JNU

What prompted me to write this blog in three parts? Recently I came across two blogs written by near and dear ones, both coming from well to do families, highly educated, economically independent, free thinkers with open minds but basically brought up with middle class values and all that, which would never classify them as Leftist of any genre, Maoist, Leninist, Centro Leftist, Far Leftist even pseudo-Leftist. Basically simple souls but with the mind of their own. May be prototype for urban educated middle path followers travelled from little have-nots to haves, having all the modern-day amenities and luxuries at their doorstep, of course with their own herculean efforts, no doubt! But no real struggle, where you don’t know where your next meal is coming from!

But after going through their blogs, though I was not shocked, utterly or otherwise, wondered whether the Leftist are becoming successful in their propaganda against the system, mind you not against the present government and have entered the middle class houses, not literarily but into their psyche, not absolutely corroding them but making them sit straight and take the cognizance of their philosophy, methodology and above all their existence in a ‘DEMOCRATIC” country where in reality they must not have any place, because of their very way of thinking![ By the way US of A, the epitome of Right-wing politics, too has Communist party but the members are only 5000 in number.]

One was feeling overtly uneasy about what’s been happening around her and the second was bothered whether the multicoloured ‘Quilt’ of the nation is losing its very character, of quilt woven from different pieces, of culture, castes, states, races and above all religion. Okay till here. But when the mention of JNU students came with melted chocolate in the heart, it made me wake up. I definitely had a different notion about these so-called ‘STUDENTS’ from the JNU campus. It made me go through these three problems what India is facing today, Muslims in form of CAA and NRC and JNU for ‘STUDENT’ unrest, into bracket Urban Naxals

What I wrote in the first blog is the tip of the iceberg and the problems are much bigger than we see or even imagine. Plenty of material/literature is available openly on all the social platforms and search engines that I had to spend at least 2-3 days just to go through the part of it and analyze it in my own way. I am not a research scholar, la JNU M Phil Student, but whatever I could gather on all the three topics is beyond shocking!

Having already said about Islam and Indian Muslim, they have qualms about even calling them such, they are Muslims first so it must be Muslim Indians, let me try to get down to what JNU actually is and what it stands for.

When the bill, to have second University in Delhi was discussed in parliament Noted Barrister, parliamentarian, former Chief Justice of Bombay [Then] High Court, M C Chagla had questioned about the very necessity of having it in Delhi, where others were already present. And he was not the lone dissenter.

The point to be noted and that is highly pertinent especially in today’s context is, ’The constitution Of JNU’ is exhaustively contributed by none other than Mr Prakash Karat, JNU alumni,  the eminent leader of Communist Party of India of which he was president 2005- 2015. So naturally, it has to be dominated by Communist/Leftist views and way of thinking. JNU has always been the hub of Leftist activities though the students deny it but AISA,[All India Students Asso.] which is a student wing of CPI[ Maoist/Marxist does not matter] has mostly won the elections held at any time in JNU. ABVP, rival student organization of Right-wing policies, tried many times to get in, but the efforts were always thwarted by strong Leftist AISA.

JNU is not new to the controversies. The latest one though started as ‘Agitation against the Fees hike’ has ultimately culminated into something else altogether but definitely political. To attach it to 'from CAA and NRC to free speech and freedom of expression', definitely seems to be politically planned. ‘Why’, which even they won’t be able to decipher. The management has not revised the fee structure over the last 19 years though the common man on the street is fighting daily against the rising cost of living. The funding deficit amounts as of now to $1.6 million [ source Western, so the figure is in $].Even though the management has offered to roll back the hike partially but the students are still asking for the original fee structure, stating that the students below the poverty line would be affected. But are they only in JNU, every University, every college, every teaching institution has them so why it’s disturbing only the students of JNU?? And what was the fee structure? You will be surprised. The hostel room charges are Rs10 for double occupancy while Rs 30 for single. The ample number of scholarships with free ships with stipend thrown in for PG students. There are 1594 M.Phil/PhD students as of now and one gets an allowance of Rs 35000/- month if he/she does not opt for the hostel accommodation. Thus management spends around Rs 16,079,600 on these students till their graduation. And what are the subjects of their dissertation? Here are few:

1.Community based Health care in Kenya.

2.Adult Mortality in Paniya tribe.

3.Religious Healing practices in Mappila Muslims

4.Dismissal of Peng Dehuai[Who?]

These are only a few of the dissertation at the cost of taxpayers’ money, I don’t get how these are going to help the Indian community at all, in any which way!.

As compared to PG ‘STUDENTS’ of JNU, PG Students of KEM /JJ/Nair/LTMC or any other state medical college in any damn state, get much less stipend, have to stay in the dinghy rooms, have to eat substandard food, but all the state Governments in India extract stupendous health work out of them without which any hospital just wouldn’t run. That’s their gift to the society at the cost of their real toil and their youth! They too went on strike, many times, for their just demands but patient care was always taken care of. Last but not the least"There was never violence of any kind nor the destruction of any public property like, breaking down the life-saving equipment or burning the records!

JNU is imbibed with controversies because of its overt Leftist stance right from the beginning. This is not the only! Right from the inception, it's drowning in the cesspools of controversies, mired in one after the other! No topic was taboo just to put down the Pseudo attire of the student and go on strike. Right from Feminism, Minority rights[ a pet reason], to social and economic justice. These are debated/fought so fiercely that due to not so cold war between majorly two student unions, the elections were banned by the Supreme Court of India for not complying with the recommendations of the Lyngdoh committee. It was lifted only after prolonged negotiations lasting for 4 years. And of course Left backed AISA won with the thumping majority!

But the Cherry on top of the cake was definitely taken away by the now infamous ‘Tukde Tukde’ gang. The infamous Afzal Guru who did not only mastermind but executed the attack on the ultimate edifice of Democracy in India, The Parliament was to be posthumously felicitated because he was the hero of Kashmir Liberation front and he was executed by the Indian Constitution for his noncrime, UNJUSTIFIABALLY, so they claimed!. Every true Indian must stand and protest against such “STUDENT”s, notorious Kanhaiyyakumar was President of the JNU students Union then, who showed his true colours by contesting the elections on the CPI-M ticket and fell flat on his face in his own village, in his own state clearly indicating that the majority does not support him or his views!

Subramanium Swamy has suggested that JNU should be shut down for two years, cleansed off its nefarious Left-wing activities which would never  fit in the definition of Democracy and should be restarted after naming it after Late Subhash Chandra Bose, then only this mine of Urban Naxals won’t produce more, those try to destabilize the multilayered a structure that’s  The QUILT of India!

To be continued….