Emotionally Speaking

According to the  JNUSU

[right wing parties do not recognise this JNUSU] pamphlet when the second list of speakers submitted by the NSUI’s Harsh Vardhan Shyam at around 10 pm was denied according to the JNUSU constitution, Mr. Shayam appeared with a gang of some 15 NSUI activists and caused uproar by shouting slogans, climbing on to the dais and disconnecting the mike. After about half an hour, when Kusum Lata, a PhD student of CSSS [SSS], continued with her speech despite the din “NSUI goons led by Bharat Kumar, Zaigam Abbas and Harsh Vardhan Shayam” pushed and assaulted the speaker, santched the mike and cut off the power supply.

The resolution to extend the JNUSU tensure by two months was passed by voice vote, the violence notwithstanding. The pamphlet, among other things, also says that the NSUI activists were also at the police station to file FIRs “laughably pretending to be the victims of some murderous attack.” The pamphlet is signed by Sandeep Singh, Shephalika, Pallavi Deka and Mobeen Alam.

The NSUI pamphlet

signed by Simmy Joseph, JNU unit president, had the heading “Comrades defeated shall always be frustrated; but why sexual harassment is always its strategic weapon?” According to the pamphlet, the “lumpens” of the left unleashed brutal assault on NSUI activists Bharat Kumar, Manoranjan Mohapatra, Munirul Islam, who along with many other NSUI, activists were demanding the undemocratic JNUSU leadership to accept the list of a few speakers. The pamphlet alleges that instead of heeding to a very genuine demand, “the comrades under the leadership of JNUSU president Sandeep Singh and his comrade goons Mobin Alam, Vismay Basu and Lenin unleshed violence against NSUI activists.” Also, “in order to dilute and divert the issue of murderous assault on our activists, the commies, out of frustration, have interestingly come up with fabricated script of sexual harassment in the whole mess.”

According to the the NSUI pamphlet the NSUI had “tried to submit the list on time but the excuse of fulfilment of quorum was conveyed. The pamphlet further says that the ” chair had the discretion to accept list taking into account the particular circumstances [the undemocratic chair does it for their comrades. How can we become comrades for getting an opportunity to express our views?]. NSUI has urged the JNU administration for strict action against the culprits and called a protest demonstration tonight [1 September 2009, 10 PM] from Ganga Dhaba.

The PSU pamphlet signed by Divya ["down with the right-wing hooliganism of NSUI] and the AISA pamphlet signed by Sucheta and Vishal have more or less the same tone and tenor as the JNUSU pamphlet.

The ABVP pamphlet

signed by Nitin and Anamika Singh remarks that it was “another chapter of communist violence unleashed” and calls in question the “communist dictatorship.” Among other things, the pamphlet raises the issue of voting time in the UGBMs: “Why should the voting in all the UGBMs take place at early morning? The answer is that the communists take care that participation of common students remain minimal in the political process and the communist propaganda in this campus can survive and spread like a virus.”