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Ram Temple plan opposed

Indian students to stage hunger strike

By Sabir Mustafa
Several hundred students belonging to the All-India Students Federation (AISF) will stage a 48-hour hunger strike In the Uttar Pradesh city of Lucknow on May 19 to firotest against plans by Hindu undamentallsts to build a temple in place of the Babri mosque in Ayodhya.
Subhrangsu Bhattacharya, a secretary of the All-Indla (national) Council of the AISF, told The Daily Star Tuesday that the hunger strike would be followed-up with more programmes of action against the on-going movement to build a
temple dedicated to Lord Ram on the site of the 400-year old Babrl mosque.
The students and people of India will never allow the mosque to be touched." Bhattacharya, who led a two-member AISF guest delegation to the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) national council, held Monday last. said.
The AISF Is one of India's largest student organisation with over two million members. 35,000 of whom arc from the state of West Bengal. Although the AISF claims not to be affiliated to any political party, the Federation's antiImperialist. antl-communallst and pro-socialist orientation gives it a close Ideological Identification with the Communist Party of India (CPI).
Bhattacharya said that the Indian people were basically secular, but that they had been mislead over the years by "conspiracy and propaganda of fundamentalist forces such as the fiharatlya Janata Party or BJP."
The second member of the AISF delegation to the BCL council. Surangama Bhattacharya, the vice-president of the West Bengal State Council of the Federation, said that close unity between the student communities of Bangladesh and India as well as among those of other Aslan countries was essential to combat religious fundamental Ism and communallsm of all shades.
On another Issue related to religion. Subhrangsu Bhattacharya said that the AISF was totally in favour of the Mondal Commission Report, which recommended that 49.5 per cent of all government Jobs in India be reserved for people classified as belonging to "backward castes.'
Bhattacharya said over 70 per cent of the 830 million
people of India were disadvantaged. and they needed some "positive discrimination" like Job oilotas to move forward.
"Why should the upper caste enjoy all the benefits of progress?", he asked, adding that at present, government. Jobs such as In administration, police department etc. were overwhelmingly filled by upper caste people. As a result, he said, lower caste people were not getting a fair deal from the government machinery.
On another Issue, the two AISF leaders said that the collapse of the Soviet Union and resurgence of the United States were putting sovereignty of Third World countries under great pressure. They said India was now being dictated to by the US to an unacceptable degree.
“If US Interference and pressure on India continue, then the people of India will revolt. They will not stand It any longer, because they are anti-Imperialists to the core of their hearts." Subhrangsu Bhattacharya concluded.