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Braving Roadblocks, Defeating Cynicism, ThG Quest For A Socially-Inclusive JNU Is Bound To March OnII .

over the past two weeks, we have seen a determined struggle for a socially just campus, for democratisation of '.

education in JNU and for administrative neutrality. The relay hunger strike, that lasted 11 days and saw the participation of more than 100 students, finally forced a reluctant administration to concede to many ofJNUSU's key demands. There If .

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was however another striking feature of the agitation -SFI's token presence, which ofcourse the campus has gotused to by now. SFI resorts to toke.nis~ even when it supposedly leads an agitation: and this was ofcourse, as th~y have freely 1\o.

admitted, a JNUSU-Ied ag1tat1on. Throughout the two-week long campa1gn, the SFI made no attempt to mobilise .

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students-no mess campaigns, no room-to-room campaigns, no pamphlets, no posters. Theircouncillors Inthe .

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Union, as well as their leadership, could not even mobilise themselves to attend the two programmes that .

JNUSU had during the hun~erstrike, forget about mobilising others. On one night, they did not even offer a single nen\ representative either from their organisation, or from JNUSU to participate in the hunger strike. All this amounts to .

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nothing but a consciously calibrated tokenism to weaken the movement as much as possible. SFI's excuse for their poor participation was "academic pressure". We would like to tell the SFI: Academic .

pressure is, unfortunately for you, not divided on party lines. Hundreds of students, in spite of their exams, .

though it important to participate in an agitation ofsuch significance forthe future ofJNU. It is unfortunatethat isoc;\al .

you did not. You are insulting your own slogan of"study and struggle" by giving such excuses! .

To hide their poor participation and token presence, the SFI has resorted to undermine the significance of the .

demands that the administration has conceded to. They have asked "some questions on the JNUSU-led agitationnwhich .

they apparently did not ask at the many fora that the agitation provided -JNUSU council meetings, all-organisation .

meetings and protest demonstrations-for the sake of''unity" ofthe movement. We would like to ask the SFI: where was .

your concern for unity when your leaders and your councillors in JNUSU used every available platform to actively staJI .

JNUSU's plans to escalate the momentum ofthe agitation by going in for an indefinite hungerstrike? Why was itthat you rnbed~ar's did not raise these concerns, if you indeed thought they were genuine. at the very first JNUSU council meeting (13thApril) .

lllntlfrOCI' when the agenda and perspective ofthe agitation was set out? Ifanything, SFI pretended to support the perspective ofthe ~~ movement in toto. It is another matter that SFI probably does not think democratic decision-making and seeking to .

establish unity of opinion is important, if the way their councillors went about their "agitation" is anything to go by! meland'*Jtitnt.""It .

Coming to the "questions" that the SFI has raised: to begin with, the SFI has introduced a hierarchy in JNUSU's .

demands using words like "central and foremost", "relegated to the background" and the like. By using such phrases, the E'san\l-quota SFI has shown that it has completely failed to understand the thrust and spirit of the movement, which was \n seats·At\t\8 articulated right from the beginning of the agitation. "Central and foremost" to the agitation was not one single 1.1heJNUSU'' demand, but a vision of a socially just and inclusive, gender sensitive, democratic, and secular campus, and ;cornrnuna\ and .

all the demands related to reservation, recognition of Madarsa certificates, UGC fellowships, the question of aRe\IY ttUnger the biased Proctorial Board, rights and facilities for PH students, fee waivers for Third World students, or a ant rn~-·r«.tbetter health centre, were means towards that common end. This agitation carried forward the legacy of the nd f:J/JS uPon JNU movement for deprivation points in JNU. .

Implementation of 27% OBC reservation: SFI has asked the JNUSU office bearers if OBC reservations would be unftl to.

implemented in JNU because ofthe current agitation, given that the JNU administration has already agreed to implement .

OBC reservations atone go, and given a favourable Supreme Court judgement. SFI would do well to understand that strtngth'" .

policy, needs mass mobilisation and a sustained student movement for its effective implementation, without ,.srutglt.

every progressive step towards a socially justcampus, and towards a socially inclusive and secularadmlaalon for .

orwithout favourable legislations. "Premier" institutions like IITs and IIMs will not be implementing 27% reservations · soclaiJustlct .

without staggering this year, in spite ofthe Supreme Court verdict. On our own campus, casteist organisations like YFE .

and are right now distributing black badges in protest and spreading misinformation regarding the Supreme Court verdict. All seet~tarlllll kinds of snags are possible: cut-off marks, pleas of lack of Infrastructure, and many others. Given this openly casteist JNU and hostile atmosphere, where right-wing forces will try their level best to stall implementation of reservations, It is .

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tions and promises on paper are translated on the ground. There can be no let-up In vigilance and mobilisation forincumbent upon us to continuously put pressure on an insensitive and reluctant administration to ensure than legisla-.

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ensuring Implementation of progressive policies. The SFI should understand and lntemallse thla, IfItIa at all serious about ensuring reservations. .

However, we know from past experience that SFI is least interested in ensuring reservations for OBCs. They havea long and shameful track record of reneging on the issue. During the first phase of Mandai Commission in 1990, SFI .

abstained from voting on the JNUSU resolution floated bythe then JNUSU President (notfrom SFI), whereby·the pro-Mandai .

resolution was defeated in the UGBM. As a result the then JNUSU who supported the MandaiCommission in toto, r.f.to .

resign. Again, justtwo years back, during Mandai II (2006), when YFE was running a maliciously caatelst campaign on .

this campus, with hunger strikesand slanderous pamphlets, SFI was nowhere In tl}e picture. ItwasAISAthat foWbt-a .

YFE tooth and nail, through posters and pamphlets and on the streets through a 34-day long hungerstrike,.

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