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Governor urged to seek report on Kumaraswamy's KSOU visit

Staff Reporter

Bangalore: Governor T.N. Chaturvedi should call for a report on Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy's visit to the Karnataka State Open University in Mysore on Sunday, where he "ordered" the Vice-Chancellor to regularise the services of 220 temporary employees, B. Somashekar, State president of the Janata Dal (U) has said. He told presspersons here on Tuesday that Mr. Kumaraswamy should not have behaved like "a trade union leader" by barging into the premises of the university and telling the employees to end their strike and "join duty".

Mr. Kumaraswamy had asked the agitating workers to resume to work from Monday and "lock the university office if the Vice-Chancellor prevents them" from joining duty. The Chief Minister's visit to the KSOU was prompted by an advertisement calling for application for temporary posts. Mr. Kumaraswamy had not only brought down the dignity of his office, he had treated a Vice-Chancellor, a woman, in a very shoddy manner. "He has shown disrespect to a woman," Mr. Somashekar said. The Governor, who is Chancellor of the university, the Higher Education Minister and the Vice-Chancellor are the decision-makers in a university, which is an autonomous institution, and the Chief Minister has no role to play at all, Mr. Somashekar, who was the Higher Education Minister when this university was set up, said.

He cited a Supreme Court ruling, which frowns on regularising contract employees because it affects the reservation and roster system. Mr. Somashekar said it had become the trend now for the Government to make ad hoc recruitments and pressure institutions to regularise them. There were 50,000 "labourers" who came under this category, he said.

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