Youth for Equality, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Pamphlet 27 October 2009

2009-10-28T09:34:00.001+05:30

Greed for power of the Communists hijacked JNU Student Union Election for two consecutive years in a row! Today, the Honorable Supreme Court deferred the hearing of the matter on Lyngdoh Committee Recommendations to 11 November 2009. This means even if a final judgment come on that date, which is almost impossible, JNU cannot conduct election this year considering the end-sem exam and the Winter break of the University. The Lyngdoh Committee recommended that election for the Student Union must be held on or before 20 September of that year. JNU Administration is already facing contempt charges for not implementing Lyngdoh Recommendations and may not like to violate the rule again. In that case, the AISA may again claim illegally that their members elected way back in 2007 are still the JNUSU Office Bearer in 2009. They may do this again and again as it is very beneficial for their cadre and for their leader. Recently one Rajan Pandey, a staunch AISA supporter and office bearer graphically explained about the conduct of AISA. Before resigning from AISA, Rajan had unmasked the real face of AISA. All attempt of AISA portraying themselves as the messiah of the backward classes of people backfired them. How their philosophy is decaying is told by none other than their own office bearer namely, Rajan Pandey.
The administration of JNU is also less concerned about the election as the Administration can take any decision without any opposition in the absence of a student union. Nobody knows when the next election may happen!
Politics produces strange bedfellows! ABVP and NSUI! The former called themselves as patriot and termed AISA as traitor. But the same ABVP supported AISA for non-implementation of Lyngdoh Committee recommendation in JNU and joined the Joint Struggle Committee. Suddenly they realised that like them AISA is not patriot and they must sever their ties with AISA. They did it but not before offering some weird logic. ABVP conceded to the fact that that they want election in JNU with Lyngdoh Recommendation without any delay. The NSUI, which is very proud for its patent in nationalism forwarded major argument against Lyngdoh Recommendation and shared everything with AISA for a long spell of 2008-2009. Abruptly something had happened to the whole of NSUI and they started distancing themselves from the Joint Struggle Committee. More surprises were still waiting as they supported election with Lyngdoh Committee Recommendations. The only group remained loyal to AISA’s scheme of thinking for long was SFI, the poor cousin of AISA. But this bonhomie did not last long and SFI started calling AISA’s illegal office bearers with a ‘new but friendly’ term “unelected JNUSU”. Now SFI is also feeling breathlessness and want election in JNU but they don’t want to support the view of YFE which is now accepted by ABVP and NSUI.
Today also at the Supreme Court when the matter came for hearing, the AISA lawyer never said anything about the Lyngdoh Committee implementation but about the JNU election. This way they managed another hearing and retain their illegal JNUSU tag. YFE counsel M.L Lahoty argued for an end of this imbroglio. The argument of Mr. Lahoty cut ice with the Judges Markanday Katju and A K Ganguly and they gave direction to all the concerned parties to come with a consensus date for next hearing for the final disposal of the matter. This matter can again be dragged for another hearing if AISA and JNU administration may not come out with their submission on or before 11 November 2009. JNU administration’s stand is dubious till date as it is the JNU administration which is responsible for the conduct of election as per the Lyngdoh Recommendation. JNU is unwilling to shoulder the responsibility. So the AISA is having field days during the past one year. There is no restriction on election in JNU if the University authority ensured the implementation of Lyngdoh Recommendation. The Lyngdoh Committee Recommendation praised two universities the JNU and CU, Hyderabad for their election procedure for small campuses but rejected the entirety of their election method.. CU, Hyderabad had already implemented the Lyngdoh Recommendation and it is working nicely there. The same can be replicated in JNU. But the stubbornness of AISA to remain in power illegally was making all effort to conduct student union election ineffective.
Who is suffering the most! It is the common student who is misled by AISA and SFI throughout the year. Mock hunger strike was undertaken at Ad Block by SFI and later the same was suspended without any notice. Lofty claims were made by AISA that election in JNU can be held without adhering to the Lyngdoh Recommendation. But the real intention of AISA was to be remained glued with the power. Now everything is clear to the student of JNU. The communists through their missionary efforts harmed the interest of the student throughout the year. The fee hike issue raised by AISA is no more an issue. With election receding into the background AISA may take this opportunity to celebrate their 1000 days of illegal occupation of JNUSU.

Pamphlet 13.09.2009

2009-10-14T09:18:00.000+05:30

“Similar instructions were conveyed last year vide my letter No.23011/26/2008-IF.1 dated 7th July, 2008. However, I regret to say that those instructions were not given required importance”. This is not the wording of Youth For Equality to the various universities of India but the word from the Horse’ mouth. You can find this wording at page no 3 of the much touted MHRD order of 12 September 2009, which is now a raging debate inside the campus. The same MHRD directive issued in the name of Secretary, Higher Education also states that ‘I would, therefore, request you to kindly attend to this personally and ensure that these economy instructions are followed scrupulously’. The very letter which created havoc inside the campus also bear the testimony that last year also similar order passed on to universities but no university bothered to follow that. Why AISA making a mountain out of a molehill?

What happened in JNU after the directive issued by the MHRD? After one month of the 12 September 09 order, the Executive Council of JNU met on 12 October 09. Before this meeting AISA with all its misguiding capacity collected a group of students and marched to the MHRD. On the very day of Executive Council meeting the same AISA with the same misguiding capacity again collected a group of student to shout before the EC meeting at AD block of JNU. SFI came out of confusing pamphlet – half hearted, half supported the 20% resource generation measures and half opposed, NSUI is in utter confusing and even dump their own poster boy Rahul Gandhi in their pamphlet. Only Youth For Equality stood firm and welcomed the 12 September 09 move of MHRD with innovative proposals. YFE asked everybody not to be entrapped with these kinds of politically motivated issues and student must opt for a national approach full of dedication and service to the nation! Finally, the meeting of JNU’s Executive Council held and the very matter never comes for discussion. Forget about the implementation of MHRD proposal, the directive never figure in the agenda of EC meeting. Now all the political parties searching for cover – thinking why their astrological calculation never comes true on the paranoia called FEE HIKE?

Once the OBC quota is fully implemented, JNU will be having 8,000 students. Everybody knows how much they paid during admission - a mere Rs.220 per semester. It is not humanly possible to raise the Rs.220 to such a level that it may cover the 20% resource generation measures from the campus. SFI advocated for the ‘capacity to pay’ theory! They know very well that a DPS school student have to pay Rs.50, 000 while studying in high school and once the same students out of school and in JNU the fee will be Rs.220. This is actually char sau bishi not 220. SFI also lately welcomed the JNU administration’s proposal to sell admission form free of cost to BPL student! What a farce? When the administration providing free admission form to the BPL people they blocked the administration’s attempt to do so as they wanted free JNU form for their rich friends and now they are shedding crocodile tear for the BPL people.

Fee hike is neither an option nor a solution! Even if the administration doubles the existing fee the collection will be not more than Rs.10 Lakh. Moreover, in order to collect the money the administration have to spend nearly the same amount. JNU’s electricity consumption only exceeds Rupees 9 crore per annum. Like this there are many such areas where the amount is hefty and beyond the capacity of the students to think about meeting the same. The MHRD letter is mainly directed against the expenditure in foreign travel, seminars and other avoidable expenses often held in Five Stars or like places. All these measures are to ensure less suffering for our farmer in the countryside who is living with a failed monsoon! How strange it is that the communists are not concerned about the plight of our farmer in advance. But they are very smart people. Once the farmers from the countryside start dying because of poverty and starvation, the communists will come out to the street and speak loudly about the farmers. It is equally strange that the stupid and weightless NSUI is flirting with the AISA’s philosophy of loot and treason.

Pamphlet 30 July 2009, YFE JNU

2009-07-31T02:14:00.000+05:30

There is a saying in Hindi ‘Chor Ke Dadi Main Tinka’. Probably this may suit nobody better than the Shameful AISA. We don’t know about which lab of SLS they meant refereeing to the YFE pamphlet, but there must be something fishy, which one or more member/s of the said lab knows and of which the AISA is paranoid! Friends let us talk fact:

AISA said twice UGBM extended their term, even then also their term was over in May 2009! Aren’t they ashamed of calling them as JNUSU?

Strange is AISA’s believe on JNU Tradition! Are we going to extend the JNUSU through UGBM for another 40 years to preserve the JNU tradition of last 40 years! When the terms of the JNUSU end? Only AISA knows as they only are well versed in JNU tradition! Another set of facts:

If the JNUSU does not require any stamp from the VC, why have not they gone to election in 2008? What happened to the immunity of JNUSU from the office of Vice Chancellor?
Why it is that the stamping of the Vice Chancellor is accepted all the 40 years of JNU tradition with the Election Commissioner getting certificate from the JNU Vice Chancellor?
If the VC does not mean anything to the JNUSU, why the same VC denied them a seat in any of their official meeting in the post November 2008 scenario? Why they denied copy of any official proceeding? If the JNUSU can’t seat in the any of the meeting of JNU administration, what is its use and who care its existence? What happen to the student mandate in the UGBM?
If the UGBM is so valid & so strong why JNUSU is not allowed a space in JNU administration?
AISA is shameless – all YFE counselors have resigned from their post and the submission is made to the Supreme Court of India on 2 January 2009 and the wording of the submission said: “We believe in the law of the land and we honor the Supreme Court order. When we realized the fact that the 2007 JNUSU was illegal, all the student representatives of Youth For Equality elected during the 2007 student union elections resigned without any delay. (Resignation letter is attached)”.
It is not the YFE but the same above certification authority namely Vice Chancellor who said that JNUSU is illegal replying to an RTI and it is only YFE which is daring to tell the truth!

AISA is only degrading the student mandate in the UGBM. They cannot restore the prestige of the students they have lost for their greed to remained glued to the chair.

YFE never started the student assistance process during admission, neither it is desperate to do it! YFE never paranoid newcomers with threat, neither YFE accommodate the freshers in exchange of vote! Rather YFE advocates one widow admission system done by the administration! Is not it possible to assistant the student without a political tag if there is a need to assist? It is well established that who stones YFE member Sumeet Kishore to grab a newcomer in 2007! A known AISA criminal Rajan Pandey’s near fatal attack to Sumeet Kishore in 2007 and his subsequent rustication from JNU is a proof how AISA run admission assistance!

If there is a competition on shamelessness and betrayal nobody beats AISA! The AISA knows better than anyone else who started the meritocracy movement way back in 1990? If the memory of AISA does not falter they must recall the fact that it was AISA with NO MANDAL NO COMMANDAL slogan! What happened to them now? One thing is clear – when you spit towards the sun, it will drop on your face only! But opium protect you from shamelessness!

AISA people are imbecile. It was known to all, even the illiterates, that Adl. Solicitor General Gopal Subramaniam complains to the Supreme Court about the non-implementation of the Lyngdoh in JNU and YFE had no role in it! AISA lawyer told to the Supreme Court that all JNU community disagree with Lyngdoh recommendation and it was at this time YFE lawyer stood up and said YFE is agreeing with Lyngdoh! Who authorized the AISA lawyer to speak on behalf of YFE?

Betrayal??? The students memorized history! They all aware of the communist betrayal during the Quit India Movement and during China War! Who are habitual betrayers? Even the communists spell their own name without hesitation!

BHAGAT SINGH, ASFAQ, AZAD, DUSHYANT, JAIPRAKASH NARAYAN - WERE ALL THEY FIGHTING FOR PROFIT, FOR POWER, FOR POSITION, FOR OFFICE AND FOR EXTENDING THEIR TENURE INFINITELY????

It is disgusting that few power hungry communists equating themselves with Bhagat Singh, Azad, Asfaq who embraced death but never accepted any compromise or position, with Dushyant who embraced humiliation but refused any literary awards or material comforts, with JP who prefer jail to any ministerial birth!

AISA talks a lot about YFE money! But where does its own funding comes for the year long pamphlets, for huge hoardings, for funding election and for opium??? AISA arrested the helpless Registrar for eight hours – was it not a rude display of muscle power? AISA attacked Sumeet Kishor and send him to cranial injury – was not that a bizarre display of muscle power? Much has been talked about UGBM. YFE believes that to extend an electoral mandate the appeal of the UGBM is limited. Unlike the election, majority of students never participate in UGBM and hence it has no authority to extend electoral mandate! What about UGBM? What is the voting procedure of UGBM?

Is it open? Is it secret? Is it through secret ballot paper? Is it through EVM? At what time the UGBM voting takes place? And what is the percentage of participation of JNU student, in the name of whom they are ruling, at the voting?
AISA people must be under the influence of OPIUM! Always!

Lyngdoh never restrict JNU tradition, debate, discussion or anything! It only restricts the inroads of nasty political parties into the campus! Lyngdoh is an obituary message to the stooges of political parties. Student knows that better!

Pamphlet 28 July 2009, YFE JNU

2009-07-29T02:26:00.000+05:30

As the admission of new entrants is going on, voices of politically backed student organizations of JNU campus is getting shriller. Claims and counterclaims are selling like hot cake. Few students trying their best to portray themselves as the JNUSU of this campus! The illegal claim of JNUSU has even been punctured by the JNU administration by denying them a seat in any official meeting and also denying them the copy of any official meeting. But not ashamed of this kind of treatment by the JNU administration, the illegal self proclaimed office bearer JNUSU ballooning their claim as JNUSU with pamphlets and with sticker in their chest and running from newcomer to newcomer trying to convince them that they are the ILLEGAL JNUSU of this campus. Even before a newcomer enter to this campus he or she may taste the bitter test of nasty politics inside the campus.

The latest stunt of the illegal JNUSU was trying to score point by targeting the security apparatus of the university. Even a newborn baby knows the fact that the JNU security is not here to harass any student or student body but only to follow the instruction of the university. If they are so confident of their official post why they are not storming the official meetings of JNU, from where they have been discarded unceremoniously? But the reaction as well as reflection of other student bodies inside the campus on the issue of the status of the illegal JNUSU is like that of ‘don’t ask don’t say’. But this stand is for public consumption and privately all of them must be cursing themselves for supporting privately an illegal JNUSU! When Lyngdoh was being debated inside the campus whether to be implemented or not everybody boasting the long standing tradition of JNU election!

Now what happened to that long standing tradition?
Is that long standing tradition of JNU election is still protected?
Is it true that all the students of JNU are happy with the illegal and forced occupation of JNUSU by AISA?
Who give them the mandate to push the JNUSU election into an uncertain future?
Neither the Supreme Court of India nor the Government of India is desperate to conduct the JNUSU election! Also the JNU administration is very happy with the absence of a JNUSU! Who is ultimately suffering for not abiding by the Lyngdoh Committee Recommendations?
It is only YFE which is proudly supporting Lyngdoh Committee Recommendation and it was YFE lawyer, who saved JNU from an indefinite stay on election. Who is responsible for not conducting election and making the Supreme Court stay a permanent order?

But few questions are very interesting as everybody know its answer but nobody like to answer it in public! It is like the old traditional Hindu wife, who knows her husband’s name better than anybody else but never names him in public for reason unknown to even her!

What is the stand of SFI, ABVP and NSUI on the legality of JNUSU?
SFI, ABVP and NSUI want JNUSU election but when and how?
Why SFI, ABVP and NSUI want JNUSU election if they don’t have any opposition to the present illegal JNUSU?
Doesn’t the JNU student understand hypocrisy and the fact that SFI, ABVP and NSUI have accepted Lyngdoh Committee Recommendation in Delhi University and in all over India but in JNU?
When is the next hearing on JNUSU election at the Supreme Court? AISA is rumoring the fact that they are told by their lawyer that the next hearing is on 16^th of August 2009! This is a white lie as this date is a Sunday!

Nothing much can be done in this regard! YFE lawyer has already approached the Supreme Court and requested that YFE is ready to contest the election with Lyngdoh Recommendation and election in JNU be allowed to which the Supreme Court have no objection. But the JNU administration, which is the nodal body to conduct the elections, is facing contempt of court for not adopting Lyngdoh in the year 2006 and 2007 JNUSU election and hence is paralyzed to conduct any election! It is a catch 22 situation and only adhering to Lyngdoh can save JNU’s long tradition of student union election!

Pamphlet 24 July 2009, YFE JNU

2009-07-25T02:31:00.000+05:30

No matter what ever coming into their way – shamelessness, defame, dishonour and even eviction from the premise of JNU, the illegal JNUSU never stopped claiming that they are the elected student body. The administration way back in 2008 admitted that the University never certifies the JNUSU elected in the year 2007. We are now in 2009 and still they are claiming that they are the elected student leaders and hold the office of JNUSU! There shamelessness has now crossed all limits as they are categorically told by the administration that JNU do not recognize the presence of JNUSU and they cannot open a counter for admission assistance!

The three frauds who claims themselves that they are the office bearer of JNUSU teaching the JNU student JNU culture! What is JNU Culture?

Occupying the JNUSU illegally and not respecting the student aspiration is JNU culture?
For how long the JNUSU function? Forcefully in true communist style capturing the office of JNUSU that is what the JNU culture?
Catching newcomers at the gate itself forcefully and instilling them fear and paranoia during the admission is what called JNU culture?
Why they wanted to teach JNU culture to the security officer, who was only following the order of the JNU administration? Isn’t the Vice-Chancellor, who head the JNU administration, does not know what JNU culture is?
For how long they will hold the JNUSU post and teach JNU culture to the students including the newcomers?
Occupying the JNUSU office for an indefinite period, is this what JNU culture?

Youth For Equality wanted to know, if there is any financial aid to the illegal JNUSU? We warn the administration not to hobnob with the illegal JNUSU, which is claiming legality day in and day out otherwise we have to seek the intervention of the Supreme Court to tell them that the administration must face the music for sheltering the illegal JNUSU.

We believe that the JNU administration is providing the illegal JNUSU the platform to function. This is unacceptable to the student community of this campus. It is the blunder of the JNU administration and the Communist student body, which never allowed the election inside the campus for the first time in its history! It is also clear that without following Lyngdoh Commission Recommendation, election into the JNUSU is not possible. No one is getting affected by the delay in JNUSU election but the students of this university.

The claim of the illegal JNUSU is strange! They are writing pamphlets that it was due to their efforts only that the admissions of the new students are possible! What a joke! Is it possible on the part of the administration to refuse a student who has got admission if there is no assistance from the illegal JNUSU? And what is the role of JNUSU, even if illegal? Instead of making the policy more transparent and easier, these stupid students are making the admission time as one occasion to recruit new students to their party fold! Why can’t there be single window system? Why assistance is required from professional political student bodies to take admission in JNU?

Now one after another student bodies including ABVP and SFI wanted JNUSU election! But the question arises here is – who stopped the student election? ABVP now succumbed to the Lyngdoh Pressure and ready to follow the recommendation of Lyngdoh Committee for student union election! SFI is suffocating under the breathlessness of allowing its friendly rival AISA to illegally occupy JNUSU office for an indefinite period! They forgot the contribution of Youth For Equality at the Supreme Court when the lawyer of YFE restrained the Supreme Court from ordering a blanket stay on the election. It was due to the YFE the stay was conditional and the condition was ‘if the university follows Lyngdoh Recommendation’ the Supreme Court has no objection for the JNUSU election.

