Elections to the Syndicate of the University of Calicut are likely to be delayed further with the Kerala High Court on February 23 restricting Governor and Chancellor Arif Mohammed Khan from taking any steps on petitions filed by two Senate members against the rejection of their nominations for 10 days.
Justice C.P. Mohammed Nias issued the order, based on a petition filed by K. Mohammed Haneefa, one of the Left-aligned candidates for the Syndicate polls.
In his plea, Mr. Haneefa had challenged the stay order issued by Mr. Khan on the conduct of the polls, originally scheduled for February 17. The Chancellor stayed the process after P. Raveendran, Professor attached to the Department of Chemistry, and T.M. Vasudevan, Professor with the Department of Library and Information Science, who are Senate members and also functionaries of a Congress-affiliated university teachers’ association, petitioned him against the rejection of their candidature.
