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JNUSU condemns tItc ·rmposrtron· of E·111er·g·--ncv· 1 in Pakistan and support .s the , movement , of Pak.. istani citizens for.
'" fl p ki d , JNlJSU also condemns even: attempt b) US unpenalrsm to select . a ru1er or a star.1 -such a.
emocrac} . ' ' .J . ~ I' ~ly fuel t . . I .
· never b " subst1for democracy, US can et ror t 1e .
puppet reg1me can e ... .tute and unpena rsm oru 111 subcontinent. Proposer: Khalid Seconder: Monalisa Pnssed unanimously .
JNUSU condemns the ,·iolence that led to the firing on peasantry in Khammam and the complicity of the .state government ·m t h' 1s acuo· n. JNUSLI stands in solidarity with the struggles of the people of Khammam for land nghts.
d tl 1 . . and condemns the policy of the state government to undo the land reform laws and reserve 1an or t.1e cor poratcs. Proposer: Meera Seconder: Sucheta Passed unammousJy .
JNUSU condemns the brutal killing of a Dalit youth Chakrasen in Pratapgarh, UP by casteist goons who could not tolerate his academic success and selection in an engi-neering course. JNUSU ex?resses s~1ock at tJ1e prev~lence ~f such medieval castcist intolerance in society which pr~vents students from depnved sectwns from accessmg thetr right to education and social dignity. JNUSU demands tJ1at his killers, who are being patTonized by an upper-caste .
MLA belonging to the mling 13SP, be punished. .
Proposer: Mangalam Seconder: Ragbib Passed unanimously .
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The demand for recognition of Madarsa certificates for admission to BA Ist year has been a long standing demand of the students. This council demands that the administration must recognise these certificates from the next academic session. fhe cow1cil demands that the administration must ratify this decision in the forthcoming.
Academic Council meeting. .
Proposer: Anirban Seconder: Taneesha .
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Passed unanimously .
JNUSC condemns the violence unleashed by the members of certain political orgaruzations on campus during the Presidential debate, who sought to whip up commtmal frenzy and indulged in massive physical violence which could have had fatal consequences. JNUSU considers this assault a deliberate ploy to obstruct and create a security threat for JNU's unique election process conducted by the student community. JNUSU also hails the role of the JNUSU EC. consisting entirely of our fellow students who in the face ofthis massive physical threat showed remarkable courage and determination to see that the JNUSU elections and its institutions which are the collective .
asset of the JNU student community was upheld and preserved. .
Proposer: Sucheta Seconder: Meera Fayour: 9, Against·: 0, Abstentions: 7 Passed .
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This JNUSU council strongly condemns the large~scale violence unleashed by a particular organisation in this year's Presidential Debate. An unmly mob indulged in violence against common students as well as Election Committee members and Presidential candidates. The proceedings of the Presidential debate could not be completed because of the chaos which was created. However, the comment made by one of the Presidential .
candidates is also unwarranted. .
There is no place for such violence in our university. Also the attack on rhc Election Committee members which is .
a unique democratic institution of our university is highly condemnable. ' .
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The JNUSU ?emands that strict punis_h:ment be given to aU those who were involved in violence on that night. .
Proposer: Zaco Seconder: Davya Passed unanimously .
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JNUSU demands speedy implementation of 27% reservation for OBCs and 54% increase in seats and demands that the Supreme Court li ft its stay on this constitutional provision without delay. ' Proposer: Sucheta Seconder: Monalisa p d · 1 .
asse unammous y On the occasion of ~he _90th a1~niversary of the ~olshevik ~evolution, this JNUSU council pledges to continue to struggle for an ega_htar~an .society. The Bolshevik Revolution was the first attempt achieve a classless society .
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and served as an ~n~p1rat1on .to th~ ~eopl~ of countries that were colonised. In the context of the conti ued .
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onslaug~t of col?mahsm _an~ rmpenahsm m _newer forms, this council affi.rms the pledge to fight against these.
forces Wtth the atm of ach1evmg <m equal and JUst society. Proposer: Taneesba Seconder: Anirban Passed unanimously .
