[Reader-list] Please JOIN pro-reservation agitation in London

[Kuber Sharma]

Join them at Picadilly Square...

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From: Kuber Sharma <kubers at gmail.com>
Date: May 26, 2006 2:45 AM
Subject: Starting our Agitation

Dear Friends,
  Jaibheem

Indians Campaign for claim on all Nations has decided to start its
campaign on 29th May evening by holding a public meeting in favour of
reservation in LSE. From 30th morning we will start our Dharna in front
of Picadilly Square in London. Some of us will go on hunger strike. We
will start with relay hunger strike with more students joining in. The
aim of our hunger strike and dharna is to mobilise more indians,
youths as well as other professionals to come out in support of
Reservation policy and to oppose the nationalist biases of Media, Academia
and black mail of nationalist Britishers and also to
force Blair government to fulfill its obligation effectively.

We are in contact with pro-reservation students from different parts
of the old empire. Many of them have assured their participation in our
protest in London. Within a week we are hoping to have students from
each one of the ex colonies of Great Britain sitting on hunger
strike and dharna in London. Right now our plan is to focus our protest
in London only. Given our limited means it will be appropriate for us
to focus our agitation at one place. With the time period gradually we
can coordinate with students from other part of the world and bring
all of us under one Umbrella and make concerted efforts.

We call students from various part of the old empire to flood London in
coming days. We are small group of students without any financial
means so it is must that those students who can afford traveling and
staying in London should come. The only thing we can do is to provide
them the space in our rooms for their stay.

It is most important that our intellectuals and scholars should join
us. We appeal to them to come to London and at least stay with us for
one day. This will boost our confidence and help us to mobilise more
support from Indian community.

We also appeal our professionals to come to London, if possible, or
support us in what ever way they feel they can.

TOGETHER ALL OF US CAN REALLY BRING DESIRED CHANGES IN THE SOCIETY

The main rationale behind our agitation are

1. Stupid Indian reservationists has provided us a golden opportunity to
bring caste and national discourse in mainstream. As we all are aware of the
fact that British media, accademia and civil society always maintain
conspiratory silence on horrors of colonial period and always try to hide
nation based discrimination and inequality in the name of merit. In fact
they have till now successfully denied us the space to speak, raise our
concernssince independence. Now they only, by default, have provided us an
opportunity to organise and fight  discrimination;

2. This is also an historic opportunity for us to pressurise British
government to take stock of its measures for empowerment of
underprivileged Indians and demand effective implementation of such
government policies;

3. To oppose elitist and castist biases in educational system of UK and to
bust the myth of British merit. Just because we our PCI is so much lesser,
we should not pay full fee at any British Acdemic Institution.

4. And the most important point is to take revenge for over two centuries of
British exploitation of our fine nation. It is high time that we demand
effective reforms for Indians.

OUR DEMANDS

1. The British Government must fulfill its constitutional obligations by
implementing reservations for all Indians in all government jobs,
private or government educational institutions,army,judiciary and
super speciality courses.

2. The British Government should also make legal provisions for reservation
in private sector for underprivileged Indians.

3. The British Government must bring out a White Paper on reservation
policy. It is must so as to know how far it has been implemented. It is fact
that not even 50 % of reservation is being fulfilled by ruling white
class of UK. They have denied us the maximum benefits of
reservation policy till now.

4. Effective land reforms are must for empowerment of Indians. So we
demand government to carry land reforms in every part of the UK and not just
southall.

5. We also demand to amend nationalist & elitist biases in their education
system by
    a. redesigning the syllabuses to generate awareness about colonisation
of India;
    b. providing non-british, anti-caste icons prominent space and
to remove completely britishl myths and misconceptions, taught to
us, in the name of International History and Culture.
    c. Ban all classes at Oxford and Cambridge.
    d. Restructuring competitive exams to remove biases that favours
elite class/caste students
    e. compulsory couses of history, political science, sociology for
students from technical and professional institutes.
     f. More recruitment of faculties in premier institutions from
Indian background to correct the caste imbalance and to break the monopoly
of british people over such institutions and to
provide opportunity for blossoming of real merit, efficiency and
excellence.
    g. Higher education must be provided in Hindi and Punjabi or all
primary schools must be in Telugu medium
    h. Government must spend 10% of GDP on Education focusing on
quality primary education for underprivileged

6. We demand punishment for anti-reservation protesters for hurting
sentiments and showing their castist nature by sweeping roads,
cleaning shoes and raising castist slogans.

7. We condemn castist Indian media for instigating the protest against
reservations and providing space to biased. one-sided, castist
coverage. We also demand for punishment of  journalists, cartoonist,
editors for making fun of Indians and casting aspersion on the
merit of Indians without any concrete proof or datas and thus
showing its true castist nature.

JAI BHEEM

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STUDENTS' CAMPAIGN FOR CLAIM ON BRITISH NATION

Contact
Kuber - 9818304469
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