The stupidity of these student bodies that are refusing to follow Lyngdoh recommendation for their personal benefit, is actually the biggest hindrance for JNUSU election. The presence of illegal JNUSU inside the campus is unacceptable to the JNU students and the administration must end the illegality.

Pamphlet 16 July 2009, YFE JNU

2009-07-17T02:30:00.000+05:30

JNU students know when the last JNU Student Union Election was held. They also know that presently there is no JNUSU functioning. The JNU students very much aware of the fact that the 2007 student union election without, which never followed the Lyngdoh Recommendation was illegal and this was admitted by the JNU administration without any doubt. But still few people are claiming themselves as the reigning JNUSU as if ‘maan na maan main tera Shahrukh Khan’.

Friends, the communists are now confused what to do in the campus and spreading rumor regarding the implementation of OBC reservation. In the landmark judgment of “Youth for Equality vs. Union of India” delivered on 10 April 2008 the Supreme Court ordered that “The Government need not always provide the maximum limit. Reasonable cut off marks should be set so that standards of excellence greatly effect. The unfilled seats should revert to the general category.” Justice Pasayat and Thackker in the same judgment said “If any seats remain vacant after adopting such norms they shall be filled up by candidates from general categories.”

The Central Government did not follow the order in 2008 admission session and again Youth For Equality reached to the Supreme Court. Judgment pronounced by Justices K.G. Balakrishnan, Arijit Pasayat, C.K. Thakkar, R.V. Ravendran and Dalveer Bhandari of the Supreme Court of India on the plea of Youth For Equality on 15^th September 08 was as follows:

1) “What is the confusion? It was clarified in the judgment itself that the seats remaining vacant after the implementation of 27% OBC quota in Central Educational Institutions, including IITs and IIMs will go to the General Category. The wasting of seats cannot be allowed. It will go back to the general category. The reservation was not for ensuring that even if they (OBC) are not there, it will not go to others. It is very clear. The intention was that don’t leave the seat vacant. The intention was to give better education.”

2) "If the cut-off for general category is 50% marks in the entrance examination, you cannot admit OBC candidates who have secured just 25% marks. You cannot dilute merit altogether. That is why three of the five judges on the constitution bench had favoured a cut-off for OBC candidates — either 5% (two judges) or 10% (one judge) less than that of general candidates."

3) “The Centre, which appeared to be in a hurry to fill all the OBC seats, could not dilute merit by reducing the cut-off marks for backward class students much lower than that prescribed for the general category.”

4) “The concept of carrying forward to the next academic year the quota seats which remained unfilled is not allowed. If any seats remain vacant after adopting such norms, they shall be filled up by candidates from general categories."

Over 6,000 OBC seats in undergraduate courses in Delhi University will go to general category students this year due to absence of candidates in the reserved category. The Delhi University has 10,183 seats for OBC students. However, the varsity unable to fill these seats due to less number of applications from the OBC students. The DU administration said that “Several seats of our various colleges are still vacant. These seats will be converted into general category seats after 14 August as per the university’s earlier decision. At least two third of the total OBC seats are expected to be converted into the general seats, thus providing greater opportunity for candidates other than OBC categories”.

The JNU cannot have a different policy of its own and vacant OBC seats must go to the General Category students otherwise it may attract contempt of the Supreme Court.

Letter to the VC

2008-10-27T05:51:00.002+05:30

YOUTH
FOR EQUALITY

27.10.08

TO,

PROF.
B.B. BHATTACHARYA

VICE-CHANCELLOR

JAWAHARLAL
NEHRU UNIVERSITY

NEW
DELHI – 110067

Dear Sir,

We the representatives of Youth For Equality like to inform you
that we are in favor of JNUSU election as per Lyngdoh Committee
Recommendations and honor the Hon’able Supreme Court’s
Order dated 24.10.08.

Sir, we believe that the campus student activities must remain
untouched from the nasty political interference and planting of
stooge student body by various political parties. Though the present
system of JNU election is a role model for other institutions, still
there is lots of room for improvement. The Hon’ble Supreme
Court has precisely directed improvement in JNU election by guiding
us how to improve our unique election model and how to keep us safe
from corrupt and disruptive political onslaught from outside the
campus.

Sir, Youth For Equality share the anxiety of the common student
of JNU as the future of the academic year is now uncertain
considering the disruptive missionary zeal of various student bodies
backed by the support of their parents political parties. There is a
pressing need to end this uncertainty. The administration must ensure
sound academic environment in our campus. We don’t want to
prolong this uncertainty and as the court has fixed the
responsibility of implementation of Lyngdoh Committee Recommendation
to conduct JNU election on the JNU administration, there shall not be
any dilution or disregard of the court order on the part of JNU
administration.

Finally we like to inform you with a heavy heart that the JNUSU’s
lawyer was lying and portraying wrong picture of JNUSU election 2008
as has been evident from what he said at the Supreme Court that ‘if
Lyngdoh Recommendation will be applied in JNU all candidates will be
disqualified’. This is not true and unacceptable to YFE. It is
during this time learned counsel Mr. M.L. Lahoty interfered in the
court room and told the truth on behalf of YFE. Sir, two of our
central panel candidates may face axe if Lyngdoh recommendations
applied but we are ready to pay any price for the betterment of the
campus.

With this we would like to inform you that since we become a
party to this case, no one is allowed to misinterpret truth on our
behalf and we request the JNU administration to follow the guidelines
as per the court order. Deviation from any of the legally established
truth, fact and direction may force us to seek the court’s
intervention to correct any malaise inside the campus.

Sincerely yours,

Vikram Singh, (Presidential Candidate 08)
Brundaban Mishra, (Vice Presidential Candidate 08)
Amit Ranjan, (Gen. Sec. Candidate 08)
Raghib Akhtar (Jt. Sec. Candidate 08)
Manish Mishra (Chief Campaign Coordinator, 08)
Deepika Singh, YFE representative
Manpreet Kaur, YFE representative
Gopaljee Gopal, YFE representative

YFE Pamphlet 24.10.2008

2008-10-24T23:05:00.000+05:30

YOUTH
FOR EQUALITY

24.10.08

Kamla
Kumharin (Amrita Rao): Mausi (Aunty), how did you realized that
your daughter was maha-amangli

(ill-starred)
girl?

Mahadev
Kushwaha (Shreyas Talpade): Yes Mausi, how did you know?

Mausi
(Ila Arun): Son, when my daughter was born, as many as three
buffalo dies in the village! Not only

this when
she was eight year old, her grand father was dead! That is how we
realized!

(Dialogue
delivered by the protagonists of Shyam Benegal made superstition
satire “Welcome to

Sajjanpur”)

A
similar situation appeared in the mind of few anxious politically
motivated student bodies of JNU who are alleging Youth For Equality
saying that YFE is behind the implementation of Lyngdoh committee
recommendation in JNU election. The first thing come into mind is –
is YFE that powerful to implement anything in JNU? Is the JNUSU
admitting the fact that YFE is more powerful than the JNUSU itself??
Let’s talk fact:

How
all this drama over Lyngdoh Recommendation began?

Supreme
Court sought an explanation on last Tuesday why Lyngdoh Committee's
recommendations are not being adhered to during the students' body
election. The notice was sent to the JNU administration and JNUSU,
following a petition being filed by Gopal Subramanium.

Who
has filed the petition? Gopal Subramanium

Who
the hell is this Gopal Subramanium? Additional Solicitor
General of India, it is one of the politically appointed legal
advisor posts of incumbent government. He is the same person, who was
throughout against Youth For Equality in Supreme Court during YFE’s
fight against OBC reservation.

Who
has appointed Gopal Subramanium? Congress led UPA government
where all the Communists were part when his appointment was made.

What
was the stand of JNU Administration? JNU administration said,
JNU honor the Supreme Court order in letter and spirit. JNU also said
that no one is above the law of the land so JNUSU have to adhere to
the SC order.

What
happened to the last year JNUSU and Election Commission of JNU which
got elected without following Lyngdoh guidelines? Both the
bodies never got the ascent of the JNU Vice-Chancellor, fearing
contempt of court order. So the last year JNUSU was an illegal body,
which fooled the student of JNU for whole one year.

What
was the stand of JNUSU in the Supreme Court? Despite the court
order no one on behalf of JNUSU appeared.

Who
appeared on behalf of JNUSU? It is Election Commission of JNU
instead appeared in the Supreme Court and that too by a former Chief
Election Commissioner of JNU, who is no more a student of JNU.

Now
the big question is what was the role of Youth For Equality in this
whole affair? Nothing! Literally! Youth For Equality was never
a party to this affair, so YFE lack the requisite legality to speak
on behalf of anybody. In any court, no person can speak other than
the parties involved. Youth For Equality never be a party so no
question of taking any stand.

What
is the fuss about Ad. M.L. Lahoty’s presence at the Supreme
Court on behalf of Youth For Equality? Ad. M.L. Lahoty is a
Supreme Court lawyer and it is no surprise that he was in Supreme
Court today! Before employing any lawyer, a Vakalatnama is required
to be signed by the client with the Advocate. Has Youth For
Equality signed any such Vakalatnama with Ad. Lahoty? No, in no
uncertain term! And how come Ad. Lahoty take a stand in favor of
Lyngdoh Committee when two of our own central panel candidates may
face axe without delay if Lyngdoh recommendation followed by JNU?

But the
net question is can JNU student union election procedure overrule the
Supreme Court order? Is JNU above the law of the land? The student
communities of JNU have to respond this question.

What
is the stand of Youth For Equality? We believe in the law of the
land and we honor the Supreme Court order. But since the Lyngdoh
Committee itself louded JNU model of election, it must be protected
at any cost.

Now
who must own the responsibility of protecting student interest??
JNUSU of course! But the spineless and shameless illegal JNUSU
never bother to present the proper picture at the Supreme Court and
instead it is behaving as if they are acting in the movie Welcome to
Sajjanpur.

The only
alternative in JNU for JNU student is Youth For Equality.

Manish
Mishra/ Chief Campaign Coordinator

SC stays JNU student polls

2008-10-24T15:25:00.000+05:30

Source: The Times of India, New Delhi, 24 October, 2008

NEW DELHI:: The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the November 3 students' union elections in the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and asked its vice-chancellor why contempt proceedings not be initiated against him for allowing overage and repeat candidates to file nomination papers in breach of its directions.

In fact, the elections may not take place at all this year as the apex court fixed further hearing on the matter for December 8, while asking the university's V-C and registrar to file their responses by then.

But, an important clarification followed, when the Bench was told by counsel M L Lahoty, appearing for Youth for Equality (YFE), that many students were ready to conduct the elections as per the guidelines laid down by the Lyngdoh committee.

The Bench said: "If fresh elections to JNUSU are held in line with the recommendations of the Lyngdoh committee, there shall not be any bar on it."

Right at the beginning of the proceedings, amicus curiae and additional solicitor general Gopal Subramaniam alleged that most of the candidates were either over 28 years old or seeking re-election, both banned by the apex court in its September 22, 2006, directions, which incorporated the Lyngdoh committee's stringent recommendations to stop money and muscle power in polls for students' bodies in colleges and universities.

A Bench comprising Justices Arijit Pasayat and M K Sharma said it would not brook even the slightest breach of the elaborate guidelines issued for college and university students' body elections. "Anyone trying to overreach the orders of the court in any manner would be liable for contempt of court," it said.

"Since JNU Students Union elections are being held contrary to the mandate of the Supreme Court, it is prima facie contempt of court. Issue notice to the vice-chancellor and the registrar of JNU to show cause why action for contempt be not taken against them for violating the SC orders. Meanwhile, the elections for JNUSU shall remain stayed," the court ordered posting the matter for further hearing on December 8.

Appearing for JNUSU, counsel Sanjay Parikh said that the election process adopted for the students body in the prestigious university was unique and had been a role model for others. Here the students body itself conducts the elections without any interference from outside, he said.

Amicus curiae Subramaniam also brought to the court's notice the incident of vandalism at Samant Chandrasekhar College at Puri in Orissa by students when they were told to fall in line with the apex court's 2006 order.

"The overage candidates commanded a mob of students and went on the rampage, set the laboratory on fire and assaulted the teaching staff," he told the Bench, which lost no time in issuing notice to the college principal asking him whether steps have been taken to expel the delinquent students.

It also directed the superintendent of police, Puri, to immediately register criminal cases against the students who indulged in vandalism at the college and take action in accordance with law.

YFE Pamphlet 23.10.2008

2008-10-24T03:16:00.004+05:30

Youth For Equality

Why Youth For Equality is the need of the hour 23.10.08

I came, I saw, I conquered According to Plutarch , the words by which Julius Caesar succinctly described one of his victories. When a normal student enters JNU he/she feel that he/she has conquered a war. Within no time they started feel: I came, I saw and am now frustrated! Why -

The Scene 1: A young, anxious, curious and promising fresher entered into the portals of the prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University. After a harried journey and ride to the campus, the winding and gradually undulating roads, the verdant greenery and the impressive Ad Block building are a soothing balm on his/her frayed nerves. One look at the statue of our first PM, standing tall and elegant next to the Ad Block and the entrant cant help but feel proud of his/her stars, to have made it here.

The Scene 2: The admission process begins. The fresher is handed a sheaf of folios and asked to fill them out. “What, all of these”, s/he asks in sheer bewilderment. “These are meant to “facilitate” your admission procedure”. The term facility seems to have a different meaning in JNU; its synonyms could be cumbersome, tedious and unnecessarily taxing. If filling out the zillion documents was not enough, then throw in running from pillar-to-post for hostel allotment, if you were lucky enough to get one at all. As s/he wakes up to these facts of the administration, the now not-so-enthusiastic student is left thinking, “ Is this the JNU of my Dreams?”

E-governance: The Solution to These problems

Lets re-imagine the aforementioned situation, albeit in a novel way.

The student comes to JNU and reaches the ad-block. Instead of having a barrage of paperwork hurled onto him/her, they are greeted by a single-window system of admission; they start with feeding in their registration number into a computer terminal, which tells them their rank within the center, for the course that they have applied for. Candidates who have made it to multiple courses are informed of all their options and asked to choose likewise.

Having made up his/her mind, the student is now asked to fill out a SINGLE prototype of the folio, online. A facsimile of this document is dispatched to all the offices where it is required, also online. Any mistakes in filling out the form will be highlighted by the computer and the candidate will be prompted to rectify them, then and there.

For fee deposition, the candidates will have to carry a DD of the requisite amount with them and simply fill up the draft no. as and when prompted by the computer; no hassle of waiting in long queues for balance. Online bank services will be provided, in case one does not have a draft.

This being done, the page would change to the hostel allotment procedure. Since the details are already with the administration, the hostel availability status, in view of the rank and seniority of the candidate, will be displayed on the screen. The candidates will be told of the dates when the hostel allotment starts and the allotment procedure will be online as well.

As the day ends, the student returns to his/her abode, relaxed and unruffled. As he thinks about the great ease with which he spent his day, so productively, he can’t help but think, “This is the JNU of my dreams”.Youth For Equality is committed to the e-governance and once it win the JNUSU election, the first thing after the scholarship issue will be that of e-governance as described above. Only student support is required to convert this archaic system into a modern one. Lets join hand to make this university modern and student friendly.

Youth for Equality invites all for a Public Talk on : Reservation Vis-à-vis Equal Opportunity

Tonight 23rd October, 9:30 PM Mahi-Mandavi Mess

Central Panel

President : Vikram Singh

Vice President : Brundabana Mishra

Gen. Secretary : Amit Ranjan

Joint. Secretary : Raghib Akhtar

Councillors

SLL & CS -Pankaj, Pranav, Pratyush, Md. Mohtashim

SSS -Vinod Kumar

SIT -Arvind Singh Mer

SBT -Shivendra Kumar

SLS: -Vibhor, Goutam, Preksha

GUEST SPEAKERS

Shri Sharad Anantrao Joshi: Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha).

Prof. Makhan Lal: Distinguished Historian,

Former Director, Institute of Archaeology, Delhi.

Prof. P.V. Indiresan: Eminent Scholar,

Former Director, IIT Madras.

Manish Mishra Hasan Mohammad

Chief Campaign Coordinator, YFE YFE Representative

Public talk 23 Oct, 2008

2008-10-23T16:59:00.002+05:30

YFE Pamphlet 22.10.2008

2008-10-22T16:55:00.001+05:30

YOUTH FOR EQUALITY

22.10.08

Youth For Equality
congratulates the scientific community for successfully lunching
the Chandrayaan-I today. It is like we demanded moon and ISRO
delivered it. Carrying over a billion hopes, India's maiden lunar
mission Chandrayaan-I began its historic journey to the moon today
when an indigenously developed rocket placed the spacecraft into
the Transfer Orbit "perfectly". Chandrayaan-I is
carrying an Indian flag which will be placed on the lunar surface
when the Moon Impactor Probe lands on the moon during the course
of the two-year mission.

Why Youth
For Equality is the need of the hour??

“An invasion of
an army can be resisted, not an idea whose time has come” said
Victor Hugo. Youth For Equality is an idea whose time has come. It
has now been proved beyond doubt that the voice of YFE cannot be
suppressed by force, politics, vendetta or any other despicable act.

YFE
will never find a place in JNU!! This is what the communists and
other parties of the campus said in the year 2006. Although the
campus’ progressive communists never believe in astrology still
they had made this astrological calculation during the formation of
Youth For Equality in May 2006. They have employed each and every
technique to stop YFE forcibly from growoing. Organized attack on the
peaceful YFE rally on 19 May 2006 is still fresh in the mind of JNU
students. They tried to defame YFE rally by using their tested false
propaganda. But YFE outsmarted the communists by calling media and
the entire rally was organized the broad light of TV cameras. The
presence of media reduced the chance for any false propaganda. They
never stopped there – filed FIR at police station, complained
at the Rector’s office and spread calumny. But like gold coming
out of fire YFE was shining while dealing with all these allegations
and organized the 33 days biggest ever hunger strike in JNU.

YFE
will not survive!! This is the next set of predictions made by
the same people. Their prediction was based on the fact that since
YFE is not supported financially by any political party and since it
has no rotten/corrupt political patron, YFE will not survive. YFE
proved every calculation wrong and also proved that it does not
required black money, muscle power and corrupt political practice to
run a student movement. Self motivated student across the country
comes under the umbrella of YFE and proved what their motivated
action can do. Against the strong political will of the entire
parliament, Youth For Equality halted the OBC reservation for two
long years from getting implemented. This was first of its kind in
India. 54% seat increase was the formula offered by the political
class to convince YFE. YFE accepted the increase formula as it was a
long awaited decision but never accepted the faulty reservation
policy. When the final judgment pronounced the political class again
got a series of shock treatments like: no to creamy layer, vacant OBC
seats must go to general category and finally PG completed students
are no more eligible for reservation (PG case is still in the Supreme
Court). Youth For Equality flourished again.