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JNUSU ~ondemns. the pa.r~icipalion .of UP~~ member, Bhure Lal in the JNUSU election meetin of a 'a.uJar group: Wi th a ~artis~n, antJ-reservauon POSitiOn. Such acts compromise the neutral character of ~PSC::::body and are enoug to Slltke fear ~nd apprehensron Ill the minds of those numerous UPSC examinees about the biased .
character of the board of whrch he will be a member JNUSU demands of th UPSC tak · · Mr .
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1urc s un ermme tne neutraltty and Impartiality ofa critical public body such as the UPSC.
Proposer: Sucheta Seconder: Shcphalika p d · · .
asse unanamously .
For the la}t tlu·ee years the UPA g?vernme1.1t h~s not taken any concrete steps to implement the 20,000 Maulana.
A~a? Melrt Cu_m Mea~s S~hol~rslups for mmonty students, despite repeated promises being made by the Finance .
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Mrmster P_. Chldambaram . hJs budget speeches. A few scholarships which have been implemented are confmed to. ~ro[~sswnal courses: Thrs JNUSU d.emands .that the net of these scholarships should be extended beyond~10fess10nal ~nd tech~tcal _ courses. Th1s counctl also demands tl1at the scholarships should be immediately.
tmplementcd m our un1versrty. .
Th.e Si J~gle Girl ~hild Scholarships announced by the Central Government should also be implemented in our.
un1verstty 1mmedtately. .
Proposer: Divya Seconder: Zico Passed unanimously .
JNUSU demands implementation of the Srikrishna Committee report and condemns the Maharashtra Govt of the Congress for refusi ng to implement it. JNUSU also condemns the Maharashtra CM for giving a clean chit to BaJ Thackeray. JNUSU demands justice for lhe victims of state-sponsored communal violence -be it at Mumbai,.
Coimbatorc or Hashimpura (Meerut). .
Proposer: Meera Seconder: Divya Passed unanimously .
The JNUSU council is opposed to any kind of corporate infiltration in our university. We believe that any kind of corporate funding is a backdoor attempt to enforce privatisation and commercialisation in educational institutions .
like ours. .
The JNUSU opposes the proposal of Tata funding for setting up a digital archive in the School of Arts and Aesthetics. The .TNUSU would build pressure on the JNU administration and the UGC to ensure that government funding is made available for the digital archives and all other infrastructuraJ facilities in the School. Proposer: Amit Seconder: Divya Passed unanimously .
This council condemns lhe terrorist attacks at Hyderabad, Ludhiana and Ajmer which resulted in the loss of many .
innocent lives. Such mindless terrorist violence aimed at creating communal tension in the country should be .
resisted tlu·ough people's unity. The JNUSU council stands in solidarity with the victims of the terrorist attacks and .
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demands punishment of the guilty. .
Proposer: Tianla Seconder: Divya Passed unanimously .
The incident of large-scale. mass molestation of girl students of Delhi University by large numbers of men who .
had come to the North Campus for selection to the pol ice force is highly condemnable. This incident is one of the .
many instances revealing the deep-rooted nature of the pat~iarchal ~undset not just in ?ur soc!ety but ~orse. mO,D2 .
those seeking to be upholders of law order and justice_. Th1s council cond~mns the farlu~e of the Delhi Pohce .
the Delhi University administration in bringing the gurlty to book and theu ~tten:pt to. dtscourage st~dent protests .
in the matter. This council stands in solidarity vvith the students of Delh1 Umvers1ty who orgarused a power .
agitation on the matter. . , . . . . .
This colll1ci1 condemns tJ1e derogatory comments made by a Pohce Comm.ISSion:r of Delha wh1ch propagate .
highly discriminatory and stereotypical view of North ~ast stude~ts, es~crally ~1rl stude_nts of the No~ ~~~..1 .
These incidents have highlighted the deeply ingrained bws and patnarchy Ill the nundset of the very agenc1es .
arc supposed to uphold law and justice. . .
Proposer: Tianla Seconder: Amat Passed unanimously .
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Singing Bushlark (Mirafra cantillans) calling on leaf of Tectona grandis in Pratapgarh, Rajasthan, India
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi waves at an election rally in Pratapgarh in Uttar Pradesh. While speaking on the occasion he took on the BJP and said that the BJP balloon will burst this time as had happened in 2004 and 2009.
