Ekbote gets elected to UoP senate

The results of the elections,held in the constituencies of institute managements’ representatives and principals constituency,were out on Thursday.

The voting for various posts of senate and academic council in both the institute managements’ representatives and principals’ constituency was held on August 31. On Thursday,counting was held at the UoP campus. Results were out by afternoon.  

There were seven candidates in the fray in the open category for the five posts of senate in institute managements’ representatives constituency. Along with Ekbote,Mangesh Karad,Prashant Gadakh,Rajendra Vikhe-Patil and Satish Ursal were elected on the senate.

As many as 18 candidates were contesting in the open category for 15 posts of senate in the principals’ constituency. Nandkumar Nikam,Harish Adke,Rajkumar Shetye,Mahadeo Walher,Hitendra Aher,Sandeep Inamdar,Bhiva Wagh,Ashok Thorat,Chandrakant Raval,Avinash Kharat,Arun Andhale,Sanjay Chaudhari,Laxman Shitole and Dattatraya Balsaraf were elected to the senate in this constituency.

Meanwhile,Vidya Vaje and Shobha Ingawale have been elected unopposed in the principals’ constituency to the senate seat reserved for women. Pandurang Gaikwad has been elected unopposed for seat reserved for Scheduled Caste.

In the institute management representatives’ constituency,Sunanda Navale and Sunanda Pawar have been elected unopposed on senate for the posts reserved for women.

In the same constituency,Ashok Sawant has been elected unopposed on senate on post reserved for OBC.

In the institute management representatives’ constituency,Ravindra Deshpande and Vasant Pawar have been elected unopposed on academic council for open category. In the principals’ constituency,while V B Gaikwad,Manohar Chaskar,Kishor Jain,Dilip Shah and Shivanand Hale have been elected on academic council for open category,Suchita Kochargaonkar and Sampada Joshi have been elected on academic council for seats reserved for women.

Ramesh Suryavanshi has been elected in  the principals’ constituency on academic council for the post reserved for Scheduled Caste category.

Celebrating victory
Though the elections were held for the academic bodies such as senate academic council of the UoP,scene at the varsity campus was like a political campaign. Elected members and their supporters celebrated the victory by bursting crackers and colouring the faces with gulal. Many officers on the campus expressed disappointment over the scene.

“The elected members are principals and heads of managements of the institutes. It was unfortunate that they behaved like politicians even as they belong to teachingprofession,” said a senior officer of academic section of the UoP.