Statistics
says more than words and rhetoric. The vote share for all the Central
Panel posts in the year 2006 was: AISA 24.3%, SFI 22.8%, YFE
21.04%; in the year 2007 it was AISA 28.4%, YFE 23.29%, SFI
22.17%!

Organization

President

Vice President

General Secretary

Joint Secretary

YFE

(2006)

810

(Sonika Tyagi)

736

(Brundaban Mishra)

739

(Upasana Dhankar)

722

(Babita Sharma)

YFE

(2007)

924

(Babita Sharma)

764

(Sujeet Kumar)

927

(Swasti Rao)

870

(Kumar Abhijeet)

OBC
Reservation toh implement ho gaya ab YFE kya karegi: “Sometimes,”
said the Queen in Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland,
“I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before
breakfast.” Reservation was not the issue which brought us into
the street; it was there before as well. And those who were on the
street are all doctors, engineers and Management professional who
never fought for their own welfare. Then what were the reasons? A
variety of reasons were there. Prominent were dividing the society on
caste basis, reservation to the powerful caste in exchange of vote,
killing the most reputed institutions of India in the name of
reservation (as they have done it to Allahabad University/Calcutta
University to mention a few), appeasing the already powerful people
(creamy layer) and following a failed reservation policy were the
reasons behind the agitation.

Not a
single seat in AIIMS/IITs/IIMs was ever increased in independent
India. It was after YFE’s agitation a massive 54% seat increase
undertaken. The eleventh five year plan got a massive 20% increase on
education and the ruling establishment forced to create 16 more
Central Universities to the already existed 20. The National
Knowledge Commission suggested 1500 vocational college and 300
universities. These measures were impossible in the pre-YFE era like
of Queen in Lewis Caroll’s believe in Alice in Wonderland.

Presence
of YFE forced the other student bodies to talk about JNU: Before
the emergence of YFE, politically backed student bodies were fighting
the JNUSU election on issues far from JNU. Now there is talk of
campus related issues. YFE raised the scholarship issues for all.
When the discrimination taken place in the disbursal of scholarship
to

the
general category students, it is YFE which raised voice and demanded
equalization. YFE’s all 8 councilors signed and present the
case at the UGC for equal scholarship to general category student.
AISA never thought it good to include in the proposal neither at the
JNU Court nor at UGC. SFI another silent spectator of this drama
never bother to visit UGC to press the demand. It is only YFE which
raise the issue every now and then and filed a series of RTI both at
JNU and at UGC to reach to the genesis of the discrimination.

YFE
would like to ask the AISA and its predecessor SFI – when the
need, study requirement, livelihood and all other parameters are the
same for general category student and Rajiv Gandhi Fellowship holders
why there is a huge discrimination? Why general category students
should remain satisfied with Rs.3000/5000 when the Rajiv Gandhi
Fellowship holder get Rs.12,000/14,000 every month? YFE has already
demonstrated through a series of action how it can change the course
of history. Through our missionary zeal we forced the CSIR to
increase the number of scholarship and also to increase the amount
from Rs.8000 to Rs.12000. YFE through raised the issue of full
fledged bank facilities with draft facility and agitated/negotiated
with the senior SBI official. Now it is a reality.

Now other student organization not seeking vote on the issue of Iraq,
America, Russia, China, Palestine, Israel or on any other exotic
issues but on campus related issues.

Contrary to the welfare of the student AISA indulged in self
promotion. They use JNU as a stage for national politics. AISA led
JNUSU’s own expenditure sheet told us how they have used 40% of
student money in their party’s pamphleteering! Their only
weapon is rumor machine, which always work overtime to propagate
false achievement and accuse other of not doing anything. But the big
question is how long AISA can fool its own supporter and JNU student?

Hame
kaun Hara Sakta hai, hum to AISA hai: AISA has been claiming this
since long and their claim is based on the innocence and suffering of
new students. First they allow them to suffer from scarcity of
hostel, then their indoctrination style includes paranoia to new
entrants and finally they take caste issues to come into power! This
is how AISA play in JNU.

Friends,
now the time has come to expose the antipathy of left organization to
the student aspiration. The time is to elect a sensitive and student
centric student body. Only Youth For Equality has proven humility to
take the place of JNUSU.

Central
panel

Vikram
Singh - President

Brundaban
Mishra - Vice President

Amit
Ranjan – General Secretary

Raghiv
Akhtar - Joint Secretary

SCHOOL
OF LANGUAGE, LITERATURE AND CULTURE

Councillors:

Pankaj
Kumar Choubey

Pranav

Pratyush

Mohitashir
Ahemad

SCHOOL
OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

Vinod
kumar

SCHOOL
OF LIFE SCIENCES

Councillors:

Bibhor
Gupta

Gautam
Kr. Tanti

Prakhya

SCHOOL
OF BIO-TECHNOLOGY

Councilor: Sibendra

SCHOOL
OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Councilor: Arvind
Singh Mer

Manish
Mishra /Chief Campaign Coordinator

Anti-Left forum comes up ahead of JNUSU polls

2008-10-22T15:34:00.000+05:30

Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Anti-Left_forum_ahead_of_JNUSU_polls/articleshow/3627642.cms

22 Oct 2008, 1224 hrs IST, PTI

NEW DELHI: Ahead of JNU students' union elections, a section of students in the campus have formed a platform to prevent the Left organisations from coming to power this year.

Led by an Iranian student, Farbode Vasighi, the newly formed 'Anti Communist League' is an effort to take all the forces together to prove that JNU is not limited to Left's ideology alone.

“Anti-Left forces are not less than pro-Left forces in JNU. Then why JNU is called Left's bastion. It has a national character,” said Farbode, a student of Persian Centre.

“Our aim is to destroy dominance of Left in JNU and create equal opportunities for all,” he added.

These students blame Left organisations for hijacking the whole administration of the campus.

“According to the constitution of JNUSU, the elections should have been over by October 21 this year. But, these Left groups purposefully conduct elections in festive season of Diwali and 'Chhath', due to which our supporters go home and we get less votes in the elections," said Amit Srivastava, a PhD student and co-convener of the forum.

Accusing the administration of targeting non-left students, he said, "Teachers in JNU have been a cadre of Left. You can be targeted in any way here."

To mobilise students, the conveners of the league have launched a campaign through SMSes, e-mails, orkut and facebook.

YFE Pamphlet 21.10.2008

2008-10-22T04:30:00.004+05:30

YOUTH
FOR EQUALITY

21.10.08

Why Youth For Equality is the need of the hour??

One communist student body (SFI) was taken over by another set of radicals but more inefficient communist student body (AISA) during the 2007 JNUSU election. The tall claim of AISA had fallen flat when the year 2007-08 ended without a single achievement to name! AISA’s style of functioning does not include the welfare of student or welfare of campus! That’s why they remained a mute spectator to the end number of discriminatory treatment meted out to various sections of JNU student in matter ranging from hostel allotment to scholarship issue. The outgoing JNUSU never raised the issue of placement cell in JNU and cannot think of e-governance. All the infrastructure including adequate no of computers meant for the e-governance programme gathering dust in JNU but AISA have no time to modernize the campus and least interested to make the university more student friendly. JNU follows archaic system of admission, registration and its policies are more painful for those who intended to submit Dissertation and Thesis. AISA want to make it more complicated and prefer to stay in the Stone
Age.

If we forget for a moment about the campus activities – the most popular theme of AISA was Singoor. Contrary to their claim, the farmers and families who were earning their bread and butter from TATA Plant in Singoor are now committing suicide after the departure of TATA. AISA must be very much satisfied seeing the population of Singoor starving after the departure of TATA! Due to heavy construction activities in JNU the number of workers actually increased over the one year but AISA stopped persuading their cause! Probably it is no more productive politically for AISA! There is no end of their failures!

YFE to check the champion of competitive reservation politics!

Another party ABVP (champion of caste based OBC reservation) with all its loud words for nationalism and national unity actually work overtime to divide the society on caste basis. Twice its parent party BJP had bent the Indian Constitution to accommodate its vote greed interest
by promoting sectarian interest. First the BJP bent the constitution in the year 2000 with

THE CONSTITUTION (EIGHTY-FIRST AMENDMENT) ACT, 2000 [9th June, 2000].
This was meant to overrule the Supreme Court order on the rule against the carry forward policy! Look at this how BJP’s Vasundhara Raje made the proposal: “The Supreme Court of India in its judgment in the Indra Sawhney versus Union of India held that the number of vacancies to be filled up on the basis of reservations in a year including carried forward reservations should in no case exceed the limit of fifty per cent. The Government,
after considering various representations, reviewed the position and has decided to make amendment in the constitution so that the unfilled vacancies of a year, which are reserved for being filled up in that year in accordance with any provision for reservation made under clause (4) or clause (4A) of article 16 of the Constitution, shall be considered as a separate class of vacancies to be filled up in any succeeding year or years and such class of vacancies shall not be considered together with the vacancies of the year in which they are being filled up for determining the ceiling of fifty percent.”

BJP’s scheme of promoting caste does not end here and in the year 2002 brought another amendment. This time extending reservation in promotion! Scandalous one can say and while doing so the BJP actually killed the efficiency factor at work place in one stroke. Now onwords promotion no more on the basis of performance but caste. THE CONSTITUTION (EIGHTY-FIFTH AMENDMENT) ACT, 2001[4th January, 2002], brought by the BJP government made provision for reservation in promotion, that means promoting the already empowered! The amendment says: “Amendment of article 16.

In article 16 of the Constitution, in clause (4A), for the words "in matters of promotion to any class", the words "in matters of promotion, with consequential seniority, to any class" shall be substituted.” Now the time has come to realize the folly. Let’s choose our leader with reason and result oriented analysis. Lets make no mistake in choosing Youth For Equality.

YFE Pamphlet 20.10.2008

2008-10-21T04:30:00.000+05:30

YOUTH
FOR EQUALITY

Why Youth
For Equality is the need of the hour?? 20.10.08

Competitive
politics over reservation in India is rampant without rest. All the
parties trying to woo one or other caste group. Political parties are
holding caste panchayat and offering irrational booty in return of
vote. While addressing a convention
of upper castes in UP, Mayawati said, "The reservation on the
basis of economic
and other parameters will enable the upper caste community members to
address their problems, especially those related to poverty and
unemployment." This is another way of alluring some more caste
groups and hence continues with the caste legacy. If the state nurse
education and economy properly no reservation is needed for any
section or community of India. Youth For Equality is all for over all
improvement of all the community not on the basis of caste but on the
basis of real disadvantage and poverty. Identification of the people
who left behind in the process of development must be done on
individual basis and accordingly the issue of backwardness must be
addressed.

The
need of YFE is very relevant to achieve certain most striking goals
of JNU student.

YFE will meet the demand that the UGC Fellowship for
M.Phil./Ph.D. (Rs.3,000/5,000 since April 2007) students should be
equalized with that of the Rajeev Gandhi Fellowship (Rs.
12,000/14,000 since July 2005).
If YFE’s agitation can resulted in the increase
of CSIR seats and increase in CSIR Fellowships (Rs.12,000 & Rs.
14,000 respectively for JRF and SRF from Rs.8,000 & Rs.10,000),
JNUSU’s agitation can ensure many such achievements.
YFE never collected money from the campus for Bihar
Relief Work. Rather we seek volunteer for relief work in Bihar. Even
now YFE volunteers are working in Saharsa, Bihar. The contact nos
for help line are Mumbai +91 - 9324334359, 9821871945, New Delhi-
+91 – 9811382902,9868340420, Patna - +91 – 9308022326,
9234616135. More can be found at http://youthforequality.com.
Now the question is what happens to the money collected by outgoing
JNUSU from JNU community?? Every time there is a national calamity
the left parties indulge in collection of money and make profit out
of national calamity. Last year’s community kitchen scandal is
still fresh. Lots of money collected from the student, faculty and
staff but no account is available.
YFE will ensure that reservations should not be on the
basis of caste, but should be based on the real backwardness and
economic background.
YFE will ensure in no uncertain term that in the campus
must be the first 'e-governance' zone in India.
YFE will ensure that DSW should notify the list of all
hostels just before the commencement of academic session clearly
stating the no of rooms available for fresh allotment for the
newcomers and also the shortfall the university have to bear. This
is especially important as every hostel asked the old student to
vacate the room on 15th May every year. Why periodic list and why
harassment?
As per the JNUSU constitution article-13(ii), no. of
council seats from different Schools/Centres should be like
following: NO. OF STUDENT COUNCIL SEAT

20-60 1

61-100 2
101-200 3

201-300 4

301 and above 5

As per the constitution the JNUSU must ensure the
increase of one council seat in SBT, SPS and SAA as their strength is
more than 60 from past many years. Also, one separate council seat
should be allotted for SCMM, which has been included with BIC till
now, since both centers have more than 30 students. YFE will ensure
all this.

With these ideals and many more YFE is again contesting the 2008
JNUSU election. We believe that during the last many years precious
little has been done for the University and hence JNU is not figured
in the best 400 universities of the world. YFE is committed for the
excellence of JNU with the support of student community.

Central
panel

Vikram
Singh - President

Brundaban
Mishra - Vice President

Amit
Ranjan – General Secretary

Raghiv
Akhtar - Joint Secretary

SCHOOL
OF LANGUAGE, LITERATURE AND CULTURE

Councillors:

Pankaj
Kumar Choubey

Pranav

Pratyush

Mohitashir
Ahemad

Nandan

SCHOOL
OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

Vinod
kumar

SCHOOL
OF LIFE SCIENCES

Councillors:

Bibhor
Gupta

Gautam
Kr. Tanti

Prakhya

SCHOOL
OF BIO-TECHNOLOGY

Councilor: Sibendra

SCHOOL
OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Councilor: Arvind
Singh Mer

Manish
Mishra

Chief Campaign
Coordinator

YFE Pamphlet 19.10.2008

2008-10-20T04:28:00.000+05:30

YOUTH
FOR EQUALITY

19.10.08

Why
Youth For Equality is the need of the hour??

In the aftermath of Shri Rajiv Gandhi’s death, India stops
producing true national leaders capable of running India without
indulging in caste politics! Many caste based parties mushroomed and
the national parties were also sided with one or other caste. The
result is a divided India in the line of caste, creed, religion and
region. There is no political party now who can claim to represent a
united India. Campus never remained untouched from this divisive
caste politics and the reflection of this nasty politics can be seen
with a more sinister face. A good part of study time inside the
campus now devoted to discuss the benefit and loss of belonging to
one caste or another.

Today
only North Indian students who are on their way to appear in Railway
Examination in Mumbai are beaten black and blue by the Maharashtra
Navnirman Sena. Youth For Equality condemns such act and committed to
end it not by word but through genuine means.

We
believe in the essential Indian ideal that we are not constrained by
the circumstances of birth but can make of our lives what we will.
Unfortunately, for too many, that ideal is not a reality. We have
more work to do. Youth For Equality will fight to end discrimination
based on race, sex, ethnicity, national origin, language, religion,
gender identity, age, and disability in every corner of our country,
because that's the India we believe in.

We aim at Casteless society i.e. society where there is no
discrimination on the basis of birth mark. Education for All
with special emphasis on women and children education. Good
Governance, that is Sensitive, honest, transparent, pro-people.
Employment opportunity for all the needy people. The Gandhian
model of employment, where a delicate balance of man and machine,
must be followed as India is a populous country. Health for all in
a healthy environment. Develop and consolidate a feeling of
National Unity among people irrespective of religion, caste or
province. Promote and nurture excellence to make India a superpower.

What we
have achieved??

The
agitation of Youth For Equality generated debate, tact and talk in
the whole country. This has resulted huge increase of educational
infrastructure.
Not
a single medical or engineering seat has even been increased in the
history of independent India despite the large increase of student
population and demand. It is because of Youth For Equality there is
now provision for massive increase of seats in all institutions of
repute which includes IITs, IIMs, AIIMS, Centrally Funded Medical
Colleges and Institutions.
YFE
forced the national government to offer a whopping Rs. 224 Crores
for JNU specific grant alone to increase infrastructure. This is not
sufficient but vital at this hour. Not a single penny the leftist,
rightist or centrist student body ever generated for our own
university.
The
YFE restrained the entire political class inside the campus and
outside to implement the irrational OBC reservation policy for two
years. Now the vacant OBC seats gone to general category students
and no politics can be played on the implementation of OBC
reservation.
Parity
in amount of CSIR-UGC (8000/PM) Fellowship with that of UGC
(12,000/PM) scholarship was a proud achievement of YFE! Contrary to
this the leftist have beached the trust of the students and accepted
lower amount (3000/5000) and unacceptable date (April 2007) for the
release of UGC sponsored scholarship for the general category
students.
The
protest of YFE prompted the National Knowledge Commission to
recommend 1500 new colleges (professional/Vocational) and 300 new
Universities to be established in India.

What
we have still to achieve??

The
most important task is to force the government to provide free and
compulsory primary education to every children of India. The second
most important task will be to make reservation of any kind
irrelevant in India. This can be done through proper education and
catering the need of each person of the society.

The
argument after the OBC reservation judgment that a person with a
master degree is educationally forward hence must be discarded from
the quota benefit is still going on at the Supreme Court. This case
is very vital for all the student community and YFE is committed to
fight.

Government
raised the bar of creamy layer to 4.5 lakh and this has exposed vote
bank politics of the government and its less concern for the poor and
deprived. YFE may not leave any stone unturned to correct the
malaise. There is a stalking danger to infuse quota in private
sector. YFE believe that will hinder the economic growth and
international reputation of India. In its recent verdict Supreme
Court has already disapproved quota in private sector. Reservation
one day must be the relic of an unfortunate past and we try to end it
through collective action.

All
the campus student bodies are now become the stooge of the political
parties. There is no independence of thought and action on the part
of student themselves. YFE is committed to fill the void. Now the
time is ripe for change. Time for Youth For Equality has come.

YFE Pamphlet 18.10.2008

2008-10-19T04:28:00.000+05:30

YOUTH
FOR EQUALITY

18.10.08

It is now become a habit
of the campus communist that they never stop on an issue they
themselves raise and deflect the attention of the student, read
voter, to other issues every now and then without delay. The risk of
exposure of their inefficiency is always there if they address the
self imposed question. What is/are the achievement/achievements of
the outgoing JNUSU during the last one year?? Have they ever
addressed the inequality of scholarships in between the general
category students and backward category students?? Have they ever got
success in addressing the hostel crises issues?? Do they know that
even 2^nd ranker general category students of various
centres are still to get hostel and do they bother to address this
issue?? What happened to the placement cell??

