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

[arisen silently]

This sounds like an RSS invasion.



On 5/26/06, Kuber Sharma <kubers at gmail.com> wrote:
> Join them at Picadilly Square...
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 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
>
> signed/-
> STUDENTS' CAMPAIGN FOR CLAIM ON BRITISH NATION
>
> Contact
> Kuber - 9818304469
>
>