DYFI leader in dock over daughters MBBS seat

Rameshan had projected his brother-in law working in a foreign country as the promoter of the NRI seat.

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Poking holes in the CPI(M) and its feeder outfits sustained campaign against commercialisation of professional education in Kerala,a state leader of the Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) managed to secure admission for his daughter in an MBBS course under the NRI quota in a cooperative medical college in Kannur.

Amid public outrage and mounting pressure from the organisation,DYFI state treasurer V V Rameshan was forced to cancel the admission his daughter A V Arya,who had obtained admission at the Pariyaram Institute of Medical Sciences. Rameshan is also a director of the hospital.

While admission in the college under the NRI quota would have meant an annual fee of Rs 10 lakh,Rameshans known sources of income are only from a single-room outlet of khadi textile,a photocopier unit in a small town and his wife Anithas salary from a job in a public sector firm. Anitha had been additional personal assistant to CPI(M) leader Elamaram Kareem during his term as Industries Minister