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06 Icurrent affairs ITEHEUH MI'>IIUA and co-accuc;edAkash Dubey, both Brahmms, are.
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abscondmg, while the police havearrested lndrajit Paswan and h1ther accused IS also a Pas1,.
but loca ls say he dtcd four years ago. TheGautam~ d1d not want to name the.
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Paswans rn the fiR, but the poiKe. they say.rorced them do so They also allege: thatM1shra contm u..:s to v1~1t the villagt.', oftenNOT EVEN A HUNDRED DAYS OF BSP RAJ IN at night, but he nnd Dubey are still at largebecau~..: of prt·ssure from the local B~P.
UP AND A BRAHMIN PARTY MLA IS MLA. Ram Shiroman1 Shukla, also a.
ACCUSED OF SHIELDING FELLOW BRAHMINS Krahmin ~nd said tn be me.: nf ,'v1ic;hra·sclose a"~ociate~. 5huJ.:I::J denws the charge..
IN THE MURDER OF A DAUT. SHIVAM VI] .
culling 1t '"fabc prop.tganda bemg spread.
REPORTS FROM PRATAPGARH by the Sama)wadi Party pt'<lplc~ and.
claim111g that it was ht" who had a second .
BARBARITY: Chakrasen was 21 years rtr< lodged under the sc:IST (Pn:vent1on of old when he was beaten to death AtroCities) Act, and that he also gave Rs.
3.000 towards Chakrasen's last rites. ··on E LOVED to run; says the contrary," says Agnisen. "Shukla of-.
Agnisen Gautam of his fered us Rs 5 lakh to drop charges against elder brother. Chakrasen, at Mishra and Dubey:· The Gautams also their home in the Dalit wanted to take the body by car strajght to (Chamar) basti of the vil-UP Chief Minister Mayawatis residence.lage ofBhadevera in Pratapgarh, a district in QBut,"says Agnisen, "Shukla and thepoliceeastern Uttar Pradesh. Chak:rasen, 21, wasjust back from .
Ius mormng ablution and a kllomecre-iungrun. He hadn't had enough sleep becauseSantosh Mishra, in the neighbouringBrahmin basti, had a loud kirtan going allnight. But run he felt he must. As he set out forced the drivers ofthe rwo cars we hired.
past M.ishra's general store, Chakrasen's to go awaY:' Agnisen also alleges that.
mind must have been occupied by anxietyfor the future. Shukla told the police at the Patti station-He had just been admitted to the B. house to let Mishra and Dubey off: "~rtolr.
kahen ki woh Pandit hain, unhein chhod.
Tech course of the Uttar Pradesh Techni-cal University -becoming an engineer helped. There was no great pressure on do, tumhein ashinvad denge (he said they would get him a lucrative job, but that Why did Santosh Mishra and Akash were Pandits and would bless them ifyou.
Chakrasen to take up a job, but how long Dubey do this? "How do we know?" weeps let them gor.
would be some years away. He had already could his mother and grandfather support Chakrasen's mother. Agnisen also says that the family hadftlled out several forms for government him? He had two brothers-Agnisen, 20, Actually. she does know. It has to do with told the president of the SSP's Pratapgarh.
jobs and was due to go on August 5 to had just joined Allahabad University, and the PDS ration shop. When the shop was al-.
Dhanbad for the Railways' exam. "He had Shaktisen, 15, was in high school. unit, RD Gautam. a Dalit, that the BSP MLA.
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lotted to the Gautams in May 2004. Mishra was using h1s position to save the accused..
bought a new bag for the trip; Agnisen An hour after he left home on August 1, had a condition: he wanted far more rations ln response, claims Agnisen, Gautam said.
says, "it cost Rs 250~ Agnisen also displays somebody else had solved Chakrasen'sChakrasen's certificate from the British dilemma. It was the newspaper vendor from the shop than hi.s Above Powrty Line his party colleague was merely fulfillingratron card entitled him to. The Gautams his "jatigat kartav_ya (caste obligation):.
who brought the news to his grandfatht' with While the cop)' of the nR given to the.
an animaJ and arc bcatin1:1 him up:· 'laid tlw twlow powrly lintrurds?" s.\ys Shivmurtl. family is too faint to be legible -deliber-.
