NSF urges Kalam to accept resignation
Karaiba Chawang
Kohima | February 28
Nagaland University Vice Chancellor Prof GD Sharma was made to resign under duress for the third time today by members of the Nagaland University Teachers Association (NUTA) and the Post Graduate Students’ Union. The protestors included teachers and students from the three campuses of Lumami, Kohima and Medziphema.
They gheraoed the NU campus today at around 11 am and urged the VC to step down honourably. However, even after three hours, Sharma effused to budge under the pretext that his resignation was already with the Chancellor- the President of India and that he was waiting only for the Ministry of Human Resource Development.
This irked the teachers and students even more, thus inviting forceful entry into his chamber. After hurling a barrage of insults and humiliating comments, the protestors compelled the VC to pen down his resignation. The agitators had adopted the same tactics in the years 2001 and 2002.
Sharma then wrote his resignation letter saying he had done so on the demands of the NUTA and the PGSU. More embarrassment awaited the VC when he was not allowed to leave in his vehicle with the protestors citing that as he had resigned he was not entitled to his conveyance any longer. Amidst shouts that he should leave in a taxi, the Administration arrived and whisked him away.
NUTA members were however skeptical that the VC would relinquish his chair but cautioned that they would mount more pressure against Sharma.
Meanwhile, in the backdrop of the resignation tendered by Nagaland University Vice-Chancellor Professor GD Sharma, the Naga Students Federation (NSF) has strongly asked the President of India, who is the university’s Visitor, to “accept the resignation thereby delivering the long-awaited justice.”
Maintaining that from the day GD Sharma’s name was nominated, the NSF, through it President Pushika Aomi and speaker WH Maring, in a letter to the Visitor stated that the organization had been urging the concerned authorities that he did not satisfy minimum qualifications required for the post of VC and that his inclusion itself spelled of ‘dirty motives’ behind the nomination.
“Problems after problems under his Vice-Chancellorship prove beyond doubt the integrity of Mr. GD Sharma. Allowing him to continue as Vice Chancellor will tantamount to encouraging corruption and denial of student’s rights to quality education under an able administrator” the letter stated. It also tantamount to permitting him to embezzle public money, it added.
The NSF urged for immediate removal of the Vice Chancellor and called for setting up of a search committee for a qualified person to replace him. “This time the NSF does not see any more reason why failed methods have to be redeployed.
The NSF would go to any extent to remove him from the chair if it is for the betterment of the students’ community in particular and the Nagas in general” the letter warned.
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