09-28-2007, 07:27 AM
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Durgesh Nandan Jha | New Delhi
The Congress and the BJP have joined hands in Delhi University to keep the Left out of the Delhi University Teachers' Association (DUTA) Executive Committee. Academics on Action and Development (AAD) chairman SS Rathi, supported by the Congress has joined hands with BJP supported National Democratic Teachers' Front (NDTF) to keep the Left supported Democratic Teachers' Front (DTF) out of the fray. But interestingly, Ashwini Shankar, who is a senior Congress functionary and had polled highest votes in the DUTA elections, has not been included in the group. The decision was taken in the meeting of the DUTA Executive held on Thursday to elect the DUTA office-bearers.
Apparently, a meeting was held at the Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee (DPCC) office chaired by JP Agarwal to sort out the differences between the Congress factions but without any result. When asked, AAD member and new DUTA president Aditya Narayan Mishra said that Shankar was offered to choose a co-opted member but he wanted office, which was not possible. "We offered him to choose a co-opted member for the executive Committee but he wanted to become office bearer, which was not possible. There are only four posts for the office bearers and the candidates were pre-decided," said Mishra. However, when contacted, Shankar said that Mishra or any other senior functionary of AAD did not contact him. Shankar is a long time member of the Delhi State Congress and had been contesting DUTA elections on the tickets of Congress affiliated Indian National teachers' Congress (INTEC) for more than a decade. This year, he was not given a ticket from INTEC and contested DUTA elections independently. He polled second highest votes in the elections held on August 29.
AAD and INTEC, that contested the DUTA elections together this year, had eight candidates elected for the executive committee and they needed one more to get majority. When Shankar refused, they joined hands with NDTF that had two candidates elected on the executive committee. The Left could not have even a single candidate either in the executive committee of DUTA or as co-opted member. "DTF had proposed five members for cooption. Out of them, two were rejected because their consent was not there. In the remaining three, they got only four votes from their group whereas, three members proposed by AAD and two by NDTF got 10 votes each and were elected," said AAD member. The new composition of DUTA has, three office bearers from INTEC and one from AAD. In cooption, there are three members of AAD and two of NDTF.
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo--> Cong, BJP ally to keep Left out of DUTA Durgesh Nandan Jha | New Delhi
The Congress and the BJP have joined hands in Delhi University to keep the Left out of the Delhi University Teachers' Association (DUTA) Executive Committee. Academics on Action and Development (AAD) chairman SS Rathi, supported by the Congress has joined hands with BJP supported National Democratic Teachers' Front (NDTF) to keep the Left supported Democratic Teachers' Front (DTF) out of the fray. But interestingly, Ashwini Shankar, who is a senior Congress functionary and had polled highest votes in the DUTA elections, has not been included in the group. The decision was taken in the meeting of the DUTA Executive held on Thursday to elect the DUTA office-bearers.
Apparently, a meeting was held at the Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee (DPCC) office chaired by JP Agarwal to sort out the differences between the Congress factions but without any result. When asked, AAD member and new DUTA president Aditya Narayan Mishra said that Shankar was offered to choose a co-opted member but he wanted office, which was not possible. "We offered him to choose a co-opted member for the executive Committee but he wanted to become office bearer, which was not possible. There are only four posts for the office bearers and the candidates were pre-decided," said Mishra. However, when contacted, Shankar said that Mishra or any other senior functionary of AAD did not contact him. Shankar is a long time member of the Delhi State Congress and had been contesting DUTA elections on the tickets of Congress affiliated Indian National teachers' Congress (INTEC) for more than a decade. This year, he was not given a ticket from INTEC and contested DUTA elections independently. He polled second highest votes in the elections held on August 29.
AAD and INTEC, that contested the DUTA elections together this year, had eight candidates elected for the executive committee and they needed one more to get majority. When Shankar refused, they joined hands with NDTF that had two candidates elected on the executive committee. The Left could not have even a single candidate either in the executive committee of DUTA or as co-opted member. "DTF had proposed five members for cooption. Out of them, two were rejected because their consent was not there. In the remaining three, they got only four votes from their group whereas, three members proposed by AAD and two by NDTF got 10 votes each and were elected," said AAD member. The new composition of DUTA has, three office bearers from INTEC and one from AAD. In cooption, there are three members of AAD and two of NDTF.