JNUSU Protest Demo against non-implementation of agreement by Admn:

• Give Registration to Rusticated Students without Delay!
• Implement the Agreement with JNUSU Immediately!
• Withdraw Fines on Office-Bearers Unconditionally!

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PROTEST DEMO

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SFI-AISF

Protest Demo at Andhra Bhavan

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Against

Killing of 8 Left Activists in Police Firing in A.P.

At Andhra Bhavan
30th July, 2007 (Monday)

Assemble at Ganga Dhaba at 9.30 AM

SFI release on AP Police Firing

Eight Left Activists Killed In Police Firing In Andhra

Dated: 28.07.07

Friends,

Students’ Federation of India strongly condemns the killing of eight persons in police firing in Mudigonda, near Khammam in Andhra Pradesh. The dead included a student and a woman. The police resorted to brutal firing on people participating in a peaceful RASTA ROKO as part of the bandh to protest police repression and the refusal of the government to concede their genuine demands. The CPI(M), CPI and 195 mass organisations have been conducting a peaceful movement for house sites and land for the poor, since May 2, 2007. The struggle entered a new phase on July 22 with the indefinite hunger strike launched by leaders of the CPI(M) and CPI. Instead of discussing and settling the issues, the Congress government in Andhra Pradesh resorted to brutal attacks against the people. Hundreds of people were seriously injured in police lathicharges in different parts of the state and thousands were sent to jail. Leaders including B.V. Raghavulu, Member of the CPI(M) Polit Bureau, P Madhu, Member of the CPI(M) Central Committee and K Narayana, Secretary of the Andhra Pradesh State Council of the CPI who were on indefinite hunger strike were forcibly arrested at midnight on Friday. The genuine demands of the people for house sites and land cannot be suppressed by such brutal display of force. The SFI urges upon the government of Andhra Pradesh to immediately concede all genuine demands. The SFI also demands firm action against the police officers responsible for the firing and payment of adequate compensation to those killed.

For the last three months poor peasants, landless agricultural workers, homeless urban poor people are waging a struggle in Andhra Pradesh demanding the state government to implement the 9/77 act which guarantees land assignment to the poor. Instead of taking steps to implement this act government brought an amendment which nullifies the spirit of the Land Assignment Act, 1977 and paves way to legalise all illegal occupations by the land mafia and influential classes in the state. This act only meant for legalising the illegal occupations of assigned land, snatching away the assigned land from the hands of poor and to reallocate the same to the influential sections of the society. At the same time lakhs of people are waiting in queue for almost one decade to get their piece of land to construct their homes. Government's only refrain is that there is no such vacant land which could be given to common masses for such purpose. At the same time the committee appointed by state government under the chairmanship of Koneru Rangarao, Cabinet Minister, found huge tracts of land ( more than 60 lakh acres) available with the government right now with which state as on date. Fearing worst consequences, the government has refused to make Koneru Rangarao Committee Report public. It is not even ready to table the report on the floor of state assembly.

In this background a ground swelling movement is going on demanding the state government to implement the recommendations of Koneru Rangarao Committee. 195 grassroot organisations including NGOs cutting across political and ideological affiliations have joined hands in support of this demand. Of late major political parties in the state have also extended their solidarity. The ongoing struggle reached its peak with the Hunger fast movement where the leaders of CPI(M) and CPI sitting on fast. Thousands of hunger fast tents have already been erected in the state where laks of common people are sitting on hunger strike in support of demands. Instead of agreeing to the genuine demands of the vast sections of people, state government has sought to repress the movement. More than three thousand cases were registered against the leaders of the movement. Thousands were sent to jail with non bailable warrants. Severe lathi charge has become a daily phenomenon where thousands are bearing the brunt of police. There is a en-mass moral support to this movement including those of upper middle class who could not find land to build their homes.

