03-19-2007, 11:35 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>IGNCA chief resigns on health grounds </b>
Pioneer.com
Santanu Banerjee | New Delhi
Sonia asked Vatsayan to quit after fiscal bungling
<b>Amidst allegation of massive financial irregularities and faced with an adverse CAG report, president of the Indira Gandhi National Centre of Arts (IGNCA) Kapila Vatsayan has put in her papers.</b>
Sources said that while Vatsayan has officially resigned on health grounds, but the directive to do so came from the Congress high command.
Vatsayan's resignation came ahead of the disposal of a PIL in the Delhi High Court alleging serious financial irregularities in the IGNCA.
<b>The adverse CAG report during her earlier tenure as academic director of the trust during 1995-1999, is also under the high court's scrutiny in another PIL filed last month.</b>
Sources confirmed that recently the <b>Congress leadership, which does not want any new scandal ahead of the Uttar Pradesh election and when the UPA is under pressure from allies for various political reasons, asked her to step down.</b>
Vatsayan is known for her proximity with Congress president Sonia Gandhi, and sources said she could not have been forced to step down without the explicit directive from 10 Janpath.
Interestingly, Vatsayan's resignation came in the wake of a Delhi High Court order upholding her reinduction as trust member on February 2, 2005. The PIL had questioned her reinduction alleging that top Congress leadership exercised political influence to bend rules and regulations of the trust for the purpose.
Subsequently,<b> she was made the chairperson of the Executive Committee of the IGNCA in July and took over as president in October the same year. </b>
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Pioneer.com
Santanu Banerjee | New Delhi
Sonia asked Vatsayan to quit after fiscal bungling
<b>Amidst allegation of massive financial irregularities and faced with an adverse CAG report, president of the Indira Gandhi National Centre of Arts (IGNCA) Kapila Vatsayan has put in her papers.</b>
Sources said that while Vatsayan has officially resigned on health grounds, but the directive to do so came from the Congress high command.
Vatsayan's resignation came ahead of the disposal of a PIL in the Delhi High Court alleging serious financial irregularities in the IGNCA.
<b>The adverse CAG report during her earlier tenure as academic director of the trust during 1995-1999, is also under the high court's scrutiny in another PIL filed last month.</b>
Sources confirmed that recently the <b>Congress leadership, which does not want any new scandal ahead of the Uttar Pradesh election and when the UPA is under pressure from allies for various political reasons, asked her to step down.</b>
Vatsayan is known for her proximity with Congress president Sonia Gandhi, and sources said she could not have been forced to step down without the explicit directive from 10 Janpath.
Interestingly, Vatsayan's resignation came in the wake of a Delhi High Court order upholding her reinduction as trust member on February 2, 2005. The PIL had questioned her reinduction alleging that top Congress leadership exercised political influence to bend rules and regulations of the trust for the purpose.
Subsequently,<b> she was made the chairperson of the Executive Committee of the IGNCA in July and took over as president in October the same year. </b>
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