Now AISA
borrowing/stealing stanza from YFE’s writing ‘deep
slumber’! AISA, an organization born with the slogan of NO
MANDAL, NO KAMANDAL is now adopting the both Mandal and Kamandal!
Despite the rhetoric of AISA, OBC reservation is the most contentious
and failed policy in JNU. AISA’s deep slumber can be judged
from the fact that there is a reduction of OBC candidates in JNU
after the implementation of OBC reservation.

Lets see AISA, the self
proclaimed master of poor people at large, is behaving on OBC
reservation! The government raised the income cap of creamy layer to
4.5 lakh per annum. That means the person who is earning Rs.37,000
per month is now eligible for OBC quota. Under this circumstance YFE
wonder if the poor people, about whom AISA makes huge hue and cry,
can avail the OBC reservation benefit! YFE also wonder if AISA’s
scheme of thinking allows their conscience to term a person with
Rs.37,000 income per month as backward and eligible for OBC quota??
This is especially important when the average
income of a person in India is still less than Rs 2,500 a month.
However, after adjusting for inflation, per capita income in real
terms (at 1999-2000 prices) comes at Rs 1,873.58 monthly. Number of
people, in India, who are below poverty line is about 300 million or
30 Crore. Indirectly these sections of people are not entitled to
get any benefit of reservation! The minimum wages in India, vary from
state to state and city to city, and average Rs. 1000 - 1250/month or
Rs. 12,000 - 15,000/yr. Now these lots of AAM ADMI have to compete
with persons whose income is Rs. 37,500 per month for reservation.

MORAL:
AISA IS THE AGENTS OF CREAMY LAYER AND OBC RESERVATION IS MEANT FOR
CREAMY LAYER WITH FIRM SUPPORT OF PARTIES LIKE AISA!

It is surprising to find
that modern days Marxists are fighting for caste! This was not the
intension of even Marx himself. He was against class and the entire
communism philosophy is based on the concept of class. But remaining
active in the business of vote bank politics the communists can do
anything, lest they can shun class and adopt caste!

Our homegrown communists
and social justicewalas can learn something from the US Democratic
Presidential candidates Barak Obama. ‘Obama opposes
slavery reparations, apology’ reported
Christopher Wills in the Associated Press on 02.08.08. He
further reported that ‘Democratic presidential candidate Barack
Obama opposes offering reparations to the descendants of slaves,
putting him at odds with some black groups and leaders. The man with
a serious chance to become the nation's first black president argues
that government should instead combat the legacy of slavery by
improving schools, health care and the economy for all.’ The
Illinois Senator himself said: "I have said in the past —
and I'll repeat again — that the best reparations we can
provide are good schools in the inner city and jobs for people who
are unemployed". If anyone suspecting this act as a vote
getting technique, he/she can comprehensively be wrong for the simple
reason that this is not a position Obama adopted just for the
presidential campaign. He voiced the same concerns about reparations
during his successful run for the Senate in 2004.

This is the most
suitable model of improving society and Youth For Equality believes
in the ideals of Senator Obama at best.

JNU is where it was
prior to the election of 2007 even more backward than the year 2007.
AISA has perfected the art of opposing valuable dignitaries’
visit to the campus. They have opposed the visit of Prime Minister
and President and now they are opposing foreign dignitaries. There
contempt for the common students is vivid. AISA is not interested in
the welfare and academic excellence of students interested in the
subject of International Relations. A new set of leadership is the
need of the hour in JNU. With the turning of time Youth For Equality
is now better prepared to lead the University and will herald the
change students are waiting since years.

YFE Pamphlet 14.10.2008

2008-10-15T04:26:00.000+05:30

YOUTH
FOR EQUALITY

14.10.08

Naked
discrimination

The
Supreme Court on 9^th of May 2008 struck down the AIIMS Act
2007 passed by the Parliament, which sacked Dr. P. Venugopal from
AIIMS. The apex court ordered the reinstatement of former AIIMS
director P Venugopal with all honours and termed the controversial
AIIMS Act as “naked discrimination” and “one-man
legislation”.

A
similar naked discrimination is going on since 2007 in JNU.
Discrimination on the basis of caste and unequal amount of
scholarship has now become the law of JNU. Also there is a policy of
willful offer of profit and loss to reserved category students and
general category students respectively. YFE sought information from
the JNU administration under the RTI act to know the genesis of the
problem. The answer shed some light on the willful negligence of
social justice walah of JNU. While there is a vast gap in the amount
of scholarship which is Rs. 3,000 and Rs. 5,000 for the general
category students and Rs. 12,000 and 14, 000 for reserved category,
the general category student community still to come in terms with
the yardstick taken to allow this naked discrimination. The RTI
answer said:

“The University Grants
Commission while communicating its approval of the fellowship scheme
@ Rs.3000/- and Rs.5000/- per month for M.Phil and Ph.D. scholars
respectively, has left it to the Universities to decide the date of
its implementation as per the availability of the funds under the X^th
Plan grant of the University.as already communicated, JNU already had
committed expenditure more than the sanctioned grant under X^th
plan and therefore, could not implement the enhanced fellowship
during the 10^th Plan period”

The
question arises are – for whom the University is functioning?
For the whole student community or for a select group of castes of
JNU? Why the financial crunch attacked the general category students
only? Is the university not committed to the welfare of the general
category students? What is the role of the JNUSU? Who will go and
request them to wake up from the deep slumber and force the
administration to equalize the amount of scholarship? Why the
expenditure crunch never affected the caste certificate holders of
this university? Why there were two different dates of implementation
of scholarship – one as back as July 2005 for the reserved and
one as early as April 2007 for the unreserved??

The RTI
further says:

“On receipt of advanced
plan grant for expenditure during the XI^th plan vide UGC
letter dated 9 June, 2007 the University had started payment of
enhanced fellowship w.e.f. 1.4.2007. It has been brought to the
notice of the University that some of the Central Universities have
been paying the fellowships @Rs. 3000/- and Rs.5000/- per month to
their students from a much earlier date.”

It was
Youth For Equality, which brought to the notice of the JNU
administration that Central University, Hyderabad, BHU and some other
universities have already been paying scholarship to their students
from the year 2006. It is now becoming a habit of the JNU
administration and left led-JNUSU to disregard all the aspirations of
general category students. The University has released grant under
XI^th plan as if it is doing a great mercy to the General
Category students. The Vice-Chancellor and other officials were
behaving as if they were giving this scholarship from their own
salary. But the same university opts for the mythical Karna like
generosity when it comes to the issue of scholarship for the reserved
category students.

Youth
For Equality consistently following the scholarship discrimination
issue. When YFE pressed for the equalization of the amount of
scholarship and date of release with that of the reserved category
students, the JNU Administration said:

“As already communicated
to the UGC the expenditure on account of payment of fellowships as
per UGC decision dated 1-2-2007 comes to Rs.11.00 crores per annum
for the current strength of the students. An additional sum of Rs.
19.00 crores will, therefore, be required for payment of enhanced
fellowships from July, 2005”.

Friends,
now it is clear like crystal that neither the JNU administration nor
the JNUSU were keen to fight with the UGC to equalize the date of
release of scholarships to both the categories of students. JNU
Administration’s limitation is understandable! Of many
compulsions one strong compulsion might be that of Prof. B.B.
Bhattacharya, who might be eyeing for a post retirement position with
the Government so he cannot raise voice for the General category
students! But what happened to the JNUSU? They are the most worthless
creatures for the General Category students! They never raise the
issue infront of the administration, forget about pressurizing the
UGC! What is the answer of JNUSU that why it allowed this naked
discrimination to happen?? Do the near illiterate communist led JNUSU
understand what the term GENERAL CATEGORY meant?? It includes all
including SC/ST/OBC/WOMEN/MINORITY/OTHERS/HANDICAPPED!

YFE Pamphlet 13.10.2008

2008-10-14T04:24:00.000+05:30

YOUTH
FOR EQUALITY

13.10.08

‘Humankind cannot bear too
much reality’, T.S. Eliot observed in an immortal line. The
political establishments along with the elite intellectuals have
behaved as if their constituents and audiences cannot bear the
reality on atrocity and perpetrators of these atrocities on dalit.
Many in the political establishment and in the mainstream journalism
actively twisted the narrative so that the identity of the aggressors
remains in obscurity.

Yesterday’s communal
violence in Andhra Pradesh and Caste Violence in Patna were the
testimony of T.S. Eliot’s saying.

The so called ‘backward
class movements’ in Tamil Nadu had a narrow social base, and
was led by an elite organization of Rajas, zamindars, industrialists,
lawyers, and doctors^¹,
from families with generations of involvement in the government
services and the professions behind them^².

Since the 1990s, India has
witnessed a spurt in violence against dalits. This physical violence
is perpetrated largely by the ‘backward’ castes, who
claim victim hood under Brahmins but also turn oppressors of dalits.
Tamil Nadu, home to the non-Brahmin movement, has been projected by
the political class, social scientists and policy-makers as fertile
soil for social justice. However, the Dravidian movement’s
empowerment agenda left the dalits – nineteen percent of the
population – almost untouched. In fact, dalits have been
subjected to the worst forms of violence, from being forced to
consume human excreta to being murdered for contesting local body
elections. More than being a consequence of the accumulation of power
in the hands of the intermediary castes, such violence would be
better understood as an attempt by the ‘backward’ caste
Hindus to test their new found authority on those below them.

The
‘Backward’ castes that inflict violence against dalits –
especially physical violence – do not possess full-fledged
authority in Indian society. Since the parliamentary form of
democracy introduced in post-independence India favored the wielding
of power by those who are in a majority in society, these backward
castes have, over the years, come to control political power. The
constitution of 1950 and the introduction of the concept of
secularism curtailed the religious authority of the Brahmins,
Maulavis and other priestly class and the Backward Castes were no
longer bound to be subservient to these priestly class. It was only
subsequently that economic, administrative and political power
devolved to the Backward Castes.

If we examine the violence
against dalits in this context, we will have to come to a different
conclusion altogether. Rather than seeing it a consequence of such
accumulation of power among the Backward Castes, the violence against
dalits would be better understood as an attempt by Backward Caste
Hindus to test their newfound authority on those below them. This not
to say that the Dalits are not asserting their rights^³.

Since Brahmins have been a
numerical minority in Hindu society, their violence has mostly been
symbolic; whereas the violence unleashed by the castes which are in a
numerical majority is physical in nature. Earlier, the authority to
decide whether a king could be bestowed with recognition and
legitimacy was vested with the Brahmins. The dilemma faced by
Shivaji, the Maratha ruler, in the face of such Brahmin authority is
recent in our collective memory. Today, the Brahmins wield no such
authority. The authority that has been concentrated in the hands of
the numerically strong castes has led to their power becoming
unlimited in scope.

The Vanniyar Sangam was
constituted in 1980 and evolved into the Paattali Makkal Katchi (PMK)
under the leadership of S. Ramadoss, a medical doctor. Today, the PMK
wields tremendous influence in the Vanniar belt – the northern
districts of Tamil Nadu. In 1987, they staged a weeklong roadblock to
demand 20 percent reservation for Vanniyars. During this struggle
they torched more than a thousand dalit homes. The agitation and its
success led to the subsequent political consolidation of the
Vanniyars^⁴.

October 4, 1998 was a black
Sunday for the people of the coastal Ramanathapuram district in
southern Tamil Nadu. Just two days after the nation celebrated the
129th birth anniversary of Mahata Gandhi, caste-related violence
rocked the villages and towns on either side of the national highway
that links this economically backward district with the city of
Madurai. Eleven persons were killed and several were injured in the
violence and the police action that followed. Six of the dead were
dalits; the five others belonged to the thevar community, a Most
Backward Class group. All the victims were from among the
economically weaker sections. Scores of houses were torched and
hundreds of people rendered homeless.

The immediate cause of the
violence was provided by a district-level rally at Ramanathapuram,
organized by the Thevarkula Kottamaippu (Thevar Federation).
According to a senior politician from a neighboring district, the
Koottamaippu is “a conglomeration of unorganized groups of
young thevar extremists who have joined the power struggle in the
Tamil Nadu Thevar Peravai”. The Thevar Peravai is said to have
been behind the many instances of violence involving thevars and
dalits that have racked the southern districts in the past five
years. Its leadership, perceived to be close to All India Anna
Dravida Mennetra Kazhagam general secretary and former Chief Minister
J. Jayalalitha, is now caught up in litigation and has been rendered
inactive^⁵.

Backward Caste resistance to
dalit empowerment has manifested itself in various forms since
elections to local bodies were first held in 1996 under the revised
Tamil Nadu Panchayats Act, 1994. When civic elections were held in
1996 and 2001, in several places backward caste groups attempted to
get their village panchayats removed from the reserved category. When
such attempt failed, they tried to derail the electoral process
itself by preventing dalits from filing nominations. If dalits
managed to file their papers, they were not allowed to campaign in
non dalit areas. Nondalits also resorted to poll boycott and even
used force to scare away dalits from polling booths. Caste-Hindu
resistance continued after the elections. In several places,
nondalits refused to cooperate with the elected dalit presidents and
ward members and humiliated them with the tacit approval of
caste-Hindu government officials.

Besides Paappapatti and
Keerippatti, elections to two more panchayats reserved for dalits,
Nattamanglalam in Madurai district and Kottakachiyendal in
Virudunagar district could not be held in 1996 and October 2001
because of opposition from the predominant caste-Hindu group in the
villages – piranmalaikkallars (a subcaste among thevars)^⁶.

M.Puliangudi is a Village
situated in Cuddalore District in Tamilnadu. This village has a
population of around 3000 in which about 300 people are Dalits and
the remaining population belongs to Vanniyar community. Vanniyars are
the landed population and regarded as OBC in Tamil Nadu. The Dalits
have to come for everything to the Vanniyar area. The shops are all
owned by the Vanniyars. The double tumbler practice is still there
and other forms of untouchability are still in practice. All the
Dalits depend on the Vanniyars for livelihood. There have been
several incidents of conflicts within the village on account of
breaking the liquor brewing pots set up by Vanniars. The village
panchayat is held in the Vanniyars' living area. Even if there is any
dispute between the Dalits, it will be tried in the Vanniyars' area.
There were also incidents of Vanniyars raping Dalit women and
adolescent girls. Since Dalits were very few in numbers, they were
submissive to all these violent incidents.

The pillar in memory of the
people who gave their lives during the clashes between Dalits and
Vanniyars is a symbolic witness of the oppression by the Vanniyars
for the past several years. The pillar says it symbolically
represents the peace between both the communities. The Dalit leaders
claim that within the past two years in the district of cuddalore
itself there were 20 Dalits killed and in none of the cases proper
justice was done to the victims. Although there is clear evidence in
all the cases that, there is an involvement of arrack brewers from
the Vanniars side, rarely they are arrested. The killing of three
Dalits in the village of M.Puliangudi should be seen in this
background. On 25th May 2000 Karthik a Vanniyar boy went into the
house where a Dalit girl was alone and raped her. The Women Sangha
leader Vasantha and others caught him red handed and asked him why he
had done like this. Then they took him to the Vanniyar area, met the
leaders and asked them to marry him to the Dalit girl. The Vanniyar
leaders asked for three days time so that they can decide and tell
them about the issue. Mean while at midnight on 26th May 2000 three
Dalit youths were killed in a very mysterious way^⁷.

In the late 1980s in
Chenaganambatti village in Madurai district, Tamil Nadu, 9.5 acres of
idle land belonging to a temple under the Hindu Religious Endowment
Act were auctioned and sold to villagers for cultivation. At the
time, some 500,000 acres of such idle land existed in Tamil Nadu.
Caste Hindus did not allow Dalits to take part in the auction. In
1989 Dalits began demanding participation and, in1992, finally
succeeded in entering the auction. Caste Hindus protested and
appealed to the commissioner of the Hindu Religious Endowment Act, a
central government official. The commissioner decreed that the lands,
once bought at auction, legally belonged to the Dalits. One month
later, and in broad daylight, one hundred members of the Kallar
community, an upper-caste group, invaded and destroyed nine acres of
paddy (rice) fields belonging to Dalits. In subsequent attacks, the
Kallars murdered two Dalit men and assaulted three Dalit women, who
sustained head injuries. As the leader of the Dalit Panthers movement
in Tamil Nadu recalled: They just cut their throat on the road even
though the land belongs to Dalits, they (the Dalit owners) cannot
plow it, even today. The accused were never punished. No trial took
place^⁸.

Intellectuals living outside
Tamil Nadu imagine that the dalits and the Backward Castes here are
living in harmony. This is the image that has been created by
Dravidian intellectuals conversant with English. However the ground
reality is quite the opposite.

This has led to a more
fundamental question: why are Upper OBCs not adequately represented
in institutions of higher learning? Are they socially stigmatized? Do
they lack resources? Have they been prevented from entering better
schools? Even a frail mind would answer in the negative. Consider
the consequences. In the recent Mandal II agitation, India's two
leading news channels - NDTV and CNN-IBN, decided to do
pro-reservation stories. One way to showcase the value of reservation
was to profile achievers who had once used this privilege at the
entry point in education and jobs. Without any exception, all the
stories featured Dalit achievers, though Mandal II deals with Upper
OBCs alone. There is a history behind this. During upper OBCs
anti-Brahmin movement in Tamil Nadu, sufferings of Dalits were
highlighted to morally legitimize their voices. When the Upper OBC
movement in northern India begun replicating the Tamil experience,
here too Dalits' suffering were highlighted. How the Upper OBCs have
been treating Dalits in return?

Sd/
Sd/

Brundaban
Mishra

1
Beteille, Andre, 1969, Castes Old and New: Essays in Social
Structure and Social Stratification, Bombay: Asia Publishing House,
pg. 176.

2
Washbrook, D.A., 1977, The Emergence of Provincial Politics: The
Madras Presidency, 1870-1920, New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House, pg.
279.

3
S. Viswanathan, Dalit in Dravidland(2005) this book is compiled from
the reports of Human Right Watch and Frontline, Navayana Pub.,
Pundicherry, pg. xi-xii.

4
S. Viswanathan, Dalit in Dravidland(2005), this book is compiled
from the reports of Human Right Watch and Frontline, Navayana Pub.,
Pundicherry, pg. xxiii-xxxvii.

5
S. Viswanathan, Dalit in Dravidland(2005), this book is compiled
from the reports of Human Right Watch and Frontline, Navayana Pub.,
Pundicherry, pg. 101.

6
S. Viswanathan, Dalit in Dravidland(2005), this book is compiled
from the reports of Human Right Watch and Frontline, Navayana Pub.,
Pundicherry, pg.198-202,215-216.

7
As appeared in Human Rights Forum for Dalit Liberation, Villupuram,
http://www.ambedkar.org/News/hl/Brutal%20Murder.htm.

8
The Context of Caste Violence, Broken People, Caste Violence Against
India’s Untouchables, Published by Human Right Watch,
Washington, 1999. http://www.hrw.org/reports/1999/india/

YFE Pamphlet 12.10.2008

2008-10-13T04:23:00.000+05:30

YOUTH
FOR EQUALITY

12.10.08

DISOWN BY MY OWN COUNTRY?

