Student's Dharna, Legal Blackmailing and AMUSU Constitution

The month of revolution is back. So are the heinous practices of the AMU administration. We have seen things in past and I proved them with documentary evidence. After students started their peaceful agitation this time for the legitimate demands of the students the first thing AMU administration did is to activate its propaganda machine through the Public Relation Office in the Stalinist way. The phrases like “Outsider” started coming in without any documentary evidence. I have posted the Secret Paper in past where Vice-Chancellor tried to link an AMU incident with Al-Qaeda. Even this time again they mentioned â€œOutsider”. My simple question, Sir, is it Al-Qaeda again? Ohh you have got the chance again to pass another Crores of Rupees for Security in the dark rooms of North Block! Grab it at any cost Sir. Home Ministry will bless you.

 They must have also activated the LIU group and senior Proctorial Officers must be writing draft after drafts of the Departmental Enquiry Report of this whole incidence (based on nothing of Course) to prove their mettle in creative writing. After all whosoever write the Best Fiction in the first opportunity like this can ask for any favour ( Read lucrative post, Selection Committee favours you know). My best of luck to the ones who will write this Departmental Enquiry Report in the coming days. I will write a literary review of course without any favour though whenever I get it through RTI.

A Grievance Meeting is being held, a meeting was called immediately and a Press Release came in that Toppers assured the Vice-Chancellor that they are not the part of the protest. So the propaganda is- only bad elements are the part of it. We know a famous way to declare peace, put a gun on anyone’s forehead and forcing him to say, ‘yes its Peace’. But till I am with the AMU students, I will never let their propaganda machine work. The gun tottering tactic started the day AMU students organized a huge peaceful rally to demand the removal of the despotic characters and restoration of Students Union. But when students are pushed to the wall, I know the fallen shall rise again.

Now AMU authorities have started legal blackmailing of the students community. The days of Committees are over. It’s just eyewash. Last year it was promised to the students that Committee on the Students Union would submit its report in 3 months but only to fool students.

 Well I have some legal advice to my fellow brethren at the Dharna site which I want to convey through this forum.

The demand for the Students Union should be a non-negotiable demand and there should be no discussion on it and this is supported by the AMU Act, 1981. The recent Press Release that is coming up is just to mislead the students community.  Every Act is in force till it is amended or repealed. Even till the last day. Now the Statute 34 of the AMU Act, 1981 clearly states that, *34. Students’ Union - There shall be a Students’ Union to be known as Aligarh Muslim University Students’ Union. The Vice- Chancellor of the University shall be the Patron of the Union.

Now this Act was passed by Parliament and therefore the “shall” word emphasize that its mandatory for the AMU to have a Students Union. So even if the AMU authorities are blabbering about some AMU Courts decision to review the Acts or Statutes, its effect is only in perspectives terms and not in retrospective way. So at this moment the legal stand is very clear. That no committee, no body is empowered to stall the restoration of the Students Union untill that Statute is amended or repealed. So buddies, don’t listen to these craps. Don’t attend any meeting or consult with any Committee till official notice comes about the restoration of the AMU Students Union by October. AMU administration will only fool with such tactics. And ultimately their aim is that instead of restoring Students Union following Statute 34, they will say as talks failed and student are not relenting in their protest, so lets declare sine die. Students must realise that Students Union is their statutory right and the demand must be met at any cost.

If someone comes and says that problem in the restoration of Students Union is arising due to the Lyngdoh Committee report, the legal logic is plain and simple. Lyngdoh Committee report is already challenged at the Constitutional Bench of Supreme Court and its recommendation is from Judiciary, whereas the AMU Students Union is mentioned as mandatory by the Parliament of India which is the Supreme Body in India. So Parliament should be followed.

The argument that due to violence we are not restoring Students Union also lack rationality, which if is applied at the National level ( considering the  large scale violence happen in some parts) will only cease the Parliamentary Democracy of India and bring the black days of Emergency.

And remember my friends, in the end what matters is “WE THE PEOPLE”...Long time back AMUSU Constitution was written and it shall be our guidance even now because it was declared by the “We the Students of Aligarh Muslim University’. AMU administration even today charge Rs. 60 for AMU Students Union.

So according to the Clause 1, Chapter II of AMUSU Constitution, AMU students are still the member of the AMUSU. It means you just have to restore it.

And my dear fellow students, don’t feel disheartened when AMU authorities claim that those who are protesting are criminal elements. You know, recently one senior Proctorial Officer took law onto his hands and browbeaten a poor Risksha Puller because he was fetching the tent for the agitating students. What a proud display of muscle power on a poor fellow who earn by toiling all the day. Is not it a criminal Act? Who doesn’t know that 4 top Officials were booked under various sections of IPC ( criminal trespass and all) in the Dr. Siras Case! Or long time back a Hindi daily flashed the report of an FIR against Registrar and all. Or the recent FIR against the Vice-Chancellor himself by one Polytechnic student on account of Forgery! Or have we forgotten that the top AMU officials are still under Presidential Enquiry for financial bungling which is a criminal act? So my dear students, no one can allege that you are a criminal unless there is any FIR or even allegations. Those who are doing it have just lost all the sanity by being involved in their alleged criminal actions.

