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*JNU Teachers Join Students in Protesting against Stay on JNUSU Elections * A massive protest meeting is to be held tonight under the banner of the Joint Struggle Committee, which will be addressed by a large number of JNU's teaching community. Many JNU teachers themselves are architects of the JNUSU Constitution and the JNU election process, and are shocked that JNU elections should be targeted. Reacting to the statement by Mr. Lyngdoh in today's Indian Express, (in which he suggested that JNU should field 'younger faces' because people who are over 35 had no place in students' elections), JNUSU President Sandeep Singh said that he wondered where Mr. Lyngdoh got the impression that JNUSU office bearers were 'older' faces? JNU students were not in the habit of electing people of the age of their lecturers as their representatives, he said. The JNU students' struggle should not be trivialised as an attempt to retain 'older' candidates. If the Lyngdoh recommendations were to be imposed in JNU, it will mean the loss of the JNUSU Constitution, which is a remarkable democratic blueprint created by thousands of students for the last 37 years. More importantly, it will mean that JNU students will no longer have the autonomy to conduct and regulate their own elections. This self-regulation will be replaced by a code imposed by authorities from outside. Delhi University has had such a code for many decades: yet, every year, the DU code of conduct, and even the Lyngdoh code imposed last year, failed completely to do away with the vitiations like money, liquor, inducements and muscle-power. JNU's remarkable achievement of proven, tried and tested, organic, home-grown democracy, will be thrown in the dustbin, to exchange it for a formal code which has failed to achieve its objective. This will be a tragic loss for the student movement. This is why JNU students are fighting to preserve the JNUSU Constitution, and JNU students' rights to decide, through their UGBM, if any changes in that Constitution are called for. JNU students have proved their responsibility and respect for democracy: they are quite capable of deciding if they want to vote for a candidate who is aged 29 or 30 years, or if they want to vote for a candidate who has contested elections before. Details of topic and speakers in tonight's protest meeting given below: The Stay On JNUSU Election The Struggle Ahead What Is To Be Done Unite To Defend JNU's Unique Democratic Culture Kamal M. Chenoy, JNUTA President, Sachhidanand Sinha, Associate Dean, Satyapal Gautam, Neeladri Bhattacharya, Varyam Singh, M. H. Qureshi Anand Kumar R. K. Kale Anuradha Chenoy Gopal Guru K. J. Mukherjee Jayati Ghosh C. P. Chandrashekhar Anwar Pasha S. N. Malakar B. S. Butola Bhagat Oinam Vivek Kr. Khwaja Ekramuddin Ashwini Mahapatra Ashish Agnihotri Aqhlaque Ahmad Hemant Adalakha G. Ajay & Others *27 Oct. 08 (Tonight) **9:00 pm** **Godavari** Dhaba*** * * *Joint Struggle Committee*** -- With Regards, Sandeep JNUSU, President Mob. No. 9868033425 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
