Maken declares Cong candidates

Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee President Ajay Maken on Tuesday announced the name of Professor Sanjay Kumar as joint candidate of INTEC and Academics for Action (AAD) and Development for the Delhi University Teachers’ Association (DUTA) elections. Maken said Sanjay Kumar was an experienced and strong candidate, who is from the Department of Political Science, Zakir Hussain College (E). He has been the DUTA joint secretary from 2007-2009, vice-president from 2009 to 2011 and an Executive Committee member from 2011 to 2015.

Addressing a Press conference along with three-time DUTA president and president of AAD Aditya Narain Mishra and Professor Kiran Walia, Maken said the other candidates of the Congress-supported panel for the executive committee would be-CS Rawat (Deptt. of Hindi, Venkateshwara College), Rajesh Kumar Jha (Dept. of Political Science, Rajdhani College), Seema Das (Dept of Pol. Science, Hindu College), Sunil Kayasth (Dept. of Zoology, Deshbandhu College), Satish Kumar (Dept of Physics, Zakir Hussain College), AM Khan (Dept of Chemistry, Moti lal Nehru College).

Maken said the Congress-backed candidates would fight against the move by the Union Human Resources Ministry to encroach upon the autonomy of Delhi University, and protect its independent status, and also resist the move to impose CBCS (Choice Based Credit System) on the Delhi University students, and in the coming months will raise the core issues of teachers of Delhi University.