Odisha. AICCTU led the bandh protests at Rayagada, Bhadrak, Puri,.
Bhubaneswar, Kendrapara, Pipili, Gajapati, Lanjigarh and Bhabanipatna,.
Rourkela, Jharsuguda and Khordha. Led by Radhakant Sethi, a procession in.
Bhubaneshwar marched from Nagbhushan Bhavan to Rajmahal. 100.
activists including Mahendra Parida, AICCTU Secretary, Seema Sethi, Janaki.
Rao, Bharat Ghadei, and Ajit Nayak were arrested. In Bhadrak, 100 activists.
were arrested. In Rayagada Tirupati Gamango and 200 other workers.
arrested; in Gajapati 300 construction workers were arrested when they.
were demonstrated at district head quarters, in Puri, workers were.
arrested when blockading trains at Puri railway station. At Balugan, too,.
100 were arrested when they were halted the Prasanti express, after which.
the procession moved to Balugan NAC areas..
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Nakuri Bai and Nanu Ram proud to show of the anicut built on the river, called Hanuman helps irrigate lands and provide better crop in Biledi village, Pratapgarh district, Rajasthan. People own it, run it, service it and enjoy the fruits of collective decision-making
Akhil Bhartiya Jankalyan Vikas Samiti organised annual eye camps in two Districts' (ALLAHABAD, PRATAPGARH) of Uttar Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, INDIA
Dr. D. K. Singh with Child Patient at Free Child Health Camp at Ramnagar, Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh, INDIA
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arready know how the AFSPA far from curbing "terrorists" is actually a living terror for the common people of.
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North-East and Kashmir. On the Sethusamudram project too, the BJP's position was weak and unconvincing -since the NDA Govt itself had initiated and passed the project, and since there was no evidence whatsoever that the reef was a man-made .
construction. However, the UPA Government surrendered abjectly to the Sangh Parivar and BJP's communal .
designs and attempts to pass off mythology as histor-y, by withdrawing the ASI's affidavit on the issue and taking .
action against the ASl officials who had quite rightly pointed out that mythological texts could not be used to prove the historical existence ofa 'Ram bridge'. ical Continuing with the BJP-Ied NDA regime's foreign policy, the UPA Government has tied India in 'strategic' slavery >en..
UPA-United Partners OfAmerica?! .
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to tbe imperialist USA. The red carpet welcome to George Bush, the vote against the Iran at the IAEA and the Nuke gly .
energy needs of India's growing economy are proved to be a lie by the fact that at best, by 2020, nuclear energy will .
Deal are proofof the UPA GovL's pro-imperialist positions. The UPA Govt. 's claims that the Nuke Deal will solve the tUS. .
provide merely 7% -and that too not 7% of India's total energy needs but just India's electricity needs. Apart from .
formidable costs of imported nuclear plants, there are enormous environmental, health and safety hazards. Real .
purpose of the Nuke Deal is not energy but larger strategic relationship between USA and India whereby USA will .
closely control every aspect of India's economy, military and foreign policy. The Hyde Act reveals the real text ofthis .
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slavish deal: whereby the Deal is contingent on India's foreign policy being 'congruent' to that of the USA. BJP's 'opposition' to the deal is purely farcical as they were the original proponents of the deal. Unfortunately, CPl-CPI(M), ~te .
is performing yet another political theatre of pretending to "oppose'' the deal. CPI-CPI(M)must explain : why .
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afterall they are not asking for· a vote on the deal in the Parliament? Why are CPI-CPI(M) interested only in lee .
"pause" and "debate"(without vote) and not eject and reject? ng .
Not just this, the UPA Govt. is strengthening everyday its military, commercial and strategic ties with racist .
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colonialist Israeli and the military dictatorship of Burma even in the face of their increasing brutality. Shockingly .
CPI-CPI(M) and their representatives in our campus, once again, never condemn UPA's military and .
commercial support with these killer and racist regimes. Infact, CPI(M) govt in Bengal itself bas commercial to .
ties with colonial and racist Israel! ~d .
JNUSU in the face of the Burning Questions ofOur Time .
The ongoing people's movements and their brutal repression by the state, as well as the assault of anti-people policies .
Vice President and General Secretary, who ensured continuous support of JNU students against displacement, demand a powerful support and solidarity by JNUSU. However it was only that section of JNUSU, led by the JNUSU .
draconian laws and caste repression in the country. The other section of JNUSU leadership were conspicuous by .
their silence, as they were more keen to serve their political bosses in UPA and CPI(M) government in West .
Bengal. .
In the face of renewed offensive by YFE, and their machinations to stall 27% reservation, social humiliation and On Reservations and Rights ofSC/STs and OBCs (l .
virulent casteist attacks through administrative and social means against the forces of social justice, JNUSU led by the YP and Gen. Secy articulated a strong position in the April I0 AC meeting, in favour of implementation of 27% .
reservation and 54% seat increase without any staggering in JNU. When the Supreme Court stay on OBC quota, it was .
JNUSU YP and Gen. Secy alone who called for a Protest March on campus and at Parliament Street. Implementation .
of 27% reservation remains a key question and all attempts to derail it must be robustly countered. .
quotas in AIIMS and protested against the brutal lynching ofa dalit coliege student, Chandras~n by upper caste goons We stood in solidarity with AIIMS doctors against the victimization of dalits and violation of Constitutional SC/ST .
in Pratapgarh, U.P. .
The JNUSU VP and Gen. Secy. orga 11ised a prol~st-dcmo against the Nandigram firing and masscre; this .
On Struggles Against Corporate Land Ga·ab and Police Firing .
was boycotted by the .JNUSU Vic~ President and Joint Secretary. The JNUSU General Secretary ''isited Siugur in December 2006, foilowing Tapasi Malik's ntpe and mlrdcr uy CPI(M) leaders. .
In the case of the Khammam firing also, it was th~ JNUSU VP and Gen. Sccy who called for a Protest .
Demo. while the .JNUSli President boycotted it! Such silences and boycotts can only be explained by the .
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fact that CPl(M) itself is engaged in the worst form of state repression and forced eviction of peasantry in .
unmam bccaus£' in th~ mh·ror ·Of Khammam, they see the .
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West Bengal for SEZs! They arc silent on Kh.
face ofNandigrn.m. .
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