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'They have bound him hawker. Shivkumar and Agnlllt'll ruslwd !"nun thtn on, Mishra nursed .1 Antd~t' atdy. says tht' family -the post-mortem.
like an animal and are out -on the way, they found Chilknl~ told report says the cause of death was ·Js-.
slippers and the bottle ht hod t.dtc·n with .
Shlvmuru· ··rmJJ..,· J..o bl1111t' Ju tlmm,l'llhut phyxia as a result of acute mortem str.m-.
beating him up' him for his ablutiOn. C.:hnk1'iltcll h1111hc·lf padlwl1J..h11 llya Jro,JltlfrwnlumJ..aam nalu gulation~ The family also says that the po-.
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was discovered in the houtw ofone· IndrnJII oay·:~a (you'w put yourgrandson through u liet did not file u report on the scene ofthe.
School of Languages in Allahabad, where Paswan, a Dalit (Pas1) lie wn'i un tlw flc,o,, lot Ill '\Chtlohns. but 1 .
won't bt· ol any us(' tl\ cnme and that Mishra's father's name washe had enrolled to make up for the defi -bound. with a crowd amund hun, hnlf nl .
you):' Tht' hint wat. that. Chakrasen would dehberotdy falsified m tht FIR so then..
ciency in English that his government whom were kicking h1m a·, the otlwr hnlf bt murd!'rt>tl. Shlvrnurli cornplaint> local pl)h<l' ' tnttm. Are-The police deny these charges, and say.
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How did you cornc to lw hc·1 r?" 11 sponse camr ond thr police arrived to take the}1are doing all they can. Theyalso claimtween taking up a clerical JOb right away shocked Sh1vmurll ..~ ..krd hh ~r.JIIn the village modahties for compensation under tht.
and waiting for an engineering degree four "Santosh and Ak;lhh; said (:11nk1 ,1'11'11. AI Thnkurs stPppcd tn to plead with Shivmurt i: Atrocities Act are also being worked out..
years later. His father had died when .
which, both slJrtcd kicking him cvl'n "Apm gnon ka nuun/a /win, jamw do (it's a Regardless ofwhether lvlishra and DubeyChakrasen was just three. He and h1s two harder, says Shivmurtl, who w.1" tlwn villagt' mnllcr, let it be( Mishra apologised arc convicted, the Pratapgarh umt of thebrothers had gone to school thanks largely kicked ou t along with AKni~l'n. Both wrn· and Shtvnwrti withdrew his complaint. But SSP's Brahmin Bhaichara Committee willto their grandfather, 75-year-old Shivmurt1. slapped and thrratc·rwd tlwy llcd In ft'a1 tlw threats didn't stop. Mishra would intim-.
need a lot of moral courage now to walkThe family had begun doing well recently. .
oftheir lives. A !Itt lr later, the polic, tc:llinK proplc .
from Allnhnbnd. "Tumko bm·bad kar denge. the slogan, Brahmin shankbajayega. haathited them a PDS shop two years ago -that not to go thC're as Chakrascn had Jlrcady clwny nahm (1"11 rum you, I won't forgive Dilli jayega (the Brahmin wil blow the.
the gram pradhan of the da:y was Dalit .
died, and his body was being taken home. you);' 1s what Shlvmurti says he would say. conch shell, and take the BSP to Delhi). ~ .
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JNUSU Public Meeting.
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26.9.08 Khairlanji and The Ongoing Saga Of Atrocities On Dalits : Challenges Ahead.
speaker Prof. Gopal Guru CPS, JNU.
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Sutlej Mess 26.9.08(Tonight) 9.30pm.
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After nearly 60 years of having a constitution which prom- needs to be addressed..
ises a dream where caste-based discrimination belongs to a.
distant past, we still witness the most gruesome and barbaric In this incident, an objection was raised when a dalit stu-.
incidents of atrocities on dalits. In 2006, an entire dalit family in dent wanted to put up a picture of Dr. Ambedkar in his room..
