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SFI pamphlet Dated 6th September, '07

JNUSU Pamphlet dated 5th Sept, '07

05-09-07

9 girl students of Sanskrit Centre have submitted a written complaint to the VC against the Chairperson of the Centre accusing him of sexual harassment. JNUSU is committed to ensure a gender sensitive campus, such acts being completely unacceptable. We demand that the GSCASH must immediately start enquiry into the allegations and strict action be taken against the guilty.

OUR STRUGGLE FOR SCHOLARSHIPS LONG LIVE!!

Friends,

This is to inform the student community that disbursement of the scholarships for M.Phil/PhD students worth Rs 3000 and Rs 5000 per month respectively has been started by the Administration. Office orders in this regard are being sent to the respective centres, in the name of individual students who are receiving no scholarships. All the students who have applied for the scholarship will receive the office order by the end of this week. We appeal to the students to contact their respective centres to get a copy of the office order and fill up the claim forms to get the scholarships.

While it is a result of the consistent pressure of the student community that the Administration has started the process of disbursal of scholarships, the cut off date has been fixed at April 2007. The JNUSU has consistently demanded that the cut off date for the scholarships should be July 2005. It is unfortunate that the Administration is not honoring its own commitment on 12th July 2007 to disburse scholarships with effect from July 2005. In today’s Council Meeting the JNUSU will decide on a future course of action to pressurize the Administration to disburse the scholarships from July 2005.

At the same time, the Administration after the agitation during the summer vacations had agreed to increase the amount of MCM for BA/MA/MSc/MCA students to Rs 1500 and increase the income cap to Rs 1 lakh. Till date the Administration has taken no concrete step to implement its own commitment. We demand that the Administration must immediately call for an Academic Council meeting to ratify the increased amount of MCM as well as the income cap for the eligibility for MCM scholarships.

We appeal to the student community to rally behind the JNUSU in future struggles for more scholarships.

Sd/-Dhananjay, President, JNUSU.

SFI pamphlet dated 5th Sept, '07

Date: 05-09-07

9 girl students of Sanskrit Centre have submitted a written complaint to the JNU VC against the Chairperson alleging him of sexual harassment. This is a very serious allegation. Such acts should not be tolerated in JNU. The GSCASH should immediately enquire into the allegations and strict action must be taken against the guilty.

OUR STRUGGLE FOR FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE LONG LIVE!!

Friends,

We congratulate the student community for successfully pressurizing the Administration for starting the disbursal of scholarships for MPhil/PhD students worth Rs 3000 and Rs 5000 per month. The JNUSU under the leadership of SFI-AISF has been at the forefront of the struggles to ensure more scholarships for students and increasing the amount of MCM. While the starting of the process of disbursal of scholarships for MPhil/PhD students is welcome, it is unfortunate that the Administration has fixed the cut off date at April 2007. The JNUSU has been consistently demanding that the scholarships must be disbursed with effect from July 2007. SFI appeals to the JNUSU to formulate a proper course of action in tonight’s Council Meeting to pressurize the Administration to disburse the scholarships from July 2005. At the same time, the Administration has taken no step to implement its own decision of increasing the MCM for BA/MA/MSc/MCA students to Rs 1500 and increase the income cap for MCM to Rs 1 lakh. The Council should also deliberate on this matter.

It is unfortunate that the Convenors for different schools and committees have not been elected as yet, while we have reached the fag end of the tenure of this JNUSU. This state of affairs is a result of the JNUSU General Secretary’s refusal for the entire last semester to call for Council Meeting until he was given a written requisition on behalf of the councillors of SFI-AISF. The Youth For (In) Equality in the most undemocratic manner boycotted whatever Council Meeting that took place thereby not allowing any formal Council Meeting to take place. The JNUSU General Secretary as well as the YFE owe an explanation to the student community for not allowing a formal Council Meeting to take place, thereby not allowing the election of Convenors of different schools.

Sd/- Rajiv Kumar Ranjan, Secretary, SFI-JNU.

Sd/- Roshan Kishore, President, SFI-JNU.

SFI's "An Evening Against Imperialism" on 6th Sept, ' 07

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SFI Pamphlet dated 2nd Sept, '07

02-09-07

INDO-US NUCLEAR DEAL: EXPOSE THE HYPOCRISY OF THE RSS-BJP-ABVP!!