What
kind of a nation disowns its own people? What kind of country decides
that genius costs too much? That hard work and good performance does
not hold much water? Which country made caste as the sole criteria to
judge everything? The general category student has made turbulent
peace with the fact that Indian political class will never
appreciates their performance and they are hell-bent to divide the
society to get more votes.

All
the backward categories students have been accommodated in various
hostels of JNU immediately after their admission through various
quotas. This is the second kind of preferential treatment they all
have got within a short span of 15-20 days.

Contrary
to that, even 2^nd ranker students of various centres in
JNU belonging to general category have still to find a place in the
hostel! They are now moving from pillar to post to maintain their
admission in JNU. They are being punished for their performance in
the entrance exam where they have maintained extra-ordinary lead!
What crime these newly admitted students, who outperformed the rest,
have done? Who is there to speak for them? Possibly their horrifying
tale of sub-ordination by non other than the least performers is a
joy for the campus communists! The communists feel sadistic pleasure
when general category students suffer the most despite his/her best
performance! The administration is also not lagging far behind to
humiliate the general category students! One after another JNU
officials beating their breast in the media saying how they have
provided hostel facilities and double quota to all the backward
category students. Social justice is now a fashion and only one
section of the society – the so called branded backward –
deserve social justice in our country. Neither the JNU administration
nor the JNUSU utter a single word for the general category students
at any forum. The general category students never opposed the social
justice programme of the JNU or the communists! What they like to
tell loud and clear is that they must not be pushed to the margin for
no convincing reason. They have also the right to avail the rightful
share in all the facilities and no power can deter them to avail the
same.

CAN A SOCIETY EXCEL BY
HUMILIATING ITS GENIUS?

The
government in collaboration with the caste based leaders making
mechanical policies for the downtrodden without properly identifying
who the downtrodden exactly are! They have been doing this with total
contempt for the performers and excellence of any institution. They
are now shy to take lesson from history. To introduce the people of a
country in machine ways is a brutal business. Ambition and greed and
hurt and passion can do away with reason. Germany, with a great 19th
century roll call of philosophers and scholars, scientists,
mathematicians and astronomers somehow lost the 20th century. And in
the beginning of that century, Russia with a great developing
civilization, yet politically unbalanced, committed suicide. Iran in
1979 rejected the Shah and more profoundly turning away from the new
and the worrying finding in the recesses of its mind and heart an
unshakable nostalgia of certainties and ecstasies of its religion.
Nostalgia also came upon Japan after the pain and striving of Naigee
Tang.

All
these countries have their own story of suffering for neglecting
their individuals and institutions of eminence. India cannot be
assessed on the rate of growth and mechanical policy alone. In our
own Bengal the beginning of the century 20^th century had
such a great life. Bengal was the economic and intellectual leader of
India for more than a 100 years. Then as an aspect of being dazzled
by itself, it discovered Marxism and like poor Russia in 1917,
committed suicide. The economic lead of Bengal has vanished and so
has the cultural lead. Politics later swamped that life. What should
have been a flame in the independent is now only a flicker. In fact
if we go by the experience of some other countries, increasing
general wealth might start laying bare many of the conflicting
nostalgia and sources of old pain that poverty and subjection kept
half covered up.

TESTING TIME

The
air is now pestilential and it must be clear of suffocating particles
without any delay. We must oppose this gross injustice and we must
ensure the rule of law. We have to raise voice for a rational campus
and rational nation together. Youth For Equality is committed to this
philosophy and seeks support of all.

YFE Pamphlet 10.10.2008

2008-10-11T04:19:00.000+05:30

YOUTH
FOR EQUALITY

10.10.08

Students Union and
Students Plight

The
JNUSU is visible when and where there are non-students issues come!
JNUSU feel proud to raise workers wage issue; it again feels very
much concerned to oppose the Indo-US nuclear deal; still it feels its
duty to oppose the TATA in Singoor. Not a single issue related to
students has even been addressed neither by the current JNUSU nor its
predecessor. The reason of such act is simple – use JNU and JNU
students as a medium and platform for establishing oneself within the
mainstream corrupt political parties. While doing so they are
compromising the interest of the students and the university. It is
now time to debate what is the use of such puppet student body, which
cannot even utter a word of its own! When there will be student
centric and sensitive students take the place of

If
you have qualification,
& if Government have a job,
&
No other suitable candidate is there ........................

Still
You Will Not Get The Job.......

Letter to the Vice Chancellor

2008-01-27T19:02:00.000+05:30

YOUTH FOR EQUALITY

To,

Prof. B.B. Bhattacharya

Vice-Chancellor

Jawaharlal Nehru University

New Delhi – 110067

(Request to stop OBC Reservation at the Post-Graduation level as it is Contempt of the Supreme Court Order)

Dear Sir,

Keeping aside all the formalities we the students of this university sit down to write and request you to interfere in an important policy matter recently imposed by the Union Human Resource Development Ministry on our university. The Resolution No. 1-1/ 2005-U.1A/846 dated 20th April, 2008 of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Department of Higher Education asking for the implementation of the OBC reservation in our university, especially at the Master Degree level and beyond, is a blatant transgression of the Hon’ble Supreme Court Order delivered on 10^th of April 2008.

The Supreme Court Order is categorical on the above subject. The majority judgment as Justice Bhandari said “once a candidate graduates from a university, the said candidate is educationally forward and is ineligible for special benefits under Article 15(5) of the Constitution for post graduate and any further studies thereafter.” Subsequently Justice Pasayat and Justice Thackker said “While determining backwardness, graduation (not technical graduation) or professional shall be the standard test yardstick for measuring backwardness.”

The bench further said which applied to us and we quote from Justice Pasayat and Justice Thackker’s judgment “the Central Government shall examine as to the desirability of fixing a cut off marks in respect of the candidates belonging to the Other Backward Classes (OBCs). By way of illustration it can be indicated that five marks grace can be extended to such candidates below the minimum eligibility marks fixed for general categories of students. This would ensure quality and merit would not suffer. The philosophy and pragmatism of universal excellence through equality of opportunity for education and advancement across the nation is part of the constitutional creed. It is, therefore, the best and most meritorious students that must be selected for admission to technical institutions and medical colleges and no citizen can be regarded as outsider in the constitutional set-up without serious detriment to the `unity and integrity' of the nation. The Supreme Court has laid down that so far as admissions to post graduate course such as MS, MD and the like are concerned, it would be imminently desirable not to provide for any reservation based on residence or institutional preference. The need of a region or institution cannot prevail at the highest scale of specialty where the best skill or talent must be hand-picked by selecting them according to capability. At the level of Ph.D., M.D. or levels of higher proficiency where international measure of talent is made, where losing one great scientist or technologist in the making is a national loss, the considerations we have expanded upon as important, lose their potency.” Justice Bhandari said “In the case of higher education, the universities that admit the best will likely churn out the best. The point is that universities alone cannot produce qualified job candidates. Forced to admit students with lower marks, the university's final product will not be as strong. I urge the Government to set OBC cut off marks no lower than 10 marks below that of the general category.”

We consider the highly qualified Professors handling the administration of this university are enlightened soul and need no guidance to apply their own intelligence. Through this letter we like to inform you that the Hon’ble Supreme Court’s Order is one parameter/direction (to which the whole nation, including our university is bound to obey) and the HRD Ministry’s order is another parameter/direction comes out of political/executive connivance. The HRD Ministry’s order is meant to accommodate political interest of the party at the helms of affairs and is subject to challenge of the court.

Sir, in our final submission we like to make it clear that the slightest violation of the Supreme Court Order may attract series of “Contempt Petition” in the name of the university as well as administrators. This situation is avoidable through the application of our intelligence. This is what precisely the student community of the university and the country expected from JNU.

Sincerely yours,

Copy to: 1) Saroj Rath, Ph.D., SIS

Prof. Yashpal, Chancellor, JNU 2) Manpreet Kaur, Ph.D., SBT

3) Brundaban Mishra, Ph.D, SSS

Prof. Rajendra Prasad, Rector, JNU 4) Vikram Singh, Ph.D., SIT

5) Deepika Singh, Ph.D., SIS

6) Gagan Jhingan, Ph.D, SES

Enclosure:

1) Supreme Court Order

(delivered on 10^th April 2008)

http://www.judis.nic.in/supremecourt/qrydisp.aspx?filename=31230

http://www.judis.nic.in/supremecourt/qrydisp.aspx?filename=31231

http://www.judis.nic.in/supremecourt/qrydisp.aspx?filename=31232

http://www.judis.nic.in/supremecourt/qrydisp.aspx?filename=31253

http://courtnic.nic.in/supremecourt/temp/wc%2026506p.txt

2) HRD Ministry’s Order

(No. 1-1/ 2005-U.1A/846 dated 20th April, 2008)

Cultural Day 26th January 2008

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YOUTH FOR EQUALITY

is organizing

cultural day

on 26^th January 2008

to celebrate the 59^th Republic Day of India

If you want to perform in any of the following categories (solo/group):

Singing, Dancing, Play, Mimicry, Instrumental etc.

Register yourself latest by 24^th January 8:00 pm

For further details,

Contact: Brundaban Mishra (9868096337), Kumar Abhijeet (9910236720), Swasti Rao (9953433908), Amit Ranjan (9818674016)

email: nday.yfejnu@gmail.com

N.B. There will be an screening on 25^th January

JNUSU 2007: Vote Couting has started - UPDATES

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Polling began at 9am on November 2, 2007 for JNUSU elections. Total 3774 out of about 5000 students casted their votes.

YFE has won all councillor positions in five out of 10 schools:

School of Information technology (SIT)
School of Biotechnology (SBT)
School of Life Sciences (SLS)
School of Physical Sciences (SPS)
School of Computer System and Sciences (SCSS)

Congralutations to the winning candidates.

Out of total 31 Councillor position in various schools (Last updated 1 am, Nov 4, 2007)

Youth for Equality – 09

AISA- 07

SFI- 06

ABVP- 04

NSUI- 03

Independent – 01

FINAL RESULTS:

Central Panel Status : (last updated 6:46 am Nov 4 , 2007)

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Sandeep (AISA)- 1218

YFE Candidate for President BABITA SHARMA –924 Votes

Dhananjay (SFI) - 869

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Shefalika (AISA)- 1077

YFE Candidate for Vice President SUJEET KUMAR – 764 Votes

Roshan (SFI) -775

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Pallavi (AISA)- 1029

YFE Candidate for General Secretary SWASTI RAO- 927 Votes

Fauzan (SFI) - 779

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Mobeen (AISA)- 933

YFE Candidate for Joint Secretary KUMAR ABHIJEET - 870 Votes

Sejuti (SFI) - 895

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Heartiest congratulations to YFE candidates for their magnificent performance!! Many thanks to the JNU people for the support.

Casteist SFI has been reduced to ashes

Long live student unity!

Long live YFE!

Congratulations to all the winning candidates.

YFE has strong position in JNUSU elections

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Source HT November 3, 2007

Poll-eve clash breaks out in JNU in the name of Ram

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Source: The Telegraph, Nov 2, 2007

New Delhi, Nov. 1: Jawaharlal Nehru University is simmering with tension on the eve of student polls after a Dalit candidate’s remark on Ram triggered an attack by members of the BJP’s youth wing.

Two students from the anti-quota group, Youth for Equality, were injured as Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) members started throwing stones and chairs at presidential nominees during a pre-poll debate.

(Photo on left: Sujeet Kumar, Vice Presidential candidate YFE)

Three security personnel were also injured in the fracas that saw police enter the campus. No arrests have been made yet.

The injured were admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences last night but were released this morning.

The Youth for Equality has called for the dismissal from tomorrow’s polls candidates of the ABVP and the Bahujan Samaj Front, whose nominee made the alleged remark.

The JNU election commission consisting of nine students, has, however, decided to let the Bahujan front and the ABVP off with warnings.

The Bahujan front has also been asked to send a written apology to “all those whose religious sentiments may have been hurt” by the comment.

The CPM-backed Student’s Federation of India and the CPI(ML)-supported All India Student’s Association have called the incident a “stunt” orchestrated by the ABVP to shift the agenda to “communal politics”.

The presidential debate — a tradition in JNU where nominees for the post from various groups face questions from the university’s students — was peaceful, though characteristically noisy, till around 12.45 in the night.

As Raghuvansh Prasad Saket, the Bahujan front’s candidate, took the microphone to field questions, ABVP activists asked for his opinion on Ram.

The BSF, the student body of Mayavati’s Bahujan Samaj Party, had made some comments on Ram during campaigning as well. Promptly turning in the direction of the questions, Saket allegedly made the controversial remark.

The ABVP sympathisers started throwing chairs and stones at the dais where the candidates were sitting.

Babita Sharma, a Youth for Equality candidate, said she was struck by a brick and fell down unconscious.

Sujeet Kumar, the group’s vice-presidential candidate, was hit on an arm he had fractured a while ago.

“ABVP supporters deliberately asked provocative questions and the BSF candidate, Saket, was also irresponsible in his answer. The nominations of candidates from both groups should be cancelled,” Prakash Dash, the Youth for Equality’s JNU spokesperson, said.

The ABVP is planning to file a criminal case against Saket and other BSF members for making the inflammatory statements.

“We (ABVP) are asked questions on Godhra and the violence that followed. We reply taking care that we don’t hurt anyone’s sentiments. Our questions were legitimate,” Amit Singh, the ABVP’s presidential candidate, said.

Source: HT Nov 2, 2007

India's finest ad filmmaker Prahlad Kakkar campaigning for YFE in JNUSU election 2007

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Journey of YFE....

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Students, citizens and professionals of different shades were involved in various campaigns before the Youth For Equality appeared on the scene in May 2006. These campaigns were reform in education, justice for all, protest against the criminalization of politics, and campus oriented problems to make India vibrant. On April 4, 2006 a perfect storm was gathering in the student circle all over India when HRD Ministry, Government of India announced 27% OBC Reservation in Centrally funded educational institutions. The Youth For Equality formed and gradually the organization has taken shapes larger than the ambit of Reservation and challenged the reservation policy scientifically. Youth For Equality is an all India organization encompassing men and women of all walks of life irrespective of caste, creed, class, religion and region. It draws its strength from its large support base mainly from the youth and students of India along with all the responsible citizen of the country. The educated, sensible and law abiding citizens of India showing their unrestrained enthusiasm and support for Youth For Equality by each passing day.
We aim at Casteless society i.e. society where there is no discrimination on the basis of birth mark. Education for All with special emphasis on women and children education. Good Governance Sensitive, honest, transparent, pro-people governance. Employment opportunity for the all the needy people. The Gandhian model of employment, where a delicate balance of man and machine, must be followed as India is a populous country. Health for all in a healthy environment. Develop and consolidate a feeling of National Unity among people irrespective of religion, caste or province. Promote and nurture excellence to make India a superpower.

Major events that marked our presence:

April-May 2006- Month long protest and agitation. 13th May 2006 - MUMBAI: Peacefully protesting Students had beaten up by police....SHAME! SHAME! We all know what happened at Mumbai on 13th May. We saw it on our TV sets, read it in the papers, heard it on radio. We are all deeply anguished and our blood boiled when we saw scenes of how the Mumbai students were being beaten up. 13th May - In New Delhi few meters away from the Rashtrapati Bhawan and a stone throwing distance from the Prime Minister’s Office on 9th of May 2006 water cannon spread on the medical students with a speed prohibited by the United Nations Human Rights Commission and World Health Organization. In Mumbai, the city’s medical students sitting on a protest march at the road heading towards the Governor’s residence. On 12th of May 2006 they were beaten black and blue by policemen as if the medical students are dreaded criminal. The clear footage on the electronic media can make a country shame and can make one mistake that if they were watching the Tiananmen Square brutality live. The hunger strike has been joined by students of IIT, JNU and DU among others.
We were joined by various organizations and students all across India, and the movement against reservations and populist policies grew in strength with each passing day. 19th May – Huge rally organized by YFE in JNU. During the countrywide agitation the Government under pressure from students and people from all sections of society agreed to talk with the agitating students. First a three members committee comprising three senior cabinet ministers Shri Pranab Mukherjee, Shri P. Chidambaram and Shri Arjun Singh and then Dr. Manmohan Singh talked to the representatives of Youth For Equality. Youth For Equality representative placed the Charter of Demands before the Government. 22nd May - The Hon'ble Defense Minister in an official meeting assured that the general category seats in any particular institute shall not be reduced and quota shall be implemented in a phased manner as and when seats increase. He declined to address the main issue of formation of an expert commission for review of the whole reservation policy. 23rd May - The UPA government had a meeting with the left parties and a politically motivated press release issued. Which stated that the percentage of reservation for OBC was fixed at 27% and that it would be implemented from the academic session 2007 in one goes? 26th May - Negotiations held at the highest level with the Prime Minister who assured (verbally) that there would not be any reduction in the number of general category seats in each institute and reservation for OBCs in higher institutions would not be implemented till such increase in total seats was not carried out.. He also said that he would look into the setting up of the expert commission.
A purported, unsigned and undated statement was given to the students on behalf of the Government of India by the Health Secretary which did not address any of the demands of students and medicos. 27th May - Despite the assurances of the Prime Minister, the HRD Minister announced that the policy for reservation for OBCs in higher education etc would l be implemented w.e.f. academic year 2007 and would not be in graded manner. He declined the set up of the expert commission.

After this announcement by HRD Minister, the Government (i.e. Health Secretary) announced that he has written letters to some institutes to ascertain as to whether they can increase the seats so that general category seats were not reduced. This information was sought from these institutes till 15.6.2006.

29th May - The highest court of the Country intervened and directed the medicos to call of the strike. At the same time the Court candidly asked the Government: 1) What is the basis for the determination/classification as to who belongs to "Other Backward Class",2) The Modalities to be adopted for implementation of the policy in question.YFE, JNU started the historic hunger strike at the Admn Block and continued for 33 long days.
27th May 2006 – Huge YFE Rally at the Ram Leela Ground at New Delhi - Navjyot Singh Sidhu, Shiv Khera, Joginder Singh and Prof. P.V. Indiresan addressed the gathering and ignited the passion in youth present from every part of India. It is from the platform of this rally several institutions of India announced to organize hunger strike in their respective institute. JNU and IIT-Delhi were prominent among others. 9th November 2006 – YFE Contested the JNU Student Union Elections - What kind of a nation disowns its own people? What kind of country decides that genius costs too much? That merit does not hold much water and that caste is the only and sole criteria to judge everything? JNU is considered as the bastion of left politics. But the left also shunned the CLASS and adopted CASTE as their identity to save their vote bank. Considering all the pros and cons we the Youth For Equality, JNU Chapter decided to contest the JNUSU election. The JNU election offered many surprises. The YFE maintained lead in all the four Central Penal posts viz. President (Sonika Tyagi), Vice-President (Brundaban Mishra), General Secretary (Upasana Dhankar) and Joint Secretary (Babita Sharma) till the near end of the counting when the left parties snatched the victory from the mouth of YFE. YFE lost the 2006 election with a narrow margin and waiting for another day to prevail. The Youth For Equality is honored and overwhelmed with the massive support of the JNU student.

