Of Symbolic and the Real

A tale of the counter revolutionaries

Take an ironic Example- if somebody like Judith Butler is asked about whether this bottle of tea is a bottle of tea or not? She would never have said This is a bottle of tea. She would sayif we accept the Metaphysical notion of language identifying clearly objects(and blah..blah..blah..)taking all these into account we may not reach the Hypotheses that in the condition of our language game this can be said to be a bottle of tea.- Slavoj Zizek (speaking on Deconstruction) Rhetoric and esoteric jargons are helpful in invoking distantiation and conveniently shifting the focus of debate, but it in no way change the fact. Facts speak for themselves and it cannot be changed by the use and misuse of language game. We, in our last poster titled- Sanghi Fascism and Pseudo-Secularism- Theory and Praxis had exposed the (un)holy alliance of the RSS , Corrupt Congress and vanguards of (Pseudo)Secularism during the last UGBM. In the process of bringing out the truth, we had asked few questions to the rainbow alliance. Ironically, instead of replying to our questions, the recent rejoinder of the (Pseudo)Secularists attempted to shift the focus of debate by hiding behind the curtains of esoteric jargons and invocation of few new concepts and advices to us. We take all their suggestions and advices in due spirit, but request them to answer our questions without resorting to any further rhetorical distantiation. We reiterate some of our questions again for them with an expectation of their answers to it1) You aligned with the RSS backed ABVP and corrupt Congress backed NSUI in most shameful way to chant the slogan Laal salaam walon ko, joote maron saalo ko during the UGBM. But not even a single slogan was raised against your age old enemy ABVP and NSUI (oopswe forget ASA had a short tenured electoral alliance with NSUI during last years election which faded away immediately after their most disastrous defeat). Anyway, one wonders why did you forget your age old anti-RSS and anti-Congress slogans suddenly in the DST auditorium during UGBM? What is the politics behind this short term memory loss and the internal deal behind? Was it not the alliance/endorsement/support to RSS and corrupt Congress? 2) What are your justifications for demanding the democracy by using all undemocratic means of violence during both the UGBMs in the context of Students Union election? Is it in tune with your grand vision of setting up of new trend of violent mobocracy? What is the trajectory of student movement you are planning to impose in this peaceful campus through these violent means? 3) How do you justify your act of attacking an elected woman representative with a violent mob of more than 50, snatching away her personal belongings and important documents of the Students Union?

We are sure that you will come up with some crafted democratic explanation to the above questions and will further engage in politics of distantiation again with the play of language. We are sure that students of the campus are politically matured enough not to buy your concocted stories of symbolic violence theory. We would now like to put some real instances of violence that were perpetrated against students of the campus belonging to SC/ST/OBC communities. Strikingly all such planned attacks were instigated by Ambedkar Students Association (ASA), which has always claimed to represent the SC, ST, OBCs and minorities. Their political opportunism and hypocrisy is evident by the series of attacks which they have systematically perpetuated with precision against students from marginalized communities whenever they felt threatened by the presence of any alternative voices among themselves1. March 2013: On first day of Sukoon 2013, one SC student from Economics department, who was also in the Sukoon coordination committee was publicly threatened to face dire consequence by Two self proclaimed prominent ASA leaders in this campus. 2. March 2013: On third day of Sukoon 2013, one ST student, belonging to MCA department was beaten by ASA leaders during DJ Night. Later ASA leadership also filed a fake case against that ST student. 3. Just after an hour of this incident on SUKOON DJ Night, a Muslim student, again from MCA department was brutally attacked by more than 10 ASA leaders. 4. April 2012: An OBC and TSA Student Leader was openly manhandled by ASA students when students went to Campus Health Centre to pay their last homage to Swati Reddy, whose unfortunate suicide was a shock to the campus community at large. 5. July 2012: Two OBC students who work with Bahujan Students were beaten up in broad daylight by Prashant from ASA, and a fake SC/ST atrocity case was filed against 40 OBC students, most of them were from integrated studies. 6. August 2012: One Muslim student from Urdu department was battered and thrown out of the room by an ASA cadre who was also nominated by ASA for the Presidential post of Student Union. 7. Such is the hypocrisy of ASA that beneath the veneer of its (pseudo) revolutionary character, there lays a sheer blunt arrogance of undemocratic character compounded by its blatant greed for power. Zikrullah Khan SFI-HCU