Friends,

The Left parties have strongly opposed the Indo-US nuclear deal and asked the UPA Government not to proceed further. This deal has little to do with the interests of India or the Indian people. It is not a stand-alone agreement, but part of a wider strategic alliance to make India the outpost of American interests in Asia. Other agreements with the US have also been reached by the Government on defence, on agriculture, on industry, which will have wide reaching negative implications on the lives of the Indian people. Already the foreign policy of the Government is under pressure because of the strategic alliance with America. It is a result of the opposition of the Left that the Government has been forced to constitute a committee to look into the Left's objections and examine the implications of Hyde Act which has been passed by the US Government. To that extent the Government has agreed that it will not immediately go to the next step of approaching the IAEA for safeguards agreement.

It is in this context that the ABVP in campus, finding itself and the RSS-BJP to be completely sidelined by the opposition of the Left to the Indo-US nuclear deal, have brought out a pamphlet full of lies against the Left. At the very outset it needs to be noted that the opposition of the RSS-BJP to the Indo-US nuclear deal is completely hypocritical. It should not be forgotten that the NDA regime under the leadership of the RSS-BJP was the most pro-US government that the country had ever seen. While the nuclear deal is the expression of a fresh tactical approach on the question of Indo-US nuclear relations by the UPA government, as compared to its predecessor, there is nevertheless a basic strategic continuity with the nuclear policy that was inaugurated by the NDA government following the nuclear weapons tests of 1998.

With the 1998 test, the NDA government announced India’s readiness to accede to the global non-proliferation order presided over by the United States provided India was accommodated as a nuclear weapons state. In particular, Vajpayee declared his government’s willingness to sign the CTBT and co-operate in the negotiations for a Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty. It was clear that any attempt to deal with the diplomatic and foreign policy fallout of the nuclear weapons tests, while trying to retain even a fig-leaf of ‘nuclear weapons state’ status, would involve substantial concessions to the United States in foreign policy terms. It also soon became clear that this was a price that the NDA government was more than willing to pay.

After conducting the nuclear tests at Pokhran in May 1998, the BJP-led government entered into prolonged secret negotiations with the US. Following the visit of US President Clinton to India in March 2000, the BJP-RSS combine felt that it had achieved its cherished goal of getting the US to accept India as its ‘natural ally’ and not Pakistan. The urge to be a subordinate ally of the US prompted the NDA Government to become the first government anywhere in the world to welcome the National Missile Defense programme announced by George Bush. In the ftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the US, the BJP-led Government offered to be a partner in Bush’s “war against terrorism” and place India’s military facilities at its disposal. The NDA Government also went to the extent of planning to send Indian troops to Iraq during the US-led invasion but was eventually prevented due to the groundswell of public opinion in India. In its desperation to woo their bosses in the USA, LK Advani went to visit the CIA headquarters. The Indian Government did not even protest against the atrocious act of US security agencies, when the Indian Defence Minister George Fernandes was strip searched in the USA. Is this the brand of patriotism that the ABVP wants the campus to believe? The NDA left all pretensions of leading the Non-Aligned Movement and abandoned our age old support to the Palestine cause while buying weapons from Israel. These agents of US imperialism have no concern for the sovereignty of India. Basically the BJP is 'hurt' by the fact that they could not strike this deal with the US. One remembers the childhood fable of sour grapes, looking at the positions of BJP.

The ABVP should remember that the NDA Government was routed from power because of a mandate of the people against the communal politics of RSS-BJP and its proclivity to US imperialism and ruthless pursuance of neo-liberalism. In their greed for power to earn dollars, through multiple corruptions, like Bangaru Laxman in the Tehelka expose, they are desperate to see the UPA government voted out in Parliament. This is not surprising since during the NDA regime, the entire period was tainted with scams, be it the Tehelka expose, coffin scam, petrol pump scam, stamp scam etc. Very recently one of their MPs was caught red handed in a case of woman trafficking and again some of their MPs were caught taking money to raise questions in Parliament. One needs no lessons in patriotism or morality from political forces who are willing to sell off the nation to earn money. As far as the issue of withdrawing support is concerned, who are the fascistic RSS-BJP-ABVP to advise the Left in this regard when it was the opposition to their communal and pro-imperialist policies that resulted in the formation of UPA and the Left's support to it from outside? The Left needs no counsel from them since we are aware of the fact that the BJP will be more than willing to act as junior partners of US imperialism, since they are a pro-imperialist party. We appeal to the student community to isolate the pro-imperialist and communal politics of ABVP and rally behind the Left in opposing the Indo-US nuclear deal, upholding our sovereignty and independent foreign policy.

Sd/- Rajiv Kumar Ranjan, Secretary, SFI-JNU; Sd/-Roshan Kishore, President, SFI-JNU.

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