5th February 2007 – YFE Contested 1 Seats in the BruhanMumbai Municipal Election - The Youth For Equality always believe in action. Sanjeet Shukla, a 23-year-old law student of Mithibai College and the sole candidate fielded by Youth For Equality (YFE) has become a hit with Sion voters for the BruhanMumbai Muncipal Election. The YFE’s popularity has the Congress worried. The party has decided to sideline its incumbent councilor, Babubhai Bhawanji, by fielding Upendra Doshi, general secretary of the Mumbai Regional Congress Committee, to take on YFE candidate Sanjeet Shukla. The outcome of the election was also impressive as the YFE secured 4th position and garnered good number of votes. 10th April 2007 – YFE Contested 3 Seats in the Delhi Municipal Election - Youth For Equality, during the Delhi Municipal Corporation elections tried to prove the point that “participation not refrainment” is the answer. A conscious decision was taken to contest the DMC election and three candidates were filed from three different constituencies. Dr. Sanjay Rajput contested from Kasturba Nagar (South Delhi), Pradeep Jha from Mukherjee Nagar(North Delhi) and Dr. P. Joshi from East-Rohtas Nager (Shahdara). Students from JNU, DU and AIIMS along with others campaigned vigorously for all the three candidates. In all the three constituencies YFE candidates surprised the political pandits when they secured 3rd position only after the two national parties BJP and Congress. Jan-Feb 2007 – YFE Convinced Leading Lawyers of India to argue against the OBC Quota - The Youth For Equality spearheaded widespread unrest across the country to oppose the illogical and unscientific OBC reservation policy. YFE representatives met nearly 700 dignitaries which includes members of Mandal Commission (2nd Backward Classes Commission) and Kaka Kalelkar Commission (1st Backward Classes Commission) to build up the cases against the OBC reservation policy of the Government. All the senior lawyers of legal profession which includes Senior Advocates Late L.M. Singhvi, Ad. Harish Shalve, Ad. Fali S. Nariman, Ad. Ashok Desai, Ad. P.P. Rao, Ad. Rajeev Dhawan, Ad. K.K. Venugopal, Ad. Mukul Rahtogi and Ad. Indu Malhotra to take the cases at the Supreme Court. 29th March 2007 – SC Stayed the OBC Reservation Bill - In a landmark Order the Hon’able Supreme Court on 29th of March 2007 stayed the OBC reservation act passed by the Parliament. The Bench of Justices Arijit Pasayat and L S Panta delivered the verdict on the batch of petitions filed by Youth For Equality through various organizations and individuals challenging the decision as being ultra vires (unconstitutional). Keeping the petitions in mind, the Bench stated that Section 6 of the Constitution was not applicable since no data on OBCs has been collected in the last 76 years. 17th May 2007 – SC REFERRED THE OBC QUATA CASE TO LARGER BENCH - The Supreme Court on 17th of May 2006 referred the issue of 27% reservation for OBCs in central educational institutions to a larger Bench.

YFE’s rural contact programme covered 2000 villages to create awareness about the government’s deceit and deception. YFE’s struggle generated debate, tact, talk and financial engineering for the entire nation to increase educational infrastructure. Not a single medical or engineering seat has been increased in the history of independent India despite the large increase of student ratio. It is because of Youth For Equality there is now provision for massive increase of seats. YFE protest forced the national government to offer a whopping Rs. 224 Crores for JNU alone to increase infrastructure as recommended by Moily Committee. The YFE struggles successfully to CSIR-UGC Fellowship! And also exposed what the leftist have done in one year – beached the trust of the students and accepted lower amount and unacceptable date for the release of UGC sponsored Scholarship. The YFE protest prompted the UPA government (where left is also a part) established Knowledge Commission to recommend 1500 new colleges (professional/Vocational) and 300 new Universities to be established in India. The YFE’s agenda includes running schools for the deprived in DU and in Kanpur, Running of Hospitals in Delhi and in IIT- Kanpur, Enlightening the society in Mumbai through the initiative called Doctors For You, fighting the case against irrational reservation at the Supreme Court, making presentation in front of the Minority Commission for the education of the Minorities, taking part with the landless tribals in the Janadesh Rally now in Delhi, fighting castiesm inside the campus as well as at work place and endeavoring to end poverty by the year 2015 in collaboration with the Art of Living-United Nation Millennium Campaign.

Hemant Kumar Nidhi Singh
Chief Campaign Coordinator YFE Representative

Single Point Agenda of YFE can equal the fraudulent multi-points agenda of leftist, rightist or centrist!!

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The saying of Faiz Ahmed Faiz “Pal bhar ko amar, pal bhar main dhuan”, which means ‘they can make a moment eternal, they can be smoke in a moment’ would have reminiscent to Youth For Equality! A single point agenda for which Youth For Equality is fighting – accused our critics! How naïve – they failed to see what the Single Point Agenda have done to the nation even if we accept for a moment, for the satisfaction of our critics, that we act as they accused!

The single point agenda generated debate, tact, talk and financial engineering for the entire nation to increase educational infrastructure.
Not a single medical or engineering seat has been increased in the history of independent India despite the large increase of student ratio. It is because of Youth For Equality there is now provision for massive increase of seats.
The single point agenda of YFE forced the national government to offer a whopping Rs. 224 Crores for JNU alone to increase infrastructure. Not a single pie the shameless leftist or the treacherous rightist or centrist ever generated for our own university.
The single point agenda proved without any doubt that what the Youth and Student of the nation can do once determined to do. The YFE restrained the entire political class inside the campus and outside to implement the irrational OBC reservation policy.
The single point agenda pushed the established leftist inside the campus to the margin and told them in action – look what we have done in one year – increase in CSIR-UGC Fellowship! And also exposed what the leftist have done in one year – beached the trust of the students and accepted lower amount and unacceptable date for the release of UGC sponsored Scholarship.
The protest of YFE prompted the UPA government (where left is also a part) established Knowledge Commission to recommend 1500 new colleges (professional/Vocational) and 300 new Universities to be established in India.
The single point agenda includes running schools for the deprived in DU and in Kanpur, Running of Hospitals in Delhi and in IIT- Kanpur, Enlightening the society in Mumbai through the initiative called Doctors For You, fighting the case against irrational reservation at the Supreme Court, making presentation in front of the Minority Commission for the education of the Minorities, taking part with the landless tribals in the Janadesh Rally now in Delhi, fighting castiesm inside the campus as well as at work place and endeavoring to end poverty by the year 2015 in collaboration with the Art of Living-United Nation Millennium Campaign.

Even a frail mind can say without any difficulty that the single point agenda of Youth For Equality can equal the fraudulent multi-points agenda of leftist, rightist or centrist– which are the same for every year. They know that YFE’s single agenda is worth following. Strangely the communists are criticizing the YFE terming as castiest force!! Who is supporting Caste based reservation?? Who is working overtime to justify caste as class?? And who is betraying the Marx – taking class struggle to caste struggle?? The answer is the very communist forces of the campus!!

Few questions come to the mind of an average JNUite – why Left supporting caste? Why the left supporting reservation for creamy layer?? Why Bengal is having 15% OBC reservation instead of the 27%?

The Gujrat pogrom was a blot on humanity, so was the 1984 Sikh riots, Godhra Train Burning, Nandigram Massacre and Naxalism supported by the communists. YFE advocates for strong action against the perpetrators of those inhuman acts and feel that punishment is the only way to contain such incident in the future. Where ever there is a politician involved in mass crime they are getting scot-free because of their political maneuverability. This criminalization of politics and politicization of criminals must be stopped so the riots, act of terrorism as well as state sponsored terrorism.

Everybody knows how Chandan Mitra behaves inside the Parliament! He was one of the four righteous persons along with P.C. Alexandar, Prabhat Joshi and Rahul Bajaj to vote against the OBC reservation bill. Where the left was then not to ask how he can defy BJP as he is a BJP sponsored MP!! For the information of leftist it must be told that Mr. Mitra was a leftist as his profile say in the website and YFE feel he is a real leftist supported by the BJP. We are proud that he has already addressed YFE rally in the past and silenced the left inside the campus. YFE is not responsible or have any control to Mr. Mitra’s every act or behavior as he is an editor! We bye the notion of Bengal Chief Minister on globalization and that does not mean we are agree with his Nandigram massacre.

How come the ABVP ask question to YFE?? What happened to their Ram Mandir issue despite spending and salivating six long years in the power?? What happened to Uniform Civil Code?? What happened to the Nuclear Deal as the Next Step to Strategic Partnership was only started by Mr. Jaswant Singh and Mr. Brajesh Mishra?? If you spit towards the sun it will drop in your face only! The sun will remain as powerful and unaffected as before! Better it is to respect the sun! YFE is more than what it appears to the left and right!!

Hemant Kumar Deepika Singh
Chief Campaign Coordinator YFE Representative

“Likewise when in the present system the majority of the deprived classes are being deprived from availing benefits of reservation in jobs and in education few castes accruing major percentages of the benefits meant for the entire deprived classes. And even within these few castes the entire benefit is being accrued by few families of those few castes. The rest of the population of those particular castes remained behind because the persons who once got the benefit of reservation improved their education, social and economic condition and become powerful compared to their fellow brethren so the other people who are still to get the benefits of reservation lagging behind in the competition with those who already availed the benefits. When some families are fully capable to avail the benefits of reservations and other concessions at the same time the rest of the population of the same castes become more backward. In this way the benefits of reservations and other concessions concentrated within few families only. These dynastic beneficiaries of reservations grossly hurt the welfare of other castes. Deprived persons and families become more deprived because of intra-competition within the same castes. The committee also recommends that the abovementioned reservation system to be operationalized by the government should not be made a permanent feature and there must be an evaluation of the effect of such system in every 5 years and if necessary changes must be made in the reservation system.” Report of the Social Justice Committee Constituted by the UP Government, 31.08.2001.

YFE Pamphlet 28.10.2007: Foreign Students Issues

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“Jawaharlal Nehru University is not a foreign student friendly campus and survival is purely on the mercy of god” said a Middle East Student while talking about her experience as a foreign student in JNU.

‘I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.’ So said Seneca, the philosopher. India and Indians never shy of foreigners! They have always treated them with kindness. The philosophy ‘Atithi Devo Bhavah’ has never been an out of context phrase. Kings, Emperors, Sultans and national governments arranged foreign alike situation whenever there was an important foreign dignitary. King Harsh Vardhana himself presented all the Chinese comfort to Huen Tsang. These are the ingredients which attract foreigners to come to India and get imbibed with the civilization. The adverse climatic condition and over population has never been deterrence for the foreigners. Then what is the deterrence – if any? The answer is very strange and full of shame! Administrative apathy and insensitive civil society are the stuff to defame India through the plight of foreign students in JNU. The student union as well as student bodies are equally responsible for this.
Imagine – * there is no eatery, literally, for foreign student to eat inside the campus. There is total absence of food for these brand ambassadors. How can they survive? Does it mean they must live without fooding inside the campus to study? The Indian food in the hostel mess is really a tough option for them. Worse is outside eateries inside the campus. The results are – amoebiasis, stomach ache and digestive disorder which leads to may other related disease. The first few months of the foreign students is normally meant for spoiling their health and then correcting it. This is the way of JNU welcomes its scholars and students.

Why don’t we provide an intercontinental fooding stall for our foreign student friends??

No information is provided on behalf of the University for the Foreign Student to follow the Do’s and Don’ts. Jaundice, Malaria, Dengue and other dust-related diseases are foreign to these foreign students in their own country. In the absence of any information regarding these diseases the foreign students are vulnerable to these diseases as they do not take any precaution. Why the JNU administrations not giving any information leaflet to the foreign student mentioning regarding these deadly disease and how it can be avoided??
Indian system of publishing result is very notorious. Students across the country have to wait for months and years to know their result. JNU is following some strict regulation to publish result but not before waiting for at least a couple of months and here lays the problem. Indian student can wait not the foreigners! Their Visa expired immediately after the completion of their course! Their engagement in their home country is very much time bound and cannot wait for months. Their next academic engagement in their home country is suffering because of this delay. Cannot JNU issue provisional certificate immediately after the completion of the course to the foreign students?? Worse there is no information or initiative on the part of the University to extend the Visa. Foreign students have to travel from pillar to post to locate Foreign Regional Registration Office (FRRO), Home Ministry and Hospital to extend their Visa just to wait for the result!
Many foreign students are coming from poor countries and they are like very much the Indian students and not funded by rich sponsoring agencies. To help them out, the university has instituted a Fee Waiver Committee. But facing this committee on the part of any foreign student is a nightmare! The attitude and behavior of this committee is very much arrogant and they issue racial comments to the foreign students to discourage them to apply. The committees trademark suggestion and opinion is ‘why are you here when you cannot fund your education??’ Foreign Students prefer hardship to face this committee. JNU must be sensitized to this issue without any delay.
JNU signed seventy one (71) Memoranda Of Understanding with this much of foreign university. But the unwritten maxim for those students coming from these universities and from others is ‘while in JNU you are at your own’.

Who will take care of these unfortunate foreign students? Why they have been disowned by the very university which is recruiting them? This is the reason the international rank of JNU is controversial. Youth For Equality is committed to the valid concerns of foreign students. Let’s work together to make JNU a better place for everybody including the foreigners.

CENTRAL PANEL
BABITA SHARMA – PRESIDENT SUJEET KUMAR – VICE PRESIDENT
SWASTI RAO - GENERAL SECRETARY KUMAR ABHIJEET – JT. SECRETARY

PUBLIC MEETING TONIGHT
SPEAKERS
1 – DR. BHURE LAL, MEMBER, UNION PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION (ALSO FORMER SECRETARY TO TWO FORMER PRIME MINISTERS OF INDIA)
2 – DR. (MS.) SUNITA NARAYAN, DIRECTOR, CENTRE FOR SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT
VENUE: Godavari Mess, TIME: 9.30 PM

Hemant Kumar Neda Mirsamadi
Chief Campaign Coordinator YFE Representative

YFE for Basic Students Problems: Pamphlet 27.10.2007

2007-10-28T04:30:00.000+05:30

‘When you cannot convince, confuse them’! This is how the Indian political system is working and the Left parties of this campus mistaking that since the vibrant JNU campus is inside India, so vulnerable to the above maxim. They are practicing the same since long before every election with the lone aberration of last year when the Youth For Equality entered into the political fray. Since then the contour of political debate has taken towards a positive, constructive and student oriented angle! Even for issues of national importance the stand of Youth For Equality is actually making inroad towards the collective mind of the student community with sheer conviction.

Allegations have been leveled against the activities and achievements of Youth For Equality. The questions arises are what happened to the outgoing JNUSU office bearers? Who prevented them to take student friendly stand and agitation? Who opposed them not to demand increase in the number of CSIR and UGC scholarship for research scholars? And finally why they failed to convince the Vice-Chancellor of JNU to equalize the amount and date of release of the UGC sponsored Scholarship with that of the Rajiv Gandhi Scholarship to the student of JNU research scholar!

It is self evident that two lies cannot make or face one truth! Haqiqat wo khudnumai cheez hai, jisko na did-o-dad ki jarurat hoti hai, said Faiz Anwar Faiz, which means not exactly ‘truth does not require any audio-visualization’! And what is truth, the truth is CSIR and UGC are under Department of Science and Technology (DST) and Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD) respectively not the other way around. Who rule to whom or in other words who direct whom to follow the instruction? It is the parent organizations DST and MHRD in this case who direct their offshoots CSIR and UGC. And the official orders have already been produced through different notices including the YFE pamphlet of 25.10.07 how the demands have been met due to the persuasion of Youth For Equality. What is new the left force discovered! A line in the saying revision of fellowship is under active consideration and decision will be notified. What else one expect from the CSIR and was not it an achievement to force CSIR to consider and take a decision on the increase of number and amount of fellowship! Youth For Equality with all concerned students wonder if CSIR can defy the DST order! Everybody knows how government machinery functions and how long it may take to come to a final decision.

But the primary question is what the left forces have done during the last year? Much have been said about Youth For Equality, its work, achievements, claims and counter claims. What the JNUSU have done during the last whole year! What are the achievements they can publish in front of JNU community after one year say one, two, three in no uncertain terms! It was a scandalous session 2006-2007 passed when not a single student welfare oriented activity was undertaken by the JNUSU! It was hypocrisy on the part of the JNUSU to choose to work for workers of the campus at the cost of the student issues. No one have the slightest doubt that workers issue is also important but at what cost and what was the mandate for. And most importantly what happened to the workers for whom the left forces worked for the whole year! The question the student community wants to ask the outgoing JNUSU office bearers was: tell us the student issues you have addressed during the last one year? What happened to the election pledge of last year where you promised the implementation of OBC reservation also? Why have you accepted less amount and nearest date of releasing the scholarship for the UGC scholarship?

‘Caesars’ death is more powerful than Caesars life’. Youth For Equality have done things beyond the reach and comprehension of left forces like – blockage of irrational implementation of OBC reservation, increase of scholarship for research scholar both in CSIR and UGC to mention a few.

Sd/ Sd/
Hemant Kumar, Chief Campaign Coordinator Shikhar Jha, YFE representative

JNU Student Union Election 2007: Agenda and Central Panel Candidates

2007-10-28T04:05:00.000+05:30

The massive mandate given to Youth For Equality during the last year’s JNUSU election reposed a series of new responsibilities on the shoulder of Youth For Equality. During the last one year the growth of Youth For Equality inside the JNU campus was from strength to strength and visible every where. Youth For Equality fielded for all the four central panel posts of JNUSU. The contestants are as follows:

The Youth For Equality, JNU played vital role in the campus development activities and other student related issues. The struggle against the unequal scholarship provided by the JNU to its SCs/STs students and general category students was the most important one, which is still continue and to be continued till the objective of equal scholarship to SCs/STs and General Candidates is achieved.

The historic stay on 29 th of March 2007 to the OBC reservation by the Supreme Court of India was a product of Youth For Equality, JNU's handiwork in collaboration with other institutions of India.

JNU always take stand on issues of national as well as international importance. On the issue of Nuclear Deal with the US, the Youth For Equality, JNU Chapter believes that the deal is beneficial for the nation and should be inked with all safeguard. "As the world's largest democracy, India represents the hopes and aspirations of literally millions of people around the world, not just its own people, but beyond its own boundaries. A set of issues difficult for many in the Parliament of India to debate, and it certainly has been difficult for members of the Senate and House of Representatives to resolve".
The betrayal of left with whole JNU student community just happened before JNUSU election when they compromised with administration and did not utter a single word against administration, when It started giving UGC scholarship only from April 2007, however, in other central universities UGC scholarship is being implemented from 2006. It is youth for Equality who raise the voice and committed to make UGC Scholarship equal to Rajiv Gandhi Scholarship.