Khairlanji was murdered and the women raped. This incident The manner in which the hostel administration dealt with this.
shockingly took place in full public view, with the connivance situation reveals the open reluctance to strongly oppose a.
of hundreds of onlookers. Their only crime was that they had casteist mentality. By his own admission, the Chief warden.
dared to be educated and break the shackles of an exploitative treated this incident as a simple case of a mild difference of.
caste order. Two years later, 6 people have been sentenced to opinion of two roommates over something innocuous. The chief.
death, and two with life imprisonment. The caste dimension of warden openly states that he does not see a caste dimension.
this incident was always clearly evident, and yet the guilty were in this incident!.
charged under the IPC, and not under the SC/ST (Prevention.
of Atrocities) Act. This attempt to sanitize the brutality of its Education is supposed to be about learning and inter-.
casteist intent belies any claim of honestly in dealing with the nalizing new values. It is the responsibility of a campus to.
entrenched casteism in society. inculcate democratic values in students. In the Periyar hostel.
case, ideally, the Chief warden should have explained to the.
Khairlanji is most unfortunately not an aberration or roommate of the dalit student that any opposition to the pic-.
an isolated incident. Caste-based discrimination and caste ture of Dr. Ambedkar reveals a casteist bias. Intolerance to a.
atrocities are a chilling reality in every part of the country. Just symbol of dalit assertion is the first step towards segregation..
to remember some of the cases reported in 2008 alone: In Such an attitude is plainly unconstitutional, and should not be.
a bizarre New Year Eve honour killing, an Indian father set entertained at any cost..
fire to his daughter's home in the USA killing his pregnant.
daughter, son-in-law and their three year old son, because Instead, the Chief warden chose to ignore the entrenched.
he could not bear the fact that she had married a lower caste casteist mindset that this incident revealed. In his own words,.
immigrant. In January, the eye of a dalit youth in Mahar- he tried to "negotiate", and "mediate" between the students,.
ashtra's Nanded district. was gouged out and acid from by asking the complainant to remove Dr. Ambedkar's portrait,a.
a car battery poured into it, simply for eloping with a minor suggestion which the warden thinks has "no problem"..
girl belonging to the upper caste Marathas. In Jan, a brahmin.
priest in Kanpur abused and beat up a dalit and his three Dr. Ambedkar had warned that simply instituting laws is.
friends on Tuesday when the latter tried to enter the fa- not enough to tackle a centuries old exploitative Brahminical.
mous Mahadev temple to offer prayers. In Feb, the owner of caste order..
a sweets shop pushed his dalit employee into a large pot.
of boilinIg oil, resulting in his death, after the man refused "Democracy is not a form of government, but a form of.
to work for him in Uttar Pradesh's Etawah district. In Oct, a social organization....[the formal framework of democracy].
dalit woman committed suicide in front of the Betul district involves ...an attitude of mind, and attitude of respect and.
Collectorate, when no action was taken the sarpanch's son, equality towards their fellows.".
who had raped her twice. These are just some of the incidents.
of caste brutalities. We are currently seeing an extremely dangerous trend in.
JNU, wherein attempts are being made to convert JNU into a.
Even in UP, where Mayawati's victory sharpened the laboratory for fanning a communal frenzy. Instead, this cam-.
aspirations of dalits for democracy and empowerment, dalits pus should become a platform where democratic secular and.
continue to bear the brunt of casteist assaults and atrocities. egalitarian values are inculcated..
We have not forgotten how a young dalit student, Chakrasen.
was murdered in Pratapgarh after he got admission into Join a public meeting tonight (Sep 26) at 9.30 pm, Sutlej.
an engineering college. mess on "Khairlanji And The Ongoing Saga Of Atrocities.
On Dalits: Challenges Ahead" to be addressed by Prof..
`He is fulfilling his jatigat kartavya (caste obligation).' - Gopal Guru..
that's what the President of the BSP Pratapgarh Unit said when.
asked about the local Brahmin BSP MLA who had harboured Regarding the case of caste abuse and victimization of a dalit.
(in his own home) the killer of Chakrasen (reported in Tehelka, student in Periyar hostel, JNUSU demands that the Equal Op-.
25 August 2007) portunities Office looks into the matter in all its seriousness..
Today, the JNUSU President went to the Periyar hostel office as.
