17 November 2011
In a desperate attempt to hide their own pro-Lyngdoh agenda, SFI-AISA have been projecting YFE as the single enemy of the progressive students movement. Students of this campus are more than aware of the casteist and reactionary politics of YFE. Since 2008, YFE has unequivocally maintained a pro-Lyngdoh position. In every court hearing, the YFE lawyer has argued in favour of LCR imposition in JNU. It is SFI and AISA that have shed their pretensions and showed us their true colour by bringing in Lyngdoh in the name of relaxations. Over the past few weeks, they have had a series of secret meetings with YFE, a force which was politically defeated by the students through the 2008 UGBM which mandated that it be kept out of the JSC. Now, with their shadow boxing, SFI AISA are trying to give their own pro-Lyngdoh agenda a ‘progressive’ and pro-students colour.
On the issue of holding the JNUSU elections in this very semester, SFI-AISA have taken the student community for a ride and have undermined the JNUSU constitution and all the democratic processes that have evolved through forty years of progressive students struggles. Being true to their politics of opportunism and revisionism, SFI-AISA used lies and deceit to mislead students. In the process, they have consciously weakened students’ three years struggle against the imposition of the draconian Lyngdoh committee recommendations (LCR). In the last UGBM, SFI-AISA, with the support of ABVP and NSUI, passed a resolution which stated that we should initiate the process of holding the JNUSU elections as per the recommendations of Lyngdoh committee with few ‘relaxations’ given by the Amicus Curiae Gopal Subramaniam. These so called relaxations in no way weaken the draconian character of LCR, whose main agenda is to control the organised students politics in campuses in order to facilitate the privatization of higher education and to further fortify the control of brahmanical forces in knowledge production. The ‘relaxations’ SFI-AISA hail as ‘victory’ from the rooftop are nothing but insignificant technical relaxations. The important clauses of Lyngdoh remain intact—the restrictions on public meetings and political debates, the establishment of the Grievance Redressal Cell which not only gives immense power to the Administration to intervene in and control the election process but also turns the very students union as a puppet one at the beck and call of Administration .
Following the last UGBM, the pro-Lyngdoh SFI-AISA initiated the process of holding the JNUSU elections by forming the Election Committee through school GBMs. One month has passed since they hurriedly conducted these GBMs without allowing any debate or discussions. These flagbearers of LCR went to the extent of implementing LCR even before they completely surrendered to and officially invite the LCR. Till date, they are completely silent about what happened to the election process that they initiated and the EC that they formed. According to the JNUSU constitution, the EC should complete the election process within the four weeks of its formation. SFI-AISA have time and again undermined democratic processes and the JNUSU constitution. On the 20th September, when they realised that majority of the students are against their design to bring Lyngdoh in this campus, SFI-AISA in a highly undemocratic manner tried to stop an ongoing UGBM. Undermining the mandate of this UGBM, which rejected the LCR in to-to, these pro-Lyngdoh forces along with other right wing organisations went running to get some ‘relaxations’ from the Amicus Curiae.
Pro-Lyngdoh SFI-AISA simply lied to the student community about ‘negotiations’ and ‘relaxations’ in order to pass their resolution in the last UGBM. The Amicus Curiae has never even given any commitment to argue in favour of these so called relaxations. In the last two hearings in the Supreme Court, Gopal Subramanium presented to the judges the opinions of both YFE, which wants imposition of LCR in to-to, and of the SFI-AISA-ABVP-NSUI which want LCR with few ‘relaxations’. We know very well that there is not much difference between SFI-AISA and YFE position. Through their deceitful touting of the relaxations as pro-students, SFI-AISA are trying to mislead students. But this nefarious agenda must and will be defeated by the progressive students of JNU. We must unite in our efforts to carry forward the struggle against Lyngdoh, privatization of higher education and the brahmanical and casteist forces.
On the issue of holding the JNUSU elections in this very semester, SFI-AISA have taken the student community for a ride and have undermined the JNUSU constitution and all the democratic processes that have evolved through forty years of progressive students struggles. Being true to their politics of opportunism and revisionism, SFI-AISA used lies and deceit to mislead students. In the process, they have consciously weakened students’ three years struggle against the imposition of the draconian Lyngdoh committee recommendations (LCR). In the last UGBM, SFI-AISA, with the support of ABVP and NSUI, passed a resolution which stated that we should initiate the process of holding the JNUSU elections as per the recommendations of Lyngdoh committee with few ‘relaxations’ given by the Amicus Curiae Gopal Subramaniam. These so called relaxations in no way weaken the draconian character of LCR, whose main agenda is to control the organised students politics in campuses in order to facilitate the privatization of higher education and to further fortify the control of brahmanical forces in knowledge production. The ‘relaxations’ SFI-AISA hail as ‘victory’ from the rooftop are nothing but insignificant technical relaxations. The important clauses of Lyngdoh remain intact—the restrictions on public meetings and political debates, the establishment of the Grievance Redressal Cell which not only gives immense power to the Administration to intervene in and control the election process but also turns the very students union as a puppet one at the beck and call of Administration .
Following the last UGBM, the pro-Lyngdoh SFI-AISA initiated the process of holding the JNUSU elections by forming the Election Committee through school GBMs. One month has passed since they hurriedly conducted these GBMs without allowing any debate or discussions. These flagbearers of LCR went to the extent of implementing LCR even before they completely surrendered to and officially invite the LCR. Till date, they are completely silent about what happened to the election process that they initiated and the EC that they formed. According to the JNUSU constitution, the EC should complete the election process within the four weeks of its formation. SFI-AISA have time and again undermined democratic processes and the JNUSU constitution. On the 20th September, when they realised that majority of the students are against their design to bring Lyngdoh in this campus, SFI-AISA in a highly undemocratic manner tried to stop an ongoing UGBM. Undermining the mandate of this UGBM, which rejected the LCR in to-to, these pro-Lyngdoh forces along with other right wing organisations went running to get some ‘relaxations’ from the Amicus Curiae.
Pro-Lyngdoh SFI-AISA simply lied to the student community about ‘negotiations’ and ‘relaxations’ in order to pass their resolution in the last UGBM. The Amicus Curiae has never even given any commitment to argue in favour of these so called relaxations. In the last two hearings in the Supreme Court, Gopal Subramanium presented to the judges the opinions of both YFE, which wants imposition of LCR in to-to, and of the SFI-AISA-ABVP-NSUI which want LCR with few ‘relaxations’. We know very well that there is not much difference between SFI-AISA and YFE position. Through their deceitful touting of the relaxations as pro-students, SFI-AISA are trying to mislead students. But this nefarious agenda must and will be defeated by the progressive students of JNU. We must unite in our efforts to carry forward the struggle against Lyngdoh, privatization of higher education and the brahmanical and casteist forces.
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