* * *JNU Joint Struggle Committee's Press Conference Today (Oct 29) at JNUSU Office at **2 pm***
The Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union and the Joint Struggle Committee (formed in JNU the wake of the Supreme Court's stay order on JNUSU elections) will hold a *Press Conference today (Oct 29, 2008) at 2 pm at the JNUSU office in Teflas* *to announce its future course of action. *We request you to send your correspondent and photographer to attend this press conference. Ever since the Supreme Court's stay order on JNUSU elections, the entire JNU community has risen in anger and protest against this assault on the JNUSU election process and the JNU student movement. JNU faculty have also extended their solidarity with the ongoing protests against the stay order. Last night, there was a massively attended solidarity public meeting with JNU faculty, which was addressed and attended by more than 25 teachers including JNU Teachers Association President Kamal Mitra Chenoy, Prof. M.H. Quereshi, Prof. Varyam Singh, Prof. Anand Kumar, Prof. Jayati Ghosh and Prof. Neeladri Bhattacharya. More than 800 students attended this late night meeting. At the meeting, Prof. Chenoy said that the Supreme Court's stay order was a direct attempt of the UPA government to put curbs on the JNU student movement, since it was the government appointed Additional Solicitor General Gopal Subramanium who had filed the petition in the Supreme Court. Prof. Anuradha Chenoy emphasized that India has an extremely diverse college and university system. Therefore, a single, straight-jacketed formula cannot be suitable. JNU, which already has a culture of conducting democratic elections, certainly does not need any new restrictions imposed on it. Prof. Anand Kumar talked about the history of the JNUSU, and JNU's long and well-established traditions of conducting peaceful and democratic elections. He said that the stay order was proof that the Court had completely failed to recognise the democratic culture and the unique election process in JNU. JNU elections were a role model for the rest of the country, which the Lyngdoh Committee itself has accepted, and can in no way be compared with elections in other campuses. Other teachers also expressed their shock at the Court order, and their solidarity with the ongoing protests. The JNU community will not tolerate this assault on the JNU student movement. *We once again invite you to Press Conference (**Oct 29, 2008**) at **2 pm**. * Sd/- *Sandeep Singh* President, JNUSU On Behalf of the Joint Struggle Committee 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
