One DISHA Student Organization Emerged in DUSU elections
Disha Students’ Organization organized a mass meeting at the Art’s Faculty.
Presidential candidate Yogesh Meena (ballot no. 8) presented the revolutionary manifesto in front of the students.
Delhi University Students’ Union (DUSU) Elections
Disha Students’ Organization organized a mass meeting at the Art’s Faculty.
Presidential candidate Yogesh Meena (ballot no. 8) presented the revolutionary manifesto in front of the students.
MPNN – CORRESPONDENCE
New Delhi – This year in DUSU elections, among ABVP, NSUI, AISA, SFI, RJD and CPI-ML, a new organization of Delhi University students is emerging with the agenda of providing better education and health to the students in the university itself and demanding to Girls security and employment for the students while they are in the university – “Disha Student Organization” whose presidential candidate Yogesh Meena (ballot no. 8) is seen roaring in the campus with its manifesto.
The atmosphere of Delhi University once again gained heat as a fiery presidential candidate, Yogesh Meena from Disha Students’ Organization is attempting to revive the rich legacy of radical struggles of the 100-year-old university.
After paying tribute to Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh, Yogesh Meena, a first-year student of the campus law center, presented the revolutionary manifesto of Disha Students’ Organization in front of the large gathering of the students.
The slogans of ‘free and equal education for all’ and ‘permanent employment for all’ were echoed through the otherwise jam-packed Chhatra Marg.
Addressing hundreds of students gathered outside gate no. 4 of Art’s faculty, Yogesh said, “A decisive struggle against the fee hike, privatization, NEP-2020, patriarchy, casteism, and against the communal fascist forces of BJP-RSS can only be waged by an independent revolutionary student organization. Disha Students’ Organization is one such organization which is not affiliated to any electoralist political party.
Our program and action are decided from among the common students and not dictated by any electorolist parent party. Incessant fee hikes because of NEP-2020 must be rolled back, the university must provide hostels to all as mentioned in the University of Delhi Act, 1922, and the translation department must be made fully functional.
These are the demands we are stressing along with many other important demands of reclaiming campus democracy, ensuring women’s safety, making campus a truly secular space where no religious and communal event should be allowed, making campus accessible for people with disabilities, roll back of hostel curfew, and regular audit of university funds for which we will struggle.
We believe, in the era of fascism, there is no option but to fight fascists on the roads and throw them out of the campus.”
Central council member, Keshav Anand revived the history of student movements around the world and Delhi University’s historically significant role in India’s freedom struggle. He said, “From Ramjas College’s role in hiding Chandrashekhar Azad when he was evading the British government, to the involvement of Hindu College students in the Quit India Movement, and that of St. Stephen’s students’ and professors’ sacrifices in the radical peasant movements in the 1970s, the walls of DU have always breathed liberation.”
Keshaw also recalled the anti-emergency movements in India and the role of students in France, and the US in the past, and very recently- Nepal in bringing down the corrupt, dictatorial state and its machinery.
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The event was also a creative expression of common students who created big artworks on paper and cloth. The cultural team of Disha Students’ organization performed revolutionary songs, and members and activists performed a satirical play that exposes the politics of money and muscle power of ABVP-NSUI and politics of opportunism of AISA-SFI.
While exposing this politics of so-called student organizations, Chiranshu from Disha students’ organization talked about how the mother party of ABVP, i.e., the Fascist BJP-RSS is bringing in the anti-student policies like NEP-2020 in order to privatize and communalize education.
Chiranshu said, “The fascist hordes who enter women colleges like Miranda and IP College are claiming to ensure women’s safety.
These are the same people who support Brijbhshan Singh and who go silent when asked about Chinmayanand.
Another big hooligan organization, NSUI, too, would never fight for the common students’ demands since it is their own mother party, Congress, that has started the process of selling public universities to private hands.
At the same time, the so-called left organizations AISA-SFI, who were fighting like anything in the JNUSU elections, writing pamphlet after pamphlet exposing each other, have found a new love for each other in the DUSU elections.
The peak opportunism of CPI-ML Liberation allows them to ally with RJD, the same party that killed AISA comrade Chandu.
And the rank shameless politics of SFI not only allows them to be very silent on the HEMA committee report and CPI(M)’s brutal crackdown on anti-CAA and pro-Palestine protesters but also to pretend to fight on these issues in DU.”
Chiranshu also talked about the infamous 41-member resignation of AISA-Bangalore and the allegations of transphobia, misogyny, and undemocratic structure within the organization, and the irony that an AISA candidate is claiming to ensure women’s safety.
Pamphlets and the manifesto were distributed as more students gathered to hear presidential candidate Yogesh, who read out the demands formulated by Disha students’ organization. Some of the important demands raised in the DUSU elections are:
• Through the student union, we will fight to get the New Education Policy 2020 withdrawn, cancel FYUP, and end the C.B.C.S. system.
• We promise that after winning the student union, we will make the entire account transparent and public. We will ensure that there is a public audit of the expenditure of the Delhi University administration for the last 10 years.
• We will fight to restore the ever-shrinking democratic space on the campus and prevent it from turning into a police cantonment.
• We will fight to end the Internal Assessment Scheme and Mandatory Attendance Policy.
• The number of hostels in Delhi University should be increased. We will fight to stop the annual fee hike of the available hostels, to get the Rent Control Act implemented in the residential areas around the campus by issuing a recommendation letter from the university administration.
• We will fight to make ICC more democratic and effective.
• We will fight for the establishment of subsidized canteens in all colleges.
• We will ensure that the ever-increasing hooliganism on the campus is stopped.
We will ensure that the programs organized by the university administration from time to time to spread the fascist agenda are done away with. Apart from this, the programs organized by all religious fundamentalist organizations should be banned immediately.
Along with this, we will also fight against the changes being made in the syllabus in the departments under the fascist agenda.
• We will ensure that the university starts the translation department.
• We will fight for the university to provide special facilities for disabled students as per their needs, from education to transportation.
• Will fight for providing metro pass facility for students.
• Will fight for improving Wi-Fi facilities on the campus.
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The program ended with a resolve to fight the communal fascist forces in campus, resist fascist penetration in administration, and expose opportunist politics which is damaging the student movement.
The students extended support to the presidential candidate and showed agreement with the demands raised and showed interest in voting for Yogesh Meena (ballot no. 8) for the post of DUSU President.
A rally was taken out by the common students led by Disha Students’ Organization through the campus of Delhi University. Pamphlets were distributed and slogans were raised appealing to the common students to chose an independent revolutionary alternative in this year’s DUSU elections and vote for Yogesh Meena (ballot no. 8) for the post of president.
– Disha Students’ Organization
