STUDENT
COMMUNITY MUST FIGHT AGAINST LYNGDOH AND UPHOLD THE JNUSU CONSTITUTION!
It is ridiculous to be blind
about the hunter and asking who killed the bird. The same can be applied in the
case of recent events in the campus. One overlooks the present socio-economic
order while explaining the incidents in the campus whether it is the case of
violent attack against a female student, whether it is the caste discrimination
against students belonging to backward and lower castes, or excessive charges
and fines against the students by hostel warden, the recent draconian circular
against protests of all kind. The re-colonisation of India has
changed the whole scenario within the campus too. While the campus was much
more politically active without elections too, these elections under the
Lyngdoh’s regime the campus have increasingly become
depoliticized. While capitalist forces have continued their
witch-hunting of workers’ movement, we have seen in the case of Maruti workers
who were fired by the management for protesting against their exploitation,
their right to form the unions is under attack, and the latest interest has
been in the destroying ‘organized student’s movements’.It was inevitable as
India signed WTO agreements in 1995 and thus began the process of ‘re-colonization’ whereby
imperial forces were allowed to loot the natural resources, destroy the working
class movement, through Multi-national institutions i.e. world bank in the name
of ‘development and growth’, It has also initiated conspiracy against
the politically active universities for which the Birla-Ambani Report argues
for “obedient” students who should just go to classes, must be apolitical,
score good marks and serve the capitalists’ interests. The JNU administration
is working under these regimes of neoliberalism and imperialism. Since the
Lyngdoh has been garlanded and embraced shamelessly by the ruling organizations
in the campus in the guise of “interim measure”, student community has
witnessed stark differences in the language of JNUSU.JNU Administration has
shown its true face in the case of setting up JNU Press, where no information
was shared with JNUSU, and no student representation has been allowed in the
management of JNU press. We protest against any collaboration of JNU press with
corporate publishers i.e. Cambridge University Press, Oxford Univ. Press or
Taylor and Francis etc. It is these corporate publishers who have denied the
availability of photocopy of the books (although the photocopy is allowed for
educational purposes under Indian copyright Act 1957) under the regimes of
‘monopoly publishing’. The case is pending in the high court. In the last
elections, during the presidential speech when one candidate raised our issue
of food fascism, the same EC sanctioned it, calling the word “beef” as
non-parliamentary. The same GRC (Grievance Redressal Cell) issued show cause
notice to presidential candidate for using that so called un parliamentary
word. And during the mobilizations against the imposition of Brahmanical food
habits, the Procter issued show cause notice to one member of our organization,
rusticated another member. Similarly, in the recent JNUSU elections, students
who were raising question of the role of Election commission was asked by these
ruling organizations as “why are you contesting elections when you don’t
believe in Lyngdoh elections” (mark the words, which exposes their “increasing
faith in Lyngdoh elections”. Why JNUSU can’t lead the fight against
the Lyngdoh?- when the present JNUSU has been formed under the Lyngdoh
guidelines’ based elections, it is impossible for the same Union to fight
against the privatization and neoliberal assaults on the student
community. Now JNUSU has been transformed (or degenerated) into a
“negotiating body/managing body” from an union for leading struggles and
fighting against the administration’s dictats. Thus, when these
organizations have accepted the “Lyngdoh Committee’s mantras”, what are we
expecting from them?
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