Imphal, April 29 2009: Student organisations AMSU and DESAM have alleged that certain individuals who manipulated manipur University Students' union election process to their advantage and to position themselves as MUSU functionaries had been issuing misleading statements through the media.

These individuals posing as the authorities and occupying Students' Home in the varsity should immediately cease making theatrical comments, said a joint statement of AMSU and DESAM while asking the Vice Chancellor, Registrar and authorities concerned of the varsity to do the needful as such a sordid precedent if re-enacted by other students in the future is certain to demean the highest institute of learning in the State.

Contending that the MUSU election needs to be reviewed and revoked and until an arrangement is made no individual or group should indulge in activities that would vitiate the academic atmosphere, the joint statement also stressed that the VC, Registrar and other MU officials consider the issue with all seriousness.

claiming that the poll process has many faults but carried out at the behest of some individuals, AMSU and DESAM said from the issuance of election notification to prohibiting preparation of identity cards, insistence on producing/attaching original certificate at the time of filing nomination only for the circular to be nullified after the lost date of filing nomination papers that provisional certificates could substitute the original document is a testimony of the MUSU election conducted on the sly, elucidated the student bodies.

recounting resignation of Prof RK Hemkumar as the RO on the day of scrutiny, alleged extraction of signature of the Asst Registrar Rashmi for appointment as the RO without the knowledge of the Dean of Students' Welfare and flashing of the office charge hand-over report through the media that to without consent of MU justify AMSU-DESAM's assertion that the MUSU election process was in violation of the prescribe norms, the joint statement maintained.

Rather than the need for AMSU-DESAM to remind that the MUSU election had not been conducted in accordance to rules and regulations, extensive publication of the matter in state dailies from April 15 till date leaves no room to speculate that the public might still be naive on who is on the wrong side, the bodies observed and expressed that those who manipulated the election process to his/her advantage is also certain to have realised their futile attempt to wrap the entire episode.

Opining that statements of clarification issued through the media by those individuals who had erred or acted to serve interest of the guilty ones testify that the MUSU election was carried out in contravention of prescribed norms, the joint statements issued by presidents LC Santosh and I Jamesbond Mangang of the DESAM and AMSU respectively further affirmed that the MU authorities ordering enquiry on the matter underscores that conspiracy theory in the MUSU presidential election could not be ruled out.

Under such a circumstance including the MU declaration that recognition had not been accorded to the new MUSU office bearers, it would be foolhardy for all concerned to assume that the MUSU election had been conducted in the proper way, they cautioned.

therefore till the matter has been resolved amicably MU authorities should initiate all possible measures to prevent entry of unauthorised person/s to the Students' Home or publish statements in the name of MUSU so as to preserve sanctity of the varsity, the joint statement said.

While demanding that the students' Home be declared a 'restricted area', AMSU-DESAM also called upon the MU authorities to strive for solving the matter at the earliest so as to present the only Central University of the State in a palatable manner ahead of the arrival of the Chancellor Prof PN Shrivastava tomorrow.

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