JNU student union demands review of Lyngdoh Committee recommendations on student elections

NEW DELHI: The absolute worst thing you can say about a particular composition of the Jawaharlal Nehru University students' union, is that it's "Lyngdoh's Union." It's nearly as bad as being called a liberal-democrat. JNU students' resistance to the implementation of Lyngdoh committee recommendations had stopped campus elections for four years. On November 13, the current JNUSU will be leading a "mass deputation" to the Chief Justice of India to demand a "review" of the recommendations.

"Right from 2008 onwards, when the Supreme Court stayed the JNUSU elections in the name of 'non-compliance' to Lyngdoh Committee Recommendations (LCR), the JNU student community has been engaged in a protracted battle - legal as well as political - for the restoration of the JNUSU Constitution against the arbitrary imposition of LCR. At one stage of the legal battle, in Nov 2009, the strength of our case led to the two-judge Supreme Court bench of Hon'ble Justices Markanday Katju and A. K. Ganguly to refer the matter to a Constitutional Bench. At another level, the indefinite time length of this process forced us to go for an interim negotiated arrangement of accepting the LCR provisions with few relaxations to vacate the prolonged stay on JNUSU elections to fight back the mounting assaults on students' rights unleashed by the government and the administration in the absence of an elected JNUSU. However, the JNU student community always maintained that the present JNUSU elections conducted through marginally relaxed LCR is an interim arrangement and the legal- political battle against the LCR has to be strengthened through all means," says a statement from JNUSU.

The statement further says, "The LCR was introduced in the name of curbing money and muscle power in student union elections. The only way in which campuses can be kept free of these ills, is if the student movement actively confronts and challenges the ruling class politics, with a democratic political culture of its own." "This is precisely how the JNU student movement and its JNUSU Constitution have achieved what all sorts of other codes of conduct have failed to do: an election process free of corruption and violence," said Akbar Chawdhary, JNUSU president. "We therefore also want to restore the JNUSU constitution to defend our hard won vibrant political culture," he added.

JNUSU has called for a mass deputation to the Chief Justice of India urging him to form the Constitutional bench on the matter, as held by the 2 Judge bench in Nov 2009. Students with gather at the Supreme Court tomorrow (13 November) from 2.30 pm onwards and will submit a memorandum.

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