And now, when students are agitating for the restoration of AMU Students Union, I wish to gift them the digitize copy of the Constitution of AMU Students Union. I procured it through the RTI and digitized it for wide circulation. Student Grievance Redressal Committee can be compared with AMUSU because of this Constitution. My dear fellow students, in your struggle, read it everyone arm yourself with this legal document which was not available anywhere till date except the dusty racks of Council Section, Registrar Office, AMU. The AMU Website displays every Act and Statutes for the RTI movements, even the Students Conduct Rules, 1985 but not AMUSU Constitution( AMU authorities hate democratic student representation or doesn’t understand the concept of Democracy). I hope it will also rekindle the nostalgia among the Old Boys also who may download it from here,

 

http://www.box.net/shared/2mu6g5rv2e( To download AMU Students Union Constitution)

AMU Proctor Office is expert in fictional report

Deputy Proctor Dr. Fareed A Khan

".....went to I.G.Hall on instigation of Mr.Shujatullah and Mr.Irfan Khan along with them and 30-35 other students on 31.10.2009 at around 12.15 pm.There he tried to enter inside the I.G. Hall. They threatened the girls( leaving for homes) for forcefully kidnapping them if they shall go home in response to the notice of the closure of the University. They were later on chased by the C.O Civil Lines, Inspector Civil Lines and Proctorial Team Members/ Security"...Page No.14, 

Departmental Inquiry Report submitted by Deputy Proctor(Convener) Dr. Fareed A Khan & Dr. M.Kaleemuddin Ahmad, Asst Proctor( Member) & Dr. Mohd. Israel( Member) on the events of October, 2009.

Well well this portion seems to be straight out of a script of any Abbas Mastan directed  bollywood movie, which is full of action. There are villains, there are the oppressed female community who were at the verge of getting kidnapped and there are the real heroes who colorfully showed their heroism by chasing the villains. This Mr.Irfan Khan,Phd, Mass Communication( Recipient of Gold Medal from Minister of HRD for securing highest % in his graduation in India) got suspended recently for speaking to the media "without the permission of the lawful authorities" . A disgraceful act for any villain I must say. His villainy disappointed us here. 

Till now RTI Act, 2005 exposed many negative aspects of the AMU administration. But who knew that this would also discover the hidden qualities of the Proctor Officials in writing fictional stories( leaving apart the level of English in the report). I mean you ask by using the RTI Act to furnish any complaint letter from any girl who received threats of getting kidnapped and you will get the answer, "No records available in Proctor Office".  So sitting in the air-conditioned room of Proctor Office when one start emulating the literary qualities of Sydney Sheldon or Sharadindu Chatterjee( who wrote Bomkyesh Bakshi series) in writing thriller or inserting thrilling plots in the Departmental Inquiry without relying on single evidence or facts on record one cant but heap praise on them. Hopefully soon we can hear that teachers at AMU waiting in line to be Asst.Proctor or Dy.Proctor at AMU to hon their writing skills. I mean no doubt if this trend continues may be someday we can have some names nominated from the Proctor Office for Man Booker Prize in Fiction. 

These people do not have even a single evidence( mind it I said single) on record and they went on to write 14 page or 10 page or 6 page Inquiry Report where students forcefully close the classes, or manhandle journalists, or kidnap girls or make violent attack on Offices and Officials. If there are incidents of violence let it be recorded and take due action on the guilty as per the law. But why these people from the Proctor Office relish in lying to the world? What prompt a teacher to forget all the ethics and morality and becoming a liar in order to make students villain and there people the hero thus forgetting the fact that teachers are presumed to be the ideal for the students? Why there is no check from the higher authorities on such blatant practice of lying and rather they mouth the same words written in such fictional reports? 

In the Inquiry Report on my second suspension the Asst.Proctor Dr.Nafees Ahmad wrote that I am "playing in the hands of some disgruntled elements and sick minded people of the university who do not want to see peace, progress and prosperity in and around the campus". Very well said and good that university is also concerned about all these factors, also about the surroundings whose filthy streets recently were discussed in the yahoo groups. But when a RTI application was filed to know the names of these disgruntled elements and sick minded people the answer was again the same "No list of such disgruntled and sick minded peoples is available in this office record". So what we can interpret? That our Proctor Officials don't know what is an Inquiry Report and how to write it( which any official writes based on evidences and facts on record and not sheer imagination) and they rather believe they are in a short story writing competition organized by the AMU authorities where one must flaunt the power of imagination to frame students with as many angles as possible. What are the prizes by the way for justifying the butchering of students career with such fictional reports? Another better post at the University or immediate holding of Selection Committees and ready promotion? To quote iconic singer Bob Dylan again the answer my friend is blowing in the wind. 

There is another interesting Inquiry Report submitted by Dr. Hasan Imam, Asst. Proctor on the matters concerning Mr.Afaq Ahmad, M.Phil Mass Communication. Let me not discuss it line by line else it would be another literary review of fiction for which space is very limited. But the modus operandi in writing that is also the same to victimize this poor student who exposed the corruption in the Dining Hall of V.M.Hall and today facing the brunt that I can say. 

There is a quotation by Martin Luther King( Jr) where he lamented the silence of the good people. 

It is like, " History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. "

Next time you need to read a thriller story in your leisure time. Just order for such Inquiry Report at the Proctor Office, AMU. I bet you won't be disappointed.