The other issues of Youth For Equality for the JNUSU election are:

* Revive democratic tradition of JNU and to restore the transparent system in administration and Education
* Implementation of UGC fellowship for MPhil and PhD students from 2005
* UGC scholarship must be equal to Rajiv Gandhi Fellowship for SC/ST, needs of all students are same so, why less amount for rest of students!
* More Students facilities in XI plan of JNU
* Students representation in Academic Council
* Accountable and responsible student union
* To restore the mechanism of justice and equal opportunity in university
* LAN and Wi-Fi facilities for entire campus
* 24 X 7 health facilities and full functional hospital
* Single window admission process and to availability of hostels at the time of admission
* Placement cells for each schools and a central placement cell must be established
* More efficient GSCASH, Grievance redress cell and to stop the politically motivated misuse these mechanism, which in practice by leftist against their opponent

Outside the campus in collaboration with its counterpart in AIIMS, DU, IIT and other medical colleges in Delhi and outside the JNU Youth For Equality played a vital role. YFE, JNU Chapter travelled Mumbai, Kanpur, Benaras, Bangalore and Bhopal to disseminate the ideas of Youth For Equality. This year's JNUSU election is going to be the election of YFE, we can say safely.

TOGETHER WE CAN, TOGETHER WE WILL!

JNUSU 2007: PUBLIC MEETING

2007-10-27T13:09:00.000+05:30

SPEAKERS

1 DR. HARIT CHATURVEDI, RAJIV GANDHI CANCER INSTITUTE AND RESEARCH CENTRE, NEW DELHI
(ALSO FORMER PRESIDENT OF KANPUR
MEDICAL COLLEGE AND A KNOWN SOCIAL ACTIVIST)
2 - MRS. SARITA BRAR, ALL INDIA RADIO, NEW DELHI
(THE MOST FAMOUS FACE AND NEWS ANALYST OF AIR)

VENUE: PERIAR MESS
TIME: 9.15 PM

FRIENDS, AFTER ONE OF THE BIGGEST GATHERING AT THE TAPTI MESS ON 25TH OF OCTOBER WHERE M.L. LAHOTY, PROF. PV INDIRESAN AND PROF. J.S. CHOKKAR SPOKEN THEIR MIND AND IGNITED THE MIND OF THE YFE, THE SECOND MEETING MUST BE A LITTLE MORE IMPRESSIVE.

WITH ALL GOOD WISHES,

Gandhigiri: YFE join hands with Nandita Das and Shekhar Kapoor

2007-10-05T05:17:00.000+05:30

http://www.karaditales.com/gandhi/yfe.htm

Hindu New Delhi

Rooting out corruption

Students of Jawaharlal Nehru University celebrated Gandhi Jayanti in their own way by launching a non-political outfit called “Young Gandhians Against Corruption”. As the name suggests, the outfit will focus on rooting out corruption from the country.

“Inspired by Mahatma Gandhi’s thought and ideals, we want to root out corruption from the topmost level of the system. Corruption accentuates poverty, increases economic disparity, retards speedy development of deprived classes, undermines democracy and, worst of all, corrodes the moral fibre of the entire nation. The rampant and burgeoning corruption in government establishments cannot be controlled unless political corruption at the top is rooted out. If there is no corruption at the higher levels, dishonesty and fraud will automatically stop happening at the grassroots level,” said the convener of the outfit, Prakasha Chandra Sahoo, a senior research fellow at JNU.

The new outfit has expressed solidarity with the Gandhian Satyagraha Brigade, whose honorary general secretary Shambhu Dutt Sharma is a freedom fighter and veteran of the Quit India Movement.

“Mr. Sharma has been a mentor for our outfit. We will soon spread to other colleges and universities. We do not necessarily need a huge membership; instead we want mature members who understand Gandhi’s ideology and his principles,” added Prakasha.

A brand new mass media institute -- MassCoMedia -- equipped with state-of-the-art technology, non-linear editing suites, radio studio, photo studio and e-classrooms has come up in Sector 58 of Noida next door to Delhi. Some of the courses offered at MassCoMedia are: undergraduate and masters’ programmes in print and broadcast journalism, television production and direction, advertising and marketing, public relations, event management and media management; diploma an d certificate courses in animation, graphics, special effects, and web content management and short term programmes in fashion photography, photojournalism, camera handling and radio jockeying.

The programmes are for not just students but also professionals and freelancers who wish to upgrade their skills.

The Institute of Clinical Research (India) recently announced the establishment of its fifth campus at the Cavendish College in London. It also announced the launch of a new course -- a global post-graduate diploma in clinical research in association with the Institute of Clinical Research, United Kingdom.

The new course is “unique”, including regulations for clinical research in Europe, the US, Japan and India. This will help in producing professionals for the global market.

It will be a part-time course and the first batch will begin in February with 40 students.

In an effort to bring today’s youth closer to “Gandhigiri”, Youth for Equality has joined hands with ace filmmaker Shekhar Kapoor and talented actor Nandita Das.

YFE in collaboration with the Karadi Tales Company Private Limited has released an audio book version of Mahatma Gandhi’s autobiography titled “The Story of My Experiments with Truth”.

While Shekhar is Gandhi’s voice in the book, Nandita provides the narrative.

The audio book was released in Mumbai on the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.

“We plan to promote this venture among the youth. We believe this would be one of the best media to make today’s youth understand the concepts of peace and non violence,” said N. Agasti, a coordinator of the Delhi University chapter of YFE.

-- Parul Sharma

WANT TO TAKE A CAUSE

2007-09-23T13:05:00.000+05:30

Dear All,

Taking a cause in the interest of the nation is something that everybody aspire to do because of the glamour and respect attached to it. But NOT IN THE FIELD AND PRACTICALITY! But in the drawing room!

Doing is something different from that of saying and thinking! OBC reservation in the post of faculty in DU is now getting implemented! Why??? Because nobody protest and pursude this at the Delhi High Court.

A similar policy is on the offing in JNU itself. The academic council has hastily passed a resolution approving OBC reservation in the post of faculty in JNU.

The existing legal group of YFE is overburdened with a series of petitions, including the main petition challenging 93rd amendment! The team is overstretched itself to reach 7 senior lawyers and as many petitions apart from other cases like PGI, Chandigarh, SGPGI, Lucknow, 69% reservation in TN and so many...

A group of people or a couple of determined/dedicated individuals or a team is all required to stall the policy. A petition must be filed to get an interim stay! Who will do this!!!

Some JNU faculties are ready to support in every possible way to restrict the policy outside the campus.

DECIDE!!!

“Wholesale quota will hurt national interest”

2007-09-21T12:59:00.000+05:30

SOURCE: Hindu, 20 Sep 2007

New Delhi: Providing 27 per cent OBC quota in all technical, medical or engineering institutions, excluding merit, will cause great prejudice to the national interest, counsel M.L. Lohoty argued in the Supreme Court on Thursday.

“The demand for technicians, engineers and experts for further economic advancement of the country is so great that it would cause a grave prejudice to the national interest if considerations of merit are completely excluded by wholesale reservation of seats in all educational institutions.” In higher education institutions of national importance, particularly in speciality or superspeciality courses, merit, not quota, should be the only consideration.

Mr. Lohoty is appearing for Youth for Equality before a Constitution Bench, headed by Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan, which is hearing petitions questioning the 93rd Constitution Amendment and the OBC quota law enacted under it.

Counsel said reservation should be avoided except in extreme cases of acute backwardness resulting from prior discrimination as in the case of the Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes and other classes in comparable positions.

“Poverty, which is the ultimate result of inequities and which is the immediate cause and effect of backwardness, has to be eradicated not merely by reservation but with free medical aid, free elementary education, scholarships for higher education and other financial support, free housing, self-employment and settlement schemes,” he said.

Vested interests

Appearing for the Resident Doctors Association of the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences, Sushil Kumar Jain said that because of prolonged conferment of benefits unholy vested interests had been created and fortified around reservation and any exclusion from the list evoked severe protests.

Reverse discrimination

Reservation was never meant to be a permanent feature in the constitutional scheme with equality as a theme and it could be applied only as a means of affirmative action to bring about parity in the condition of the people for eradicating eradicate the classes. “In the present political set-up, however, the discriminatory benefits continue even after parity is achieved, resulting in reverse discrimination.”

Mr. Jain said caste was being exploited by governments for furthering their political ends.

“The high objective of uplift of the really poor and backward has been overtaken by the greed for personal growth through segmentation and politicisation, and new additions are being made to the list on account of political pressures rather on the basis of any realistic analysis to determine the backward classes.”

The backward classes’ lists prepared by at least 13 State governments were defective in every aspect, and only a few communities cornered the benefits.

Scrutiny of lists

A scrutiny of the lists of castes would show that they were not prepared after due enquiry and investigation.

In Tamil Nadu, “the Sattanathan Commission report shows that almost 48 per cent benefits of reservation are taken away by nine communities [making 11 per cent of the population] and in comparison to that seven other communities, which constitute 12 per cent population, received only 0.9 per cent of the reservation benefits. The present system at the Centre treats both groups equally.”

Arguments, which began on August 7 on behalf of the petitioners, concluded on Thursday. Solicitor-General G.E. Vahanvati will commence arguments, on behalf of the Centre, on September 25.

SC to hear on OBC quota issue from Aug 7

2007-07-27T12:50:00.000+05:30

PTI | New Delhi

A five-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court will commence hearing from August 7 to examine the Constitutional validity of the controversial law providing 27 per cent quota for OBCs in elite educational institutions.

The court said, as scheduled it will hear on July 31, the Centre's application seeking vacation of the March 29 interim order staying the implementation of the provision of the legislation enabling OBC reservation.

A Bench headed by Chief Justice KG Balakrishnan did not accept the plea to defer the July 31 hearing as lawyers appearing for the petitioners supporting the Centre's plea for abrogation of the stay said the question of academic year was involved.

While putting a halt on the implementation of the Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Admission) Act 2006, a two-judge Bench had referred the matter to the Chief Justice for allocating it before a larger Bench.

During the brief hearing, the Bench, also comprising Justices RV Raveendran and Dalveer Bhandari said besides the main petitions on the issue, others would be tagged and heard together by the Constitution Bench.

The court was informed that before the matter was referred to the Chief Justice, 30 questions were framed for consideration by a larger Bench.

CNN-IBN Video: JNU boycotts Arjun Singh's visit

2007-03-31T17:42:00.001+05:30

http://www.ibnlive.com/videos/37435/arjun-an-unwelcome-guest-at-jnu.html

Arjun Singh booed, shown black flags in JNU

2007-03-31T17:34:00.000+05:30

Source: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/46218.html

Arjun Singh booed, shown black flags in JNU
Posted on : Sat, 31 Mar 2007 10:32:01 GMT Author : Indo Asian News Service

New Delhi, March 31 Dozens of students booed and shouted slogans against Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh Saturday at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) for supporting quotas for backward classes in elite educational institutions.

Singh had been invited as the chief guest by the social science department of JNU that was celebrating 150 years of the 1857 Sepoy Mutiny, popularly known as India's first war of independence.

As soon as the minister went to the podium to deliver his address, nearly 70 students under the Youth for Equality (YFE) banner shouted slogans like 'Arjun Singh murdabad' and waved black flags at him.

'We showed him an OBC certificate with his photograph over it. We don't want a minister who divides India on the basis of caste,' said Amit Kumar, a PhD student and coordinator of YFE at JNU.

The chaos lasted for over 30 minutes and interrupted Singh for nearly 20 minutes before he managed to complete his speech.

'Though JNU believes in freedom of speech, Arjun Singh, a votary of inequality, should not come to our university. We interrupted his speech for about 20 minutes and continued with our protest after that as well,' Kumar told IANS.

Holding placards and banners with messages like 'Reservation murdabad', 'Casteism, down, down!' the students demanded that the minister should resign in the wake of Supreme Court's temporary stay on 27 percent quota in higher educational institutions for other backward classes (OBCs).

The Supreme Court, disposing of petitions challenging the reservation law, stayed its implementation till August, citing lack of data on the OBC population.

The HRD ministry Friday said there would be no compromise in its commitment to securing social justice for weaker sections and it would go ahead with the implementation of reservation for backward classes in higher educational institutions.

However, the Left-backed JNU students union denounced the development.

'It's a shameful development. We denounce the sloganeering against the HRD minister. We believe reservation for OBC students is a social need and the government is doing right by ensuring it,' said Dhananjay Tripaty, president of the students union.

'We hope the final verdict of the court will go in favour of reservation,' he added.

SC says Govt has no reliable data, OBC quota stayed

2007-03-29T14:26:00.000+05:30

Source: http://www.ibnlive.com/news/sc-says-quota-is-vote-bank-politics-stays-order/37225-3.html

CNN-IBN

New Delhi: In what could be big a blow to the Government's pro-reservation stance, the Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the 27 per cent reservation for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in elite educational institutions like IIMs and IITs.

The Court ruled that the 1931 census could not be a determinative factor for identifying the OBCs for the purpose of providing reservation.

The ruling could once again set the stage for another clash between legislature and judiciary, as this is being seen as a setback to the Government.

The Bench comprising Justices Arijit Pasayat and L S Panta ruled on the batch of petitions filed by various organisations and individuals challenging the decision as being ultra vires (unconstitutional).

Various organisations had challenged the Centre's decision to implement the quota, claiming that there was no relevant data on the number of OBCs in the country.

The Bench said, "We are of the view that the impugned notification and enforcing the reservation for OBCs in the educational institutions must be put on hold as the Government has failed to provide any authentic or reliable data to justify its policy of reservation.”
SC held that Section 6 of the Constitution was not applicable since no data on who constitutes OBCs in India has been collected in the last 76 years.

"The Centre has to determine who are the socially and economically backward people of India, before the Central Educational Institutions Act can be given effect," the Bench stated.
However, the Bench clarified that the benefit of reservation for the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes could not be withheld. It said that the Centre could go ahead with the OBC identification process to determine the backward classes.

This means that if the Government can provide the court with authentic data on who constitute the OBCs in India, then reservation may be implemented in favour of people who genuinely need it.

"Reservation cannot be permanent and appear to perpetuate backwardness," the Bench observed.

While saying this, however, the Apex Court reprimanded the Centre, saying that the Centre should stay away from dividing the society on caste basis and should behave in a more responsible way.

It added the Government's decision to implement the quota system was full of flaws.
Lawyer for United Student’s Forum, M L Lahoty told CNN-IBN, “SC has stayed the order on the Act saying to the Centre, ‘Don’t divide the country only because of your vote bank’ and that 'the consequences of this quota would be very bad'."

The Centre had earlier justified the decision to implement reservation saying that Parliament had power to enact laws and that if the issue of giving OBCs reservation is not addressed, then there could be law and order problems in the country.

It had also maintained that general category students would not be affected by the quota, as the number of general seats has been increased proportionately.

Brushing this aside, the Bench said that the OBC quota was just vote bank politics and said it was forced to take the decision against the Government as the Government did not implement the SC's last two orders.

It said that a final decision would be taken only after proper documents related to OBCs were submitted.

The Government had enacted the Central Educational Institutions Act last year which provided for the reservations in institutes of higher education.

The hearing on the matter has been adjourned till the August 3, 2007.

Youth For Equality vie for ‘empowerment’

2007-03-26T01:09:00.000+05:30

Source: http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=228347

Youth For Equality vie for ‘empowerment’

Pallavi Singh

New Delhi, March 25: In 2006, a bunch of restless medical students from five medical colleges in the Capital floated Youth For Equality (YFE), a movement against Central Government's proposal to implement 27 per cent quota for OBCs. Their tagline: 'Non-Violent. Non-Political. United'.

A year later, they have charted a new course for themselves: Delhi municipal elections. The YFE is seeking political space in country's Capital by extending support to three Independent candidates in the upcoming polls.

The purpose, as its members point out, is simple: "Political empowerment to get things done the right way." Behind them is the experience of JNU Student Union polls last year and the Mumbai municipal polls early this year. "At JNU, we put up a close fight and won most seats in Science schools," says Lokesh Paliwal, YFE activist from a city medical college.

The Mumbai experience wasn't very heartening though. Out of two candidates fielded, one won but the other lost. In Delhi, they remain confident of victories despite their hats in a political ring dominated by the Congress and the BJP. Their hope: the young voters.

YFE's website lists more than 18,000 members and links to 13 chapters the world over. And, while the group is low on finance, the strong network of volunteers may swing a lot in its favour.
This jeans-clad group of students and professionals hopes to change the general perception that there is disdain among youth for electoral processes, be it contesting polls or voting. But beyond the much-spoken goal of changing perceptions lies a plan to keep the movement going.

As member of YFE-JNU unit Manoranjan Mishra points out, "issue-based agitations alone did not yield desired results. Several protest marches and hunger strikes in 2006 did lead to YFE's growth from a few to thousands of volunteers nationwide, but negotiations with the government on quota issue didn't yield much. That is when we realised we must contest elections and connect with the masses," says Mishra.

Out of the three YFE-supported hopefuls in MCD polls, two are in their early 20s. Says Pradeep Jha, a post-graduate from DU and a UPSC aspirant, who is contesting from GTB Nagar in Kingsway camp: "Participating in direct democracy to bring about change is much more lucrative than becoming part of a service where you are cut off from the masses."

On campaign trail, Jha goes door-to-door seeking votes and spending time with senior citizens in parks while volunteers market posters and t-shirts to raise funds. Sanjay Kumar, a PhD student from AIIMS who is contesting from Kasturba Nagar, has even put his medical expertise to optimum use by organising health camps.

SC reserves verdict on quota stay plea

2007-03-08T05:34:00.000+05:30

Source: http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=World_News&subsection=India&month=March2007&file=World_News2007030814637.xml

New Delhi • The Supreme Court yesterday reserved its verdict on a plea for an interim stay during the academic session 2007-08 on the latest law reserving 27.5 per cent seats for backward class students in higher educational institutions.

A bench of Justices Arijit Pasayat and L S Panta reserved the verdict after hearing arguments for 150 minutes for and against the plea for interim stay on the law during the upcoming academic session.

While reserving the judgement, the bench also directed counsels for various students' bodies, including the Youth for Equality, seeking an interim stay on the law, to file their remaining arguments in written form by March 12.

Pleading for an interim stay on the Central Educational Institutions (Reservations in Admission) Act, 2006, counsels for student bodies Fail S Nariman and P P Rao contended that the government has enacted the law merely to garner political mileage.

Nariman said that, "the government has absolutely no identifiable caste data" to justify its step to provide 27.5 per cent reservation in educational institutions to SEBC or Other Backward Classes (OBC) students.

He pointed out to the bench that the government has sought to provide 27.5 per cent reservations on the basis of the last caste-based census conducted in 1931, which has no relevance in 2007.

He contended that in the absence of any relevant caste-based data, no reservation could be provided, as it would run the risk of missing the targeted population.