Educational institutions also reveal this entrenched per yesterday's understanding that was reached following the.
casteist mentality. We have seen how SC students in AIIMS protest demonstration and collected the necessary documents..
are subjected to segregation, caste abuse and victimization..
In our own campus, we have seen how casteism is prevalent, Before the warden came to the office, a student who happened to.
abetted not just by some sections of the student community be present used unfair and objectionable language. We strongly.
but also by the JNU administration. The recent incident of disapprove and condemn such behaviour. We also strongly.
caste abuse in Periyar hostel is an eye-opener for those who condemn the subsequent response of some of the residents of.
live under the illusion that casteism is no longer a threat that Periyar hostel belonging to the ABVP, who gathered and physi-.
cally forced him out of the hostel..
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Md. Mobeen Alam.
President, JNUSU Jt. Secy., JNUSU.
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Mathura, Meerut, Pr-..tap&arh, Paizaaad, Bareilly,.
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Lucknow, Allahalaad... and now a&ain Muzar:rarna&ar! condemn the series ol rtotlngs, killings & hate mongering bv the sangh brigade under the SP reglmel .
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For the past 3 days, several districts ofwestern U.P. mcii.:Jdtng Muzzaffarnagar. Meerut. Shamli have seen attacks on the muslim .
rntnorities perpetrated by the goons of BJP-RSS-VHP-Congress with active complicity on the part of the SamaJwadi Pc;u1y state .
government. The official death toll has already crossed 30 with locals pointing out that the real figure is much higher as several .
'trigger' wasbodies are missing. The preparations for these attacks had been going for almost a fortnight. As per the reports. the an incident of eve teasing on the 27'h August following which two men murdered a Muslim boy Shanawaz alleging him to have been involved in the incident. In the subsequent days. the duo who murdered Shanawaz were also found dead in the same area. Using the death of these two men. the goons of BJP-RSS-VHP as well as the Congress got into action -doctored clips showing 'Muslim men killing Hindus who were protecting the honour of their sisters' were circulated far and wide, rumours were spread in a concerted manner and arms distributed in the rural hinterland of western UP. Representatives of 18 khap-.
panchayats gave a call last week for a mahapanchayat which was attended by severals MLAs belonging to both the BJP and .
the Congress While a journalist working with the IBN? Rajesh Verma was shot in the chest during the mahapanchayat. another .
local photographer lsrar Vakeel was dragged to the mahapanchayat as a 'prize catch'. When he tried to escape, he was chased by the fascist mob who beat him to death. Despite the area being turned into almost an army cantonment, the hindu fascist .
forces have been given a free run to loot, burn and kill since then. The massacres are still continuing. .
The SP government is actively complicit in several attacks on Muslim minorities. The goons of the RSS-VHP-Bajrang Dal .
are actively patronized by each and every parliamentary party. The SP is no different in this case with its social base rooted in the feudal right wing forces of Uttar Pradesh. The latest attacks in and around Muzaffamagar is only the latest in a series of over hundred attacks on the minorities over the past year and a half of SP's tenure. From Kosi Kalan. Pratapgarh. Bareilv. AUahabad, Faizabad. Ghaziabad to many other places it is the same story of the district administration allowing the communal-fascist mob 's own party goons have also.
to go on a rampage destroying. looting Muslim properties and killing Muslims. In some places, SPparticipated in the attacks. In these latest attacks in Muziafarnagar during the entire period when the several affiliates of the sangh parivar and the Congress were preparing for the rampage, the SP government and the local administration did not take even a single step to sto~ or prevent it. SP had come to power in UP last year with several promises of fighting against .
communal-fascism, ensuring justice to the Muslim community and revoking the false terror cases against Muslim youth. All of .
these pre-poll gimmicks stand nakedly exposed today as the attacks on Muslims have not only continued but in fact increased; .
while the witch-hunting of Muslim youth has also continued unabated. The picture of the tortured body of Shaheed Khalid .
Mujahid while the continual shelving of reports such as that of the Nimesh Commission should be enough to shake any illusions .
(if someone still has any) about the character of the SP. The role of the other political parties in Uttar Pradesh and elsewhere is just as reactionary. While the SSP today is crying in UP, it was the same party which was instrumental in ensuring that BJP MP Yogi.
hoarse about the state of 'lawlessness' .
