RA WCom: Open Letter to Anandi about her 24th January post on Auronet
Dear Anandi,
We would like to clarify some of the misleading statements in your latest Auronet posting on 24th January 2024.
You are misrepresenting the situation for the following reasons:
1. The cases filed by us or other Aurovilians at the Madras High Court are not against the Government of India. The respondents are the Secretary and those Aurovilians who ignored the decision of the Residents' Assembly and falsely claimed to be the Working Committee. The cases are aimed at upholding the Residents' Assembly's functions as per the Auroville Foundation Act, a law unanimously voted by the Parliament of India in 1988. The latest developments as we have seen in Auroville are disregarding an Act of Parliament. Officers of the Auroville Foundation are not equated to the Government of India, although some are appointed by the Ministry of Education. They are employees of an autonomous body called the Auroville Foundation which consists of three statutory bodies: Residents' Assembly, Governing Board and International Advisory Council.
2. Cases about Auroville's governance started only after fabricated criminal cases were registered against three legitimate members of the Working Committee and three other Aurovilians, while they were simply trying to uphold the results of a Residents' Assembly Decision. It was necessary to take proper legal action so as to ensure that the residents' voices are upheld and protected.
3. Most members of our team and many Aurovilians who have expressed disagreement with the administration's current style are targeted with actions of retaliation and an intention to expel them from their home, from Auroville, and sometimes even from India. With your post, you seem to be explicitly supporting and even encouraging such actions of retaliation - do you realize this?
4. The Madras High Court in its order of 12th August 2022 established that the Governing Board, International Advisory Council, and Residents' Assembly should work in mutuality. In other words, in harmony. This judgement has been appealed by the Secretary. You talk of a "harmonious development of Auroville" but at the same time you support the people who are fighting in Court against the principles of Harmony and Collaboration. Is it not our duty to resist, in every way possible, when we see the founding principles of Auroville being violated, and in an unlawful manner?
5. You ask "who supports such actions", referring to the cases initiated by us. The answer is clear: we are acting under the authority of the Residents' Assembly as the Working Committee selected by it, and we have been striving to uphold its decisions and its functions as enshrined in the Auroville Foundation Act. Such decisions have seen the participation of hundreds of residents of Auroville, and in one case of almost 1200, the highest participation rates in Auroville's history.
6. A question can be made to you and the handful of people working in the groups constituted by the Governing Board and the Secretary's Office: who authorised you to silently approve or actively support the takeover of the community's daily life and the harassment of Aurovilians with threats to visas, cutting of maintenances, threats to places of work, threats to housing, and opaque and callous speculative land exchanges? How is this conducive to a "harmonious development of Auroville"?
We urge you to open your eyes and to withdraw from participating or silently supporting what has revealed itself to be a full takeover of Auroville for hidden agendas and private interests.
Auroville's existence as a living laboratory and creative experiment for the evolution of consciousness is under threat.
May those few individuals who are supporting the ongoing takeover, including yourself, realize what is really happening and withdraw their support before it is too late.
Auroville is unique in the world. It is a beacon of hope. This light is what we are standing for.
The Working Committee selected by the RA
Aravinda, Bharathy, Chali, Hemant, Sauro, Valli
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"content": "RA WCom: Open Letter to Anandi about her 24th January post on Auronet\n\nDear Anandi,\n \nWe would like to clarify some of the misleading statements in your latest Auronet posting on 24th January 2024.\n \nYou are misrepresenting the situation for the following reasons: \n \n 1. The cases filed by us or other Aurovilians at the Madras High Court are not against the Government of India. The respondents are the Secretary and those Aurovilians who ignored the decision of the Residents' Assembly and falsely claimed to be the Working Committee. The cases are aimed at upholding the Residents' Assembly's functions as per the Auroville Foundation Act, a law unanimously voted by the Parliament of India in 1988. The latest developments as we have seen in Auroville are disregarding an Act of Parliament. Officers of the Auroville Foundation are not equated to the Government of India, although some are appointed by the Ministry of Education. They are employees of an autonomous body called the Auroville Foundation which consists of three statutory bodies: Residents' Assembly, Governing Board and International Advisory Council.\n2. Cases about Auroville's governance started only after fabricated criminal cases were registered against three legitimate members of the Working Committee and three other Aurovilians, while they were simply trying to uphold the results of a Residents' Assembly Decision. It was necessary to take proper legal action so as to ensure that the residents' voices are upheld and protected. \n 3. Most members of our team and many Aurovilians who have expressed disagreement with the administration's current style are targeted with actions of retaliation and an intention to expel them from their home, from Auroville, and sometimes even from India. With your post, you seem to be explicitly supporting and even encouraging such actions of retaliation - do you realize this? \n 4. The Madras High Court in its order of 12th August 2022 established that the Governing Board, International Advisory Council, and Residents' Assembly should work in mutuality. In other words, in harmony. This judgement has been appealed by the Secretary. You talk of a \"harmonious development of Auroville\" but at the same time you support the people who are fighting in Court against the principles of Harmony and Collaboration. Is it not our duty to resist, in every way possible, when we see the founding principles of Auroville being violated, and in an unlawful manner?\n 5. You ask \"who supports such actions\", referring to the cases initiated by us. The answer is clear: we are acting under the authority of the Residents' Assembly as the Working Committee selected by it, and we have been striving to uphold its decisions and its functions as enshrined in the Auroville Foundation Act. Such decisions have seen the participation of hundreds of residents of Auroville, and in one case of almost 1200, the highest participation rates in Auroville's history. \n 6. A question can be made to you and the handful of people working in the groups constituted by the Governing Board and the Secretary's Office: who authorised you to silently approve or actively support the takeover of the community's daily life and the harassment of Aurovilians with threats to visas, cutting of maintenances, threats to places of work, threats to housing, and opaque and callous speculative land exchanges? How is this conducive to a \"harmonious development of Auroville\"? \nWe urge you to open your eyes and to withdraw from participating or silently supporting what has revealed itself to be a full takeover of Auroville for hidden agendas and private interests. \nAuroville's existence as a living laboratory and creative experiment for the evolution of consciousness is under threat. \n \nMay those few individuals who are supporting the ongoing takeover, including yourself, realize what is really happening and withdraw their support before it is too late. \nAuroville is unique in the world. It is a beacon of hope. This light is what we are standing for.\n \nThe Working Committee selected by the RA\nAravinda, Bharathy, Chali, Hemant, Sauro, Valli",
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