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NSS director board backs leadership

By Our Staff Reporter

KOTTAYAM Feb. 12. A meeting of the director board of the Nair Service Society (NSS) held here today endorsed the steps taken by the leadership during the Changassery college imbroglio and reiterated that the community and the NSS were determined to thwart any move from any quarters to rein in the organisation through intimidation and smear campaigns.

In a statement issued after the meeting of the Board of Directors, the NSS supremo, P.K. Naryana Panicker, stressed the secular credentials of the organisation and said they were not interested in unnecessarily picking quarrels with any community or political party. "The NSS is a secular organisation which stands for the well-being of society at large through cooperation with all and ensuring communal amity,'' he said. "Certain interested parities, however, are engaged in an effort to turn the situation as an opportunity to get even with the NSS politically, through exaggerating the issue,'' he said and without naming the Sangh Parivar outfits, added that the community was determined to frustrate any move from anyone to wrest control over the NSS through intimidation or by casting aspersions on the leadership collectively or individually.

Giving a detailed description of what happened at the Hindu College, the statement said that atrocities perpetrated by students' union leaders were unbecoming of the student community. However, the principal and the management tired their best to settle the issue amicably, but in vain. In this backdrop, it was decided to handover the issue to the Government, he said.

In a detailed elucidation of the issue, the statement made it clear that neither the college authorities nor the management was against the participation of the Union Minister of State for Defence, O. Rajagopal, in the programme organised at the NSS Hindu College, Changanassery. Sanction was accorded to the college union to conduct the inauguration of the scholarship distribution as a domestic function. However, the printed notice issued by the union had changed it into a programme in which anyone from outside could attend. This was effected through the inclusion of a programme called `Kudumba Sangamam' in addition to the distribution of scholarships. This was beyond the scope of the college union.

The statement said the college authorities were of opinion that under the present circumstances, holding of such a programme would not be conducive to ensuring peaceful atmosphere on the campus and the goodwill among the student community.

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