' across the state. When someAdityanath carried on his hate campaign and the profiling of Azamgarh as a den of 'terroristsdemocratic rights activists had filed a case against Adityanath, it was the then BSP state government which got it quashed. In .
the shadow boxing that is unfolding between various parliamentary parties, the Congress today has crossed all limits of .
ludicrousness. In a statement issued by its spokesperson Manish Tiwari, the Congress has claimed that its government has towards communal violence and has issued an appeal for peace. Such preposterous claims are belied by the.
'zero-tolerance' .
fact that Congress leaders and party goons were themselves involved in these attacks. The history of the Congress since its .
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inception is rinsed with the blood of the minorities. Manish Tiwari would do well to remember that it was his own government that .
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had thrown open the police armoury to the RSSNHP goons when it was butchering Muslims in Gopalgarh in Rajashtan in 2011. The degenerate character of the parliamentary pseudo-left and its inability to fight communal-fascism is borne out by its continual wooing of Mulayam Singh and co. for an alliance in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. CPM's anti-people character is 'exemplified by the fact that it has always considered forces such as the SP (and not the s.truggling people) as an 'integral partof its 'fight' against the government. .
Each and every parliamentary party actively facilitates and reaps electoral dividends out of the attacks on the Muslims and other minorities. As this farce of a democracy prepares for the five yearly drama next year, the chariot ridden with the blood of the oppressed masses has already begun its journey. While on the one hand the butcher and mass rapist of Gujarat .
Nar~ndra Modi is proje~ti~g himself with ~he help of the corporales as the next prospective prime minister, each and every .
parliamentary party cl~smmg to oppose htm has. been involved in the massacre and witch-hunting of Muslims. Gopalgarh. Rudrapur. Dhule, Fatzabad. Pratapgarh. Ghaztabad. Forbesganj. Nawada. Bettiah and now Muzafarnagar prove that .
irrespective of the party in power the colour of the Indian state remains saffron. A united struggle of all the oppressed masses_ .
adivasis. dalits. religious minorities. workers and peasants -for the complete overthrow of this communal-casteist state and .
social order can only lay the foundations ofa new society that will be free from all kinds of oppression and injustice..
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Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi waves at an election rally in Pratapgarh in Uttar Pradesh. While speaking on the occasion he took on the BJP and said that the BJP balloon will burst this time as had happened in 2004 and 2009.
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in birpur village pratapgarh Rajasthan. A meena dominated village celebrates ganesh visarjan - a new phenomenon in the region
Bhusaval (BSL) WAM4#21234Passing Diva Jn with late running Pratapgarh Mumbai LTT Udyog Nagari Expres.
young girls come out in sarees on the special day in birpur village pratapgarh Rajasthan. A meena dominated village celebrating ganesh visarjan - a new phenomenon in the region
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Public Meeting and The Ongoing Saga OfAtrocities On Dalits : Challenges Ahead .
eaker Prof. Gopal Guru cPs. JNu .
caste abuse in Periyar hostel is an eye-opener for those who After nearly 60 years of having a constitution which live under the illusion that casteism is no longer a threat that promises a dream where caste-based discrimination belongs to a distant past, we still witness the most gruesome and needs to be addressed. In this incident, an objection was raised when a dalit .
barbaric incidents of atrocities on dalits. In 2006, an entire student wanted to put up a picture of Dr. Ambedkar in his .
dalit family in Khairlanji was murdered and the women raped. room. The manner in which the hostel administration dealt This incident shockingly took place in full public view, with .
the connivance of hundreds of onlookers. Their only crime with this situation reveals the open reluctance to strongly .
was that they had dared to be educated and break the oppose a casteist mentality. By his own admission, the Chief warden treated this incident as a simple case of a mild .
shackles of an exploitative caste order. Two years later, 6 people have been sentenced to death, and two with life difference of opinion of two roommates over something innocuous. The chief warden openly states that he does not .
imprisonment. The caste dimension of this incident was see a caste dimension in this incident' .
always clearly evident, and yet the guilty were charged under the IPC, and not under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Education is supposed to be about learning and Act. This attempt to sanitize the brutality of its casteist inte-nt internalizing new values. It is the responsibility of a campus .