The Police in Andhra Pradesh let loose terror on Thursday against the poor agitating for house sites. Thousands and thousands of poor people, including a large number of women, picketed the district collectarates on Thursday throughout the state at the call given by the CPI(M) and CPI. Police resorted to severe lathi charge and used teargas shells, water cannons, mounted police in almost all district headquarters and arrested the agitators and the leaders of CPI(M) and CPI. In the state capital Hyderabad, the police action reminded the day when three people were killed by the police bullets seven years ago, when they were agitating against the hike in power tariff by the then TDP government. Yesterday, when poor people picketed Hyderabad district collectorate, the police used all sorts of force except firing. Many people received serious blood injuries and were to be taken to Osmania general hospital for treatment. The situation was same in almost all the district headquarters. Many women received blows from the police in their abdomen. Many of them got fainted due to the lathi blows. In solidarity with the huger-fast comrades and protesting against the police atrocities people observed State Bandh today, 28th July in which the police fired on the peaceful protesters in which 8 left activists were killed. SFI appeals to the student community to unite against the police firing on poor people and left activists and come out in support of the just demands of the people of the state.

- an SFI release

SFI pamphlet on the Protest March on 28th July

SFI-AISF

Allow the Rusticated Students and JNUSU Office Bearers to Register Immediately!

Date: 28/07/07

Friends,
More than 15 days have passed since the JNU administration entered into an agreement with the JNUSU and agreed to enable all the concerned (rusticated) students to take registration by the 14th of August on the basis of them submitting written appeals. However, even after getting appeals from all the rusticated students the administration has not initiated the process of giving registration to them. Even their rooms continue to be double locked till now. Registration of JNUSU office-bearers are also blocked which is nothing but a move towards betrayal of its own agreement with the JNUSU. JNUSU President has submitted a letter to the Vice-Chancellor demanding that their registration process be immediately initiated and the unjust fines imposed on office-bearers should be revoked. In this context, the unilateral decision of JNUSU Gen. Secy who is from AISA to submit an appeal to the administration, and that too by keeping the entire student community in dark, is an unacceptable act. This meek surrender of JNUSU Gen. Secy. before the administration is only strengthening the authoritarian character of the later.

The SFI-AISF would also appeal to the student community to isolate reactionary forces like YFE who have always been the stooges of administration. In their last pamphlet, the YFE has once again shown its true colours by attacking the JNUSU and siding with the punishment of students given by the administration. YFE has the track record of not mobilising students against administration and the reality is that it only feels motivated when there is an opportunity to spit venom against the deprived communities and attack the socially sensitive character of our university.

SFI-AISF appeals to the student community to join the protest march of JNUSU demonstrating rock solid student unity against the authoritarian JNU administration. If the students forced the administration to concede defeat in the midst of vacations, administration must realise that any dilly dally approach in this regard would only invite a bigger wrath of students.

JOIN JNUSU’S PROTEST MARCH

DEMANDING IMPLEMENTATION OF THE JNUSU’S AGREEMENT WITH THE ADMINISTRATION

GANGA DHABA 9 PM 28/07/07 (TONIGHT)

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

Sd/- Sanjay Kumar, Secretary, AISF-JNU.

SFI pamphlet of AP Police Firing

STUDENTS’ FEDERATION OF INDIA
Date: 29/07/07

Come and see the blood in the streets!
Let their sacrifices not go in vain.

They are not fallen trees, they are sprouting seeds….. the harbingers of hope.

Friends,
Students’ Federation of India strongly condemns the killing of eight persons in police firing in Mudigonda, near Khammam in Andhra Pradesh. The dead included a student and a woman. The police resorted to brutal firing on people participating in a peaceful RASTA ROKO as part of the bandh to protest police repression and the refusal of the government to concede their genuine demands. The CPI(M), CPI and 195 mass organisations have been conducting a peaceful movement for house sites and land for the poor, since May 2, 2007. The struggle entered a new phase on July 22 with the indefinite hunger strike launched by leaders of the CPI(M) and CPI. Instead of discussing and settling the issues, the Congress government in Andhra Pradesh resorted to brutal attacks against the people. Hundreds of people were seriously injured in police lathicharges in different parts of the state and thousands were sent to jail. Leaders including B.V. Raghavulu, Member of the CPI(M) Polit Bureau, P Madhu, Member of the CPI(M) Central Committee and K Narayana, Secretary of the Andhra Pradesh State Council of the CPI who were on indefinite hunger strike were forcibly arrested at midnight on Friday. The genuine demands of the people for house sites and land cannot be suppressed by such brutal display of force. The SFI demands that the government of Andhra Pradesh immediately concede to all the genuine demands. The SFI also demands firm action against the police officers responsible for the firing and payment of adequate compensation to those killed.

