Qatar : Karnataka Muslim Cultural Association Elects its new Executive Committee
Doha, May 30: Karnataka Muslim Cultural Association ( KMCA), Doha held their Annual General Body Meeting on Friday, 11th May 2018 at Maaza Restaurant.
The meeting was attended by the Executive committee of 2017 - 2018 and the members which included founder members, senior members and regular members.
Meeting started with Qirath by Br. Ahmed Saeed Assadi. The rules and safety guidance was informed. Ahmed Saeed Assadi was the Master of ceremony and conducted the program as per KMCA bylaws.
President Abdullah Monu welcomed the members and gave an overview of the programs conducted during his tenure as president.
General Secretary Saquib Raza Khan presented the Annual report on the programs. Treasurer Fayaz Ahmed presented the Financial report for the year 2017 - 2018.
The revised bylaws as recommended by Indian Embassy was adopted by moving the motion and approved by the members. The Executive committee for 2017 - 2018 was dissolved by Past President and Advisory committee Chair Ahmed Saeed Assadi.
Election for the New committee was held and the New Executive committee for the year 2018 - 2019 was elected unanimously by the members.
Following members were elected as the Executive Members of KMCA for the period 2018 - 2019
President : Ibraiz Khan
Vice President : Iqbal Manna
Gen. Secretary : Khaleel Ahmed
Joint Secretary : Zakir Ahmed
Treasurer : Khalil Ahmed
Cultural / Logistics : Ismail Aboobacker
Sports Secretary : Shakeel Ahmed
Advisory Chairman : Abdulla Monu Moideen
Internal Auditor : Fayaz Ahmed
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Teachers start relay hunger strike to protest job loss, police action
Kolkata (PTI): A section of teachers who lost their jobs following a Supreme Court judgment which held that the whole appointment process was tainted, on Thursday began a relay hunger strike outside the West Bengal School Service Commission (SSC) office in protest over the issue.
Joining the protesters, BJP MP Abhijit Gangopadhyay who is a former judge of the Calcutta High Court, blamed the state administration and its wings for their plight.
The teachers and other staff who lost their jobs said that they were also protesting police action against their compatriots at the district inspector (DI) of schools' office at Kasba in south Kolkata on Wednesday.
"We started a relay hunger strike agitation with one teacher at the beginning and will soon chalk out further programme to protest the issue," one of the protesters told reporters outside the SSC office at Salt Lake here.
The agitating teachers have been holding a sit-in outside the SSC office building 'Acharya Sadan' since Wednesday night to protest the loss of jobs and police action against their compatriots.
The protesters alleged they were subjected to baton-charge and were even kicked and shoved around by law enforcement personnel during their agitation outside the DI office, situated beside Kasba police station of the Kolkata Police.
Noting that the police have lodged cases against the protesting teachers over Wednesday's protest at Kasba, Gangopadhyay said that this should not have been done.
"Cases have been lodged against innocent teachers who lost their jobs for the illegal acts of others," the BJP MP told reporters.
Maintaining that he had not gone to meet Education Minister Bratya Basu on Wednesday in protest against the police action, he said that the BJP leadership was with him in his decision.
Gangopadhyay said that he, along with former Rajya Sabha MP Rupa Ganguly, came to the protest site at Acharya Sadan to express solidarity with the teachers and other staff who lost their jobs.
Gangopadhyay, as a judge of the Calcutta High Court, had ordered a CBI investigation in November 2021 into alleged irregularities in the recruitment process.
He had also ordered the termination of more than 25,000 jobs of teaching and non-teaching staff in West Bengal government-run and -aided schools after finding irregularities in the process.
This order was upheld by a division bench of the high court and thereafter by the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court on April 3 upheld a 2024 Calcutta High Court judgment annulling the recruitment of 25,753 teaching and non-teaching staff appointed through a recruitment drive by SSC in 2016, terming the entire selection process "vitiated and tainted".
Those who were rendered jobless claimed that the reason behind their plight was the inability of the SSC to differentiate between the candidates who secured employment through fraudulent means and those who did not.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested former West Bengal education minister Partha Chatterjee and some others, who held positions in the state's SSC when the irregularities in the recruitment process took place.
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