JANHASTAKSHEP: a campaign against fascist designs
New
Delhi
Press Release
The Highhandedness of “High level Inquiry Committee” in JNU
A team of Janhastakshep, comprising of Professor N.Bhattacharya
and Professor Manoranjan Mohanty (former professors in Delhi University); Dr.
KB Saxena (retired IAS); Professor Anoop Saraya and Professor KK Verma
(Professors in AIIMS); Ish Mishra (Associate Professor at Hindu College, Delhi
Univetsity visited the Freedom Squqre
in JNU to express solidarity with
the students sitting on indefinite hunger strike against the high Committee”. The team observed that there was
another parallel hunger strike by ABVP. As a pretext to be impartial, the
committee has also slapped a fine of Rs 10,000 on JNUSU joint Secretary, an
ABVP member. The ABVP is demanding enhancement of The students charged with
“sedition” are demanding total withdrawal of the recommendations of the
illegitimately constituted committee in Toto, the ABVP is demanding revocation
of fine against its member and increase in the magnitude of punishment to
others. Janhastaksep strongly condemns,
in no uncertain terms, the punishment handed down to over a dozen JNU students,
the protagonists of the current students’ agitation and firmly stands with
students’ struggles against the
Brahmanical fascist attack on the institutions of higher education.
JNUTA and JNUSU had already raised the objection on the procedures and the composition
of the committee the leader of the anti-reservation, casteist organization,
Youth for Equality. JNU has always been an eyesore for RSS and its numerous
affiliates, as its democratic academic culture in unfertile to the growth of
sense of devotion and unquestioned following, the crux of any right wing
extremist organizations like RSS. Immediately after Modi’s ascendance to power
the preparation began to attack JNU as is clear from the write-ups in
Panchjanya and Organizer, the RSS mouthpieces and the dossier prepared in 2015
by some pro-RSS teachers that declared it as the hub of the “organized sex
racket” and anti-nationalism. The charges labeled by Delhi Police and RSS/BJP
leaders who shamelessly term the students of JNU as prostitutes and engage
themselves in counting condoms and cigarette buts. Why the powers that be
seek to penalize the students who dare to dissent and invent, who are country’s
intellectual potential? Brahmanism euphemizing itself as nationalism knows the
value of education, the monopoly over which had enabled it to keep country
intellectually stagnant for centuries. Punishment handed to JNU students to
scare them into conformity, is just a part of premeditated attack on Higher
Education to direct it regressively.
Sd
Ish Mishra
Convener
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