On a suggestion by the bench if the government should be allowed to implement the law after excluding the creamy layer among the OBCs, Nariman said that, "that modality too would be as vague as the law itself" in the absence of any valid caste figures to identify the targeted beneficiaries.

Nariman and Rao challenged the Mandal Commission's finding, which put the percentage population of other backward classes in India at 52, saying that these figures are not reliable.

Supporting the law for reservation to backward category students, Additional Solicitor General Gopal Subramniam said, "Economic and educational backwardness has been caused and is perpetuated by social backwardness, which is a reality in Indian society divided on caste basis."

To justify the reservation for backward students in educational institutions, he quoted extensively from the 1992 ruling in Indira Sawhney versus government of India case on implementation of Mandal Commission recommendation, which provided for 27.5 per cent reservation to OBC candidates in government jobs.

YFE to contest the Delhi MCD polls

2007-02-28T05:46:00.000+05:30

Source: Times of India, New Delhi, 27 February 2007, page 6.

Keep the Cream OUT!!!

2007-02-25T01:33:00.000+05:30

Source: Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 24 February, 2007

Law student takes on Cong over quota

2007-01-29T04:48:00.000+05:30

Surendra Gangan Sunday, January 28, 2007 23:28 IST

Source: http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1076721

Sanjeet Shukla during a rally in Matunga on Sunday

Sanjeet Shukla, a 23-year-old law student of Mithibai College and the sole candidate fielded by Youth For Equality (YFE) — a student organisation formed to oppose reservation in education — has become a hit with Sion voters.

About 250 students and faculty from several engineering and medical colleges across the city, including GS Medical and KJ Somaiya Engineering colleges, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and Jawaharlal Nehru University from New Delhi, campaigned for the Sion resident on Sunday.

“If the government thinks it can divide the student vote to increase its votebank through reservation, it is mistaken,” says Dr Kumar Harsha, president of the Resident Doctors Association at AIIMS. “We want to send a strong message that they cannot separate students.” Dr Harsha and 20 AIIMS students and professors were in the city on Sunday to support
Shukla’s candidature.

“Sanjeet has been getting a positive response from residents of Ward 167, some of whom are even urging their neighbours to vote for him,” says Dr Gunjan Sharma, YFE spokesperson. Shukla’s popularity has the Congress worried. The party has decided to sideline its incumbent councillor, Babubhai Bhawanji, by fielding Upendra Doshi, general secretary of the Mumbai Regional Congress Committee, to take on Shukla. While campaigning, Shukla takes pain to drive home the message that YFE is not against reservation. “The organisation wants reservations to be based solely on the student’s economic background,” he says.

Mahendra Kedia, a third-year medical student with GS Medical College, says, “Though issues like reservation and discrimination are not directly related on the BMC level, it is a launch pad for YFE, which wants to field candidates for parliamentary elections.”

YFE's back: FLASH HUNGER STRIKE on December 19

2006-12-18T20:54:00.000+05:30

YFE Press Release

2006-11-24T14:22:00.000+05:30

YOUTH FOR EQUALITY,

11 A.M,

24 NOVEMBER 2006

NEW DELHI, INDIA

The present government's obstinacy to bring the reservation bill during the current session of the parliament is a hastily taken and avoidable decision. A careful examination of the 93^rd constitutional amendment and the subsequent reservation policy of the UPA government may offer contradictory interpretation. Our precise finding is that the 93^rd Constitutional amendment is actually an enabling amendment; it is not a compulsory requirement. The language of the amendment does not talk about reservations, the language talks about any provision by law for advancement of socially and educationally backward classes. The proposed extended reservation policy is targeting the best of the institutions of India in various fields ranging from Nuclear Research, Space Research, Medicine, Engineering, Fashion Technology, and Theatre to Studies of Social Sciences. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru established or visualized most of these institutions to convert India into a modern country taking it from the dogma of obscurantism, caste, creed and religion and to prepare India better to face the challenges of the coming centuries. He discounted any caste based entry to these institutions. Youth For Equality repose its full confidence in Pt. Nehru's vision of Modern India.

Reservations are politically popular but will barely touch the fringe of the problem. They may benefit a lakh or two from the creamy layer of backward castes. They will not benefit the millions of talented people left behind in the streets and fields of India. The most troubling truth about the whole reservation issue on the part of the government is the absence of a precise headcount on OBC population in whose interest the government is claiming to formulate the present reservation policy. Mandal puts it at 52 per cent, the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) at 32 per cent and the National Family and Health Survey at 29.8 per cent. Under such ambiguity it is humanely impossible to extend the benefit of the policy to the targeted populace. On the other hand Youth For Equality strongly believe that backwardness or poverty never confined to any caste or castes. So its eradication policy should not be confined to any particular caste or castes.

Since the announcement of the policy in the early April 2006, we have been raising our voice along with our friends from scientific community at different level in different volume. The report of the Parliament Standing Committee and the present version of the bill to be tabled in the parliament created serious deadlock in between the judiciary and the legislative. The legislature hell-bent to impose reservation is against the spirit of the constitution, while dodging the creamy layer issue and the modality adopted for its implementation.

To oppose this misrule of the present government the Youth For Equality is organizing countrywide agitation in the form of observing black day on 24^th of November 2006 and protest rally on 26^th of November across the country including Delhi. Youth for Equality is closely observing the proceeding at the Supreme Court and its violation by the Parliament. The YFE will be intensifying its agitation in the coming days in case government tries to overlook our concern.

Our appeal to the Monmohan Singh Government is to take an undisputable and legitimate view on the crucial matter of reservation, taking past experience and changing pattern of societal development into account and ensure the early restoration of normalcy in the country.

The ongoing agitation will be continued till our demands are met.

Miss. Shweta Gaur, Spokesperson, Youth for Equality

Miss. Sonika Tyagi, YFE Representative, New Delhi

"UNITED WE CAN WIN"

2006-11-24T14:19:00.000+05:30

YOUTH FOR EQUALITY

JOIN THE

"UNITED WE CAN WIN" RALLY

FROM : India Gate

To : Rashtrapati Bhawan

ON 26^TH OF NOVEMBER 2006(SUNDAY)

TIME 11.A.M.

BUS WILL BE LEAVING FROM POORVANCHAL AT 10 AM & 10.15 at Ganga Stop

Observe 24^th November (Friday) as BLACK DAY to show dissent to

1. Government's obstinacy to overrule Supreme Court on CREAMY LAYER.

2. Dividing the society on the basis of CASTE and RELIGION.

(Stand against the misrule with a black batch/ribbon)

YFE pulls the rug from under the political establishments in JNU

2006-11-16T22:46:00.000+05:30

YOUTH FOR EQUALITY

JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY CHAPTER

NEW DELHI

“Politics is for the moment, but an equation is for eternity” said Albert Einstein, Most Admired Person of the 20^th Century, while declining the offer for the post of 1^st President of Israel after its independence in the year 1948.

It’s a rare privilege on the part of the managers of Youth For Equality to give the customary thanks to all its supporters, who have affirmed their faith and stood resolutely with the cause of the Youth For Equality. Thanking the supporters is not the exact expression of our feeling as with the stroke of their vote they have shown the resilience of the power of youth. The Youth For Equality is honored and overwhelmed with the massive support of the JNU student. We place our heartfelt complements to the entire JNU student Community for being sided with the Youth For Equality. We will try our best to meet the aspirations schemed by the youthful minds and voters of the university. The ideas of left or right ideology have seriously been questioned by the thinking brain of this university students as the result of the just concluded election made known. Now the responsibility of the Youth For Equality has been increased and we will try our best to shoulder the responsibility properly.

It is time to follow the dictum of our leader Sonika Tyagi who said, “although the YFE formed with the agenda of opposing the government’s illogical 27% caste-based reservation policy, we have reformed ourselves in a way that we offered the perfect platform to the common students of the university to raise their genuine voice against the puppet student bodies. Our fight is for good governance, better student facilities, scholarships and transparency in the system.”

Doomsayers worked overtime to confuse the student community with their flawed astrological calculation about the fate of Youth For Equality. But the election result has offered them the best reason to stop believing in astrology or their own exaggerated capability either. The votes pulled by our Central Panel in the JNUSU Elections 2006 are as follow:

Organization	President	Vice President	General Secretary	Joint Secretary
YFE	810	736	739	722
SFI-AISF (Combine)	909	731	829	800
AISA	836	1076	942	624
ABVP	432	421	386	411
NSUI	112	189	221	404
BSF	132	127	141	135

The Youth For Equality has won five councilors one each in the Centre for Biotechnology (Anuj Kumar Sharma) and SIT (Mohammad Rehan) and three in the School of Life Sciences (Hemant, Amit Ranjan and Krishna). The agenda raised in our election manifesto will be covered to the possible extent over the year as the student community reposed faith in our capability. The glory of the throne is limited as we believe in doing and not in undoing. In the coming days we will best assess the need, interest and ability of the students and fix our priority of works. It is our conviction that with our zeal to make change and lead the real student voice in the campus we will perform better in the coming years.

Another welcome development in the election is the refusal of students’ faith in organizations like ABVP, which is shrinking over the years to the size of a pigmy. It is not long before it may recede into history! Finally, we congratulate the student community for making the election a peaceful event. We pledge to extend our support for the cause of student development and for the academic excellence of JNU.

Sd/ Sd/

Prakash Chandra Dash, Shweta Gaur

Chief Campaign Coordinator YFE Representative

Casteist Politicians QUIT PARLIAMENT

2006-08-07T18:49:00.000+05:30

Donate Generously

2006-07-23T11:45:00.000+05:30

Youth for Equality, JNU Chapter has always maintained that the proposed OBC Reservation Policy is only a vote-bank gimmick aimed at dividing the student community and increasing the differences within the society. YFE-JNU has continued its struggle against the irrational policies of the Government. Our 33 days of Hunger Strike has gone down the pages of history as a symbolic of Youth Power. We have continued holding Candlelight Marches, Public Talks, Mass Mobilisation Programmes and Rural Contact Programmes to raise awareness about the pernicious and divisive policies of caste-based reservation that only help reinstate caste-barriers!!

We need your help and encouragement in fighting for the noble cause. Please send your suggestions/ ideas to y4ejnu@gmail.com

(1) To contribute by cheque/DD(*), make it payable in New Delhi to YOUTH FOR EQUALITY, JNU CHAPTER.

(2) Direct Transfer to our Bank Account- YOUTH FOR EQUALITY, JNU CHAPTER (Account No. 4152 [Savings Bank Account], Corporation Bank, Vasant Vihar, New Delhi)

(3) To contribute funds by cash payment you can contact us at y4ejnu@gmail.com(#) or (011)-26179751 (ask for Ms Manpreet).

(*) Cheques/DDs may be dropped either in any Corporation Bank ATM Centre/ Cheque Collection Centre with the Bank Account details included (given in point 2 above), or post-mailed/couriered to Youth for Equality (JNU Chapter) c/o Prof Rakesh Bhatnagar, Lab No. 122, Centre for Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 110067.

(#) If you contact us by email for fund-contribution, please include "FUNDS" in the Subject line.

Samta Yatra on 23 July 2006

2006-07-23T09:53:00.000+05:30

IP and JNU fight back

2006-07-21T23:57:00.000+05:30

Photos from the Candlelight March on July 21 (Click here for more)

Youth for Equality in JNU organised a Candlelight march on 21 July to subvert the Government's plans of introducing the caste-based OBC Reservation Bill in the coming Monsoon Session. The march was a huge success, with approximately 250 concerned students of JNU having participated. The march that started with 100 students swelled to 250 as it took a serpentine path from Ganga Dhaba to Chandrabhaga Hostel in JNU, covering most of the hostels and dhabas.

Slogans like "Jaat ke naam pe baata hai, desh ko maara chaata hai" and "Students united shall always be victorious, government frustrated shall always be defeated"- ruled the show apart from the opportune "Na paani hai na bijli hai, aarakshan ki khuji hai" (there was load shedding while the march was progressing).

JNU is a premier Central university of India whose students are proud of their socially sensitive campus. The marching students were of the opinion that the proposed Bill on OBC reservation will divide the student community on caste-lines and increase differences within the society. They re-emphasised their demands of (a) roll back of the casteist OBC reservation policy, (b) a judicial review of the existing reservation policies to see if they have really helped the needy sections, and (c) implementation of innovative measures beyond reservation, to forward the cause social justice.
YFE has become a new brand in the JNU campus- many students in the march were seen flaunting their YFE T-shirts!!!

JNU students also condemned the police high-handedness meted out to their counterparts in IP University. IPU had observed a token hunger-strike of 12 hours today, wherein 92 students had participated. While the students were peacefully observing the strike, CRPF was deployed in the campus to cause threat and unrest. Later, when the students started their candlelight march the police blocked their way and manhandled many of them. Despite the police cordon, some 40 students reached the Red Fort and broke their hunger-strike there. The police arrested 31 students and harassed them for about an hour before they were released. The police alleged that this had been done because they were carrying mashaals, while all that the students were carrying were candles!! SHAME ON THE UPA GOVERNMENT FOR PURSUING THE WITCH-HUNT AGAINST OUR DEMOCRATIC RIGHT TO FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION.

SPEAK AGAINST THE PERPETUATION OF CASTE BOUNDARIES, STAND UNITED!!

Light a Candle

2006-07-21T19:55:00.000+05:30

Who will reap your Quota's benefits

2006-07-16T03:25:00.000+05:30

Times of India, Bangalore, 14 July 2006

ARJUN SINGH SHAME SHAME !!

WHO WILL REAP YOUR QUOTA’S BENEFITS IF YOU REFUSE THEM SCHOOLING ??

VOTE-BANK POLITICS, DOWN DOWN !!

CASTEIST POLICIES, DOWN DOWN!!

...my continuation on the commission will serve no useful purpose.

2006-07-13T02:09:00.000+05:30

Dr Pratap Bhanu Mehta speaks in JNU (Top)
The large audience hangs on to every word (Below)

(for more photographs visit http://y4ejnu.multiply.com/photos/album/37)

Dr Pratap Bhanu Mehta, while speaking on Knowledge and Society in the 21st century to an overwhelming audience in JNU exposed the shortcomings of Higher Education in India and also expressed concern about how gimmicks like the Reservation issue will only create blocks within the student community.

Here's a summary of points Dr Mehta picked up, during his talk-

1) The status of Education in India is in such shambles that it needs an urgent argument and a Public Debate to be able to move ahead in any positive direction.
2) When we talk about methods of improving our education system while ensuring social justice we should also ask if there are methods better than the one we are using, that can facilitate these objectives more effectively. If we pre-emptively abort the pursuance of such alternatives because of mutual mistrust, it will be tantamount to admitting defeat before we embark.
3) It is unfortunate that the Indian polity thinks and propagates such misleading ideas as "India is a world leader in higher education." This is NOT the same thing as "India supplies the world with highly qualified professionals." Indians doing well abroad CANNOT be counted as the symbols of India's success in Higher Education! To make a comparison- for every 1 Indian in India who holds a patent, 28,000 Indians do that abroad. Our situation is so precarious that if Indians who go abroad to explore educational opportunities stay back here- it will only result in higher demographic pressure on our education system- depriving larger numbers of their aspirations of education.
4) To compare with H.E. in China, of whom India was marginally ahead in the 70's, now India is behind by many orders of magnitude. Around 5000 Indian students are enrolled in China for courses in Medicine. Also, while China has taken out massive recruitment drives to pull teachers/professors to China (both Chinese and foreigners) to teach, India has not made any such efforts.
5) India has some 300 odd universities, of which only 20% impart professional education like medicine and engineering. Yet, most of the money of Higher Education is siphoned off into these areas. This is in stark contrast to what is seen in most other educationally sound countries- and is counter-productive.
6) While most serious countries spend about 16% of their budget on education without raising public tax, India needs to levy an Education Cess to increase its expenditure in Higher Education. Anybody saying that there aren't enough resources to put into Higher Education is SIMPLY lying!! The budget of JNU is nothing compared to that of Ashoka Hotel!!!!!!!!!
7) India is probably the only country in the world where even setting up an undergraduate university needs an Act of the Parliament! This and other bureaucratic tapes in the education system in India keep everything under such suffocating control that growth is almost impossible. A system where the teachers cannot design their own courses, where the students cannot choose their own courses, where these courses/teaching will be tightly controlled by the authorities above- little growth is possible.
8) India must have different kind of institutions for students of different needs- it is neither essential nor required for everyone to do a PhD!! If there are students who want quick employment, courses should be available for such needs. A good example can be University of California (Berkley) and the California State University (Long Beach) - while the former has formidable standards of entry, the latter is obliged to admit any student who wants to enter. This kind of dual system ensures that each student gets what they want.
9) China has seen a tremendous growth in the number of private universities in the recent past, and this has been due to the acute demographic pressure in that country. If the State cannot or is not willing to spend money to bring up enough opportunities for education, our demographic pressures demand that we catch any help that may be possible. Thus, private institutes of learning are a dire necessity!!
10) Unfortunately, the debate of education is so ludicrously focussed on the inputs- never on the outputs. We all are focussed on who gets in, not on whether who gets out is worth it. In a recent survey in Delhi- it was seen that 50% of the medical practitioners perform only as good as quacks!! This clearly tells us that our institutes of learning are not doing enough to teach students. Our top institutes like the IITs/IIMs are not institutes of learning, but institutes of screening for entry. This will have to change. Quality standards should also be imposed on the outputs- not on the inputs alone.
11) Best society is that which allows everyone to meet their aspirations and that is where the need to provide opportunity arrives. Yet, to uphold standards is also very important- we have to respect the intrinsic autonomy of the sphere of every field. If athletic skills are the ones that matter in athletics- they should be the major yardstick to choose athletes. Replacing this yardstick by other criteria (like regional/ caste bias) is dangerous.
12) In terms of Social Justice, the miserably low percentage (less than 10%) of people within the SC/STs having benefited from our current schemes is a stark teller of how poorly such schemes have fared. Yet, the polity's ignorance and lack of vision is so high that they see social justice and reservation as synonymous!
13) Much is being made of the South Indian success. With >80% of the private institutions of the country thriving in South India, it is not hard to guess the hollowness of the argument. Also, when such a large section (75%) of the South Indian population is covered under some form quota- the objective of quota stands defeated!! Before we say that South India has been a success, we must ask- what was the objective of the South Indian experiment with massive quotas. If it was marginalising the forward castes, it definitely has been a success- the FCs of the south have done a mass exodus from the states. But, if the objective was social justice- the success story needs to be taken with a pinch of salt.
14) We should refrain from accepting the blocks the Indian polity assigns us to- SC, ST, OBC, OC and the like. These identities should be given up by us!!

15) Youth for Equality has done a great job in making the government sit up and take notice. It is for the students to assert what they want and not for the polity to dole out what it likes. Now, YFE has to strive to do a wider job- to bring about a paradigm shift in the way our system works; to build trust, hope and confidence and become the Pressure Point that demands for a change!!