Kerala Students Union leaders livid over Cusat move
Office-bearers unhappy with decision to nominate Irfan Habib as Cusat syndicate member
By : DC Correspondent
Update: 2015-08-23 05:30 GMT
KOCHI: Six university-level office-bearers of Kerala Students Union (KSU) have written to the NSU (I) president expressing their willingness to step down from their posts in the wake of the state government decision to nominate KSU dissident Irfan Habib to the post of Cusat syndicate member.
Those who have written the letter are Kerala University senate members A.I. Muhammed Aslam and Nabeel Naushad, Cusat senate member Praveen P, Calicut University Union chairman V.A. Ashif, Calicut University senate member Renjith and Kerala University executive member Ajil Koshy.
Irfan had defeated the KSU official nominee to become the senate member of Cusat and despite protests from the office-bearers and state committee of KSU, the state government nominated him to the post of member of syndicate along with another Congress nominee R.S. Sasikumar and five others from different sections in the UDF.
Irfan had been suspended from KSU following the dissidence act. The KSU pointed out that promoting dissidence in this manner will be a setback to Congress especially in the wake of the coming local body elections and the Assembly elections next year.
The KSU office-bearers and university union office-bearers have conveyed their protest to the AICC general secretary in charge of the state Mukul Wasnik and it is understood that he has got in touch with Chief Minister Oommen Chandy to understand the issues.
The Chief Minister is learnt to have told Wasnik that he will verify things and get back. “We are hopeful that the central leadership will intervene constructively to sort things out,” said a KSU leader.