Institute says it failed to delete his name from website
UPA Presidential candidate Pranab Mukherjee resigned as Chairman of the Council of the Indian Statistical Institute on June 20, before filing his nomination on June 28, institute officials said on Monday.
“Mr. Mukherjee resigned as Council chairman on June 20. It was a mistake on our part that his name continued to be on the institute’s website,” Director Bimal K Roy told The Hindu. After the matter came to Mr. Roy’s notice, the name was removed.
Mr. Mukherjee’s rival and former Lok Sabha Speaker P.A. Sangma has written to Rajya Sabha Secretary-General and Returning Office V.K. Agnihotri, demanding that the former Union Minister’s nomination be cancelled as he continued to hold an office of profit.
Institute officials, however, said the post is honorary and it is not an office of profit, and Mr. Mukherjee was not paid any salary during his tenure.
Mr. Roy said Mr Mukherjee became the Chairman in September 2004. He was actively involved for eight years in the institute’s activities and instrumental in setting up centres of the institute in Chennai and the Northeast.
Professor M.G.K. Menon, president of the Council, will hold the additional charge till a new chairman is selected.
I find it rather strange that The Hindu has not given due coverage to the Forgery allegations on Pranab Mukherjee, i mean it relates to no less than the president's post. Also i see that you have not followed up on the argument you had given in your newspaper a few days back, as to why the ISI chairman's post is NOT an Office of Profit since 2006. These events reflect poorly on a newspaper which i otherwise hold in very high regard.
The Director , Indian Statistical Institute is hierarchially under the Chairman and so he can not state that the Chairman has resigned. Only the 'competent authority' after due recommendations can accept the resignation. In this case the procedure does not appear to have been followed, as per se, the procedure is in itself time consuming.
Normally chairman's resignation must go to board and they should
receive it, meet and then consider to accept it. was proper
procedure for resignation of Chairman followed ? Probably not and now
all cover up started.
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