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R. Ramakumar, member, Kerala State Planning Board, and Professor, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, has been chosen arsenic the legislature nominee for the search-cum-selection committee that volition prime a caller Vice-Chancellor (V-C) for the University of Calicut (CU).
Mr. Ramakumar got elected astatine a peculiar legislature gathering held connected the assemblage field astatine Tenhipalam successful Malappuram connected Thursday (December 18). According to sources, 58 members participated successful the predetermination process presided implicit by elder subordinate M. Rajan. Mr. Ramakumar was projected for the station by the pro-Left members.
Those belonging to the United Democratic Front (UDF) projected the sanction of Achuthsankar S. Nair, erstwhile Director, Centre for Development of Imaging Technology, and the pro-BJP members projected the sanction of K. Muralidharan, main scientist, Central Plantation Crops Research Institute. Mr. Ramakumar bagged 33 votes, Mr. Nair got 20 votes, and Mr. Muralidharan got 4 votes.
This is the 3rd clip the legislature is choosing its nominee for the panel. Dharmaraj Adat and A. Sabu, who were earlier picked for the post, connected August 23 and October 30, respectively, had declined to instrumentality up the job. Thursday’s gathering was held pursuing the absorption of the Kerala High Court, wherever the State authorities had challenged the Chancellor’s constitution of the search-cum-selection committee connected October 31. The tribunal had besides asked the assemblage to guarantee the consent of the legislature nominee.
Meanwhile, erstwhile pro-UDF members asked if Mr. Ramakumar had fixed his consent to beryllium successful the panel, pro-Left members reportedly replied that the Registrar would pass him of the senate’s decision.
