Jammu&kashmir Democratic Youth Federation
Jammu & Kashmir Democratic Youth Federation (JKDYF) is a Political and Social Youth Organisation. We PROTEST against every INJUSTICE, EXPLOITATION, and work TOGETHER for the welfare and betterment of YOUTH, Society.
PREAMBLE & CONSTITUTION OF JKDYF
Preamble to the constitution
Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Youth Federation (JKDYF) undertakes the task of organising the youth of the villages and towns in Jammu & Kashmir State into a well-knit all-State youth organisation, and build a powerful youth movement to fight for a democratic, just, and a rational society in Jammu & Kashmir and for the upliftment and betterment of the lot of the youth as a whole. It shall strive to revive and strengthen the Kashmiri ethos, based on harmony, fellow feeling, tolerance and liberal thinking.
Young men and women are an integral part of our society and their upliftment and betterment, in the final analysis are dependent upon and determined by all round development of our State: industrial, agricultural and educational, and the material and cultural progress of the workers, peasants, middle classes and all other progressive people which constitute 90% of our population. Since many of the difficulties and problems that confront youth are directly connected with and dependent upon the prevailing socio-economic conditions and since the young men and women share all the sufferings, oppression and exploitation, their families are subjected to, they can not but evince keen interest in the socio-economic condition of the State and its radical all round development and progress.
The JKDYF is aware of the fact that the State was subjected to a foreign and dynastic rule and ruthless exploitation by native feudals, it produced nothing but mass scale poverty, hunger, misery, squalor for the vast majority of our people, forcing them to lead a sub-human existence. More than half a century of class rule and political uncertainty prevailing in the State, have done very little to alter their degrading and inhuman condition and it helped the growth of the domination of a handful of wealthy vested interests, which gave rise to divisive tendencies and obscurantism, hitherto unknown to the State. Earlier the Younger generation had played their proud and glorious part in fighting for the achievement of political independence, now it is the bounden duty of our Younger generation to actively engage themselves in the struggle for the liquidation of the evil legacies of dependence, backwardness and poverty, and for the laying of the foundation for a really free, prosperous and progressive future for our State and peaceful resolution of all contentions issues through reconciliation and dialogue.
Experience in post independent India, as well as the lessons from several other countries in the world, demonstrates the truth that the evil legacies of colonialism and backwardness cannot be liquidated and the State cannot be lifted out of its present morass unless the last vestiges of foreign and native exploitation are put an end to, unless feudal and semi-feudal landlordism is uprooted, unless social and economic injustice is eliminated and unless political uncertainty in the State is addressed through a process of reconciliation and mutual dialogue. The JKDYF as a forward looking and progressive youth organisation shall make common cause with most of the political parties, groups, class and mass organisation which pledge themselves to the cause of down-trodden people of the State, democracy, accountability and transparency, brotherhood, harmony, progress and peace, and support our aims and objectives, notwithstanding the fact that there are different and divergent views among them as to what they have come to consider the meaning of democracy and progress and the means and methods of achieving the same.
Our Youth is confronted with the spectre of unemployment in its most ominous proportion due to the bankrupt socio-economic policies pursued by the ruling classes. Against the background of this stark reality they are sought to be lulled with such shameless, demagogic slogans as poverty and unemployment will be eliminated and progress will be established by the ruling classes. The JKDYF is of the considered view that there are politics behind such deceptive slogans and platitudes and the youth community has no other alternative but to advance more and more united struggles against unemployment and poverty.
The JKDYF realises the fact that students constitute an important section of the youth and is aware of the urgent necessity of overhauling the present educational system and developing a scientific and democratic education suited to social needs and capable of developing all the abilities and creative faculties of students. Education can not achieve these aims unless the medium of instruction is the mother tongue and all private educational institutions are nationalised. Education should be freed of its pro-rich and elitist shackles. The JKDYF shall also encourage a free and frank discussion on how to rid the State of continuing violence and achieve progress and prosperity for the youth and the correct means and methods of achieving it. At the same time, the JKDYF is alive to the need of launching mass literacy campaigns, which should be state financed and should involve both official and non- official organisations participating fully to fight backward ideas and ignorance in our society.
Backward and decadent culture is polluting the minds of youth in the narrow interest of the ruling classes and there is the need for a progressive cultural policy, involving a balanced development of the mind and body, which should be propagated widely among the people and be easily accessible to them.
The youth movement is an integral part of the wider democratic movement of the common masses, the workers, peasants and other progressive forces. It can neither achieve its immediate demands nor realise its general aims and objectives except by a combined and united effort of all the progressive, democratic and forward looking forces in our State. As such, it seeks the co-operation and support of the democratic movements of workers, peasants and masses in general. It extends sympathy, co-operation and solidarity to all these movements and their aspirations. It raises its voice against all the exploitation and oppression and seeks the advancement of youth on a rational basis.
The JKDYF is aware of the divisive and disruptive trends that seek to divide the youth in the name of community, caste and place of birth, notes with grave concern the growing aggressiveness on the part of communal and obscurantist organisations which can only damage the basic interests of the youth. Their policies, based on narrow divisive outlook, not only undermine the unity of the youth and the masses at large but pose a grave danger to the integrity of our State. The JKDYF is committed to fight all such disruptive forces. The JKDYF also rejects the slogan of trifurcation or any other division of the State on narrow considerations. Youth cannot be prevented from uniting in struggle for a better future. The JKDYF also can not remain indifferent to the distortion of the slogan Youth power. It is of the firm opinion that youth are an integral part of the society and only by linking with the democratic movement the youth can advance their cause.
The JKDYF is deeply conscious of the fact that our society is based on great values of Noor-ud-Din Noorani and Lal Ded, which envisage a just and humane outlook. The recent efforts to undermine these values need to be fought back to achieve peace with dignity in the State. Narrow divisive approach and outmoded outlook of life, are not only hindering the progress and cohesion of the democratic and progressive movements, but they also threaten the unity and integrity of the State. The JKDYF pledges to uncompromisingly fight against every such outmoded and parochial manifestations.
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