belies any claim of honestly in dealing with the entrenched to inculcate democratic values in students. In the Periyar hostel case, ideally, the Chief warden should have ·explained.
casteism in society. to the roommate of the dalit student that any opposition to Khairlanji is most unfortunately not an aberration the picture of Dr.Ambedkar reveals a casteist bias. Intolerance or an isolated incident. Caste-based discrimination and to a symbol of dalit assertion is the first step towards caste atrocities are a chilling reality in every part ofthe country. segregation. Such an attitude is plainly unconstitutional, and Just to remember some of the cases reported in 2008 .
should not be entertained at any cost. .
a/one: In a bizarre New Year Eve honour killing, an Indian father set fire to his daughter's home in the USA killing Instead, the Chiefwarden chose to ignore the entrenched .
his pregnant daughter, son-in-law and their three year casteist mindset that this incident revealed. In his own words, old son, because he could not bear the fact that she had he tried to "negotiate", and "mediate" between the students, married a lower caste immigrant. In January, the eye of a by asking the complainant to remove Dr.Ambedkar's portrait,a .
dalit youth in Maharashtra's Nanded district. was gouged suggestion which the warden thinks has "no problem". .
out and acid from a car battery poured into it, simply for Dr. Ambedkar had warned that simply instituting laws is .
eloping with a minor girl belonging to the upper caste not enough to tackle a centuries old exploitative Brahminical .
Marathas. In Jan, a brahmin priest in Kanpur abused caste order. .
and beat up a dalit and his three friends on Tuesday when the latter tried to enter the famous Mahadev "Democracy is not a form of government, but a form of social organization... .[the formal framework of democracy] .
temple to offer prayers. In Feb, the owner of a sweets involves .. .an attitude of mind, and attitude of respect and shop pushed his dalit employee into a large pot of .
equality towards their fellows. '' .
boilinlg oil, resulting in his death, after the man refused .
to work for him in Uttar Pradesh's Etawah district. In Oct, a We are currently seeing an extremely dangerous trend dalit woman committed suicide in front of the Betul in JNU, wherein attempts are being made to convert JNU into .
district Collectorate, when no action was taken the a laboratory for fanning a communal frenzy. Instead, this .
campus should become a platform where democratic secular.
sarpanch's son, who had raped her twice. These are just .
some of the incidents of caste brutalities. and egalitarian values are inculcated. .
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Even in UP, where Mayawati's victory sharpened the Join a public meeting tonight (Sep 26) at 9.30 pm, .
Sutlej mess on " Khairlanji And The Ongoing Saga Of.
aspirations of dalits for democracy and empowerment, dalits .
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continue to bear the brunt of casteist assaults and atrocities. Atrocities On Dalits: Challenges Ahead" to be addressed .
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We have not forgotten how a young dalit student, by Prof. Gopal Guru. .
Chakrasen was murdered in Pratapgarh after he got egar01ng the case ofcaste abuse and victimization ofa dalif studenT .
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admission into an engineering college. in Periyar hostel, JNUSU demands that the Equal Opportunities 'He is fulfilling his jatigat kartavya (caste obligation).' -Office looks into the matter in all its seriousness. Today, the JNUSU .
that's what the President of tJ1e BSP Pratapgarh Unit said 's.
President went to the Periyar hostel office as per yesterday.
when asked about the local Brahmin BSP MLA who had understanding that was reached following the protestdemonstration harboured (in his own home) the killerofChakrasen (reported and collected the necessary documents. .
in Tehelka, 25 August 2007) .
Educational institutions also reveal this entrenched Before the warden came to the office, a studentwho happened to be present used unfair and objection_able language. We strongly casteist mentality. We have seen how SC students in AIIMS .
are subjected to segregation, caste abuse and victimization. disapprove and condemn such behaviour. We also strongly condemn In our own campus, we have seen how casteism is prevalent, the subsequent response ofsome ofthe residents of Periyar hostel abetted not just by some sections of the student community belonging to the ABVP, who gathered and physically forced him out of the hostel..
but also by the JNU administration. The recent incident of .
Md. Mobeen AlamSandeep .
Jt. Secy., JNUSUPresident, JNUSU .
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