JOIN PROTEST DEMONSTRATION

AGAINST THE KILLER CONGRESS GOVERNMENT

ANDHRA BHAWAN 30/07/07(Tomorrow)

ASSEMBLE AT GANGA DHABA AT 9:30 AM

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

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

JNUSU Protest March

Join JNUSU’S PROTEST MARCH

• Revoke the Rustication Orders against the concerned students.
• Enable them to get complete Registration formalities.
• Unconditionally withdraw the unjust fines imposed on the JNUSU Office-Bearers.
• Fully Honour the agreement with the JNUSU in letter and spirit.
  
  

28/07/07 (Saturday) - Ganga Dhaba - 9 pm

SFI-AISF Pamphlet

RALLY BEHIND THE JNUSU TO UPHOLD ITS SANCTITY AND PRESTIGE!
EXPOSE THE HYPOCRISY AND SURRENDER BY THE ULTRA-LEFT!!
July 25, 2007

Dear Friends,

The pamphlet issued by AISA yesterday was yet another instance of their hypocrisy on the one hand and their failure to uphold the sanctity and prestige of the JNUSU on the other. AISA has made three claims in its pamphlet: (i) The JNUSU office-bearers from the SFI-AISF are violating UGBM resolutions regarding the incident on 19th February; (ii) The refusal of the JNUSU office-bearers from the SFI-AISF to submit letters of regret violates the agreement signed between the JNUSU and the administration and (iii) SFI-AISF is trying to break students’ unity. Each one of these arguments is fallacious and sinister.

Who is violating UGBM Resolutions?

The UGBM held on 8th March 2007 was held in the backdrop of the JNUSU Council meeting expressing regret for the 19th February incident (the AISA representatives abstained on voting in the Council). Following the Council meeting, the JNUSU office-bearers along with some other students who were suspended, had already expressed regret on the lines of the JNUSU Council resolution. It was the DSU which defied the Council Resolution and refused to express regret. The UGBM endorsed the JNUSU Council Resolution expressing regret on the 19th February incident and rejected the DSU line of not expressing regret. It further resolved that upon expression of regret there should be no disciplinary action on any student and therefore no Proctorial enquiry into the matter. The JNUSU President communicated the UGBM resolution to the administration the very next day and the Proctorial Enquiry was boycotted by the JNUSU. Nobody from the SFI-AISF ever went to depose before the Proctorial enquiry. However, the submission of regret letters by the suspended students of DSU following the UGBM, was not in keeping with the JNUSU resolution: they regretted the “inconvenience caused, if any”. That was a violation of the UGBM resolution by the DSU.

It was in keeping with the UGBM resolution that the JNUSU launched an agitation against the rustication of 8 students and fine imposed upon the office-bearers, under the leadership of the JNUSU President from SFI-AISF. When the Administration agreed to reconsider the punishment on the basis of an appeal expressing regret, the JNUSU office-bearers from SFI-AISF categorically refused to submit any appeal once again. It was the AISA and the General Secretary of the JNUSU who were more than willing to submit regret letters, disregarding the letter and spirit of the UGBM resolution. Since SFI-AISF understands the concerns of the rusticated students, whose student life is at stake, it did not oppose an agreement with the administration on this basis. However, submission of any regret letter by the JNUSU office-bearers was categorically opposed by the SFI-AISF because the UGBM never mandated the JNUSU office-bearers to express regret on an individual basis. The minutes of the JNUSU Council and all-organization meetings held at the administrative block before signing the agreement with the administration would clearly show the various positions in that debate. JNUSU office-bearers had already expressed regret on the lines of the JNUSU Council resolution even before the UGBM was held! Therefore, it is the General Secretary of the JNUSU from the AISA who owes an explanation to the student community for submitting another regret letter! Did the General Secretary of the JNUSU seek the opinion of the student community before submitting another regret letter? Afraid of confronting the administration any more, even on legitimate grounds, the General Secretary of the JNUSU has meekly surrendered before the administration. Now, in order to justify his act of cowardice and opportunism, the AISA is leveling baseless charges against the SFI-AISF of violating UGBM resolution. Let the AISA mention one resolution passed in the UGBM which mandates the JNUSU office-bearers to submit another regret letter.

Where is the Breach of the Agreement?

The AISA has correctly pointed out that the agreement with the administration states: “The Vice chancellor has agreed to reconsider the punishment based on the Proctorial decision with regard to the incident that took place on 19th February 2007 on receiving individual letters of regret with an appeal from concerned students to enable them to register by 14th August 2007”. However, that JNUSU office-bearers have to make an appeal for seeking registration by 14th August 2007 is indeed a strange interpretation of the agreement on AISA’s part because the JNUSU office-bearers have not been denied registration in the first place; they have only been fined. This agreement is only meant for those students who have been rusticated and hence denied registration. The SFI-AISF sticks to the position that the fines levied on the JNUSU office-bearers, on the basis of the charge that they were ‘unable to control the situation’, should be revoked unconditionally. The SFI-AISF would have liked to see all the punishments revoked unconditionally in keeping with the UGBM resolution. However, since the rusticated students had agreed to make an appeal to the administration expressing regret once again, the SFI-AISF did not want to stand in the way of the revocation of their rustication. However, if anybody has breached the agreement, in the sense of going overboard in placating the administration, it is the General Secretary of the JNUSU, because the administration has never demanded any regret by the JNUSU office-bearers in the first place. In fact the SFI-AISF is shocked and dismayed by this supine attitude displayed by the General Secretary who is trying to bend backwards to appease the administration. Would he have the backbone to face the administration ever again and fight against anti-student moves? We doubt it strongly. It is indeed shameful for the AISA to have allowed the General Secretary to submit a regret letter and then accusing the SFI-AISF of trying to be “good boys” before the administration. This is a classic case of hypocrisy.

Who is Disrupting Student Unity?

AISA has accused the SFI-AISF of disrupting the unity of the students. This is in keeping with their unethical and immoral politics. The JNUSU President is yet to recover from the after-effects of the arduous indefinite hunger strike that he led from the front against the punishment of the students and the students’ charter of demands. The entire university was witness to the steadfast commitment of the SFI-AISF activists to student unity when they worked tirelessly during the difficult agitation in order to make it a success. How easily the AISA glosses over these facts for sectarian ends. We want to ask some simple questions to the AISA. Do they genuinely regret the incident of 19th February? If so, who do they hold responsible for it? As far as the JNUSU office-bearers from the SFI-AISF are concerned, they did not participate in the gherao of the Registrar, but could not prevent it from happening. They have already offered regret for that. But some students did tie a rope around the car of the Registrar, some deflated the tyres, some smeared black paint on the car and one student climbed on the top of the car and shouted slogans. Who were they? Was there a “collective” decision of the JNUSU or the UGBM to indulge in all these acts? AISA should either categorically deny their role on 19th February (which we know they can’t because they issued a pamphlet celebrating the ‘gherao’) or accept responsibility for the same. If the AISA’s parameters for expressing solidarity with workers’ rights or upholding student unity imply lying to the student community or justifying these adventurist acts, we are sorry we cannot pass the test. The Proctorial enquiry has nothing to do with this: the JNUSU has already rejected the punishments based on the Proctorial enquiry and fought to reverse them. However, AISA should not suffer from the illusion that they can obfuscate their adventurist role on 19th February before the student community, riding piggy back upon the successful agitation led by the JNUSU. The students of JNU would expect them not to repeat such stupid feats in future, which discredit the JNU student movement. The sanctity and prestige of the JNUSU is supreme, since it embodies the collective spirit of the JNU student community. The JNUSU office-bearers from the SFI-AISF would not submit any more appeal expressing regret. SFI-AISF demands that their fines be revoked unconditionally. If AISA does not support this position, let them at least not come in the way. Any effort on their part to collude with the administration against the SFI-AISF would not be forgiven by the student community.

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

Sd/- Fauzan Abrar, Jt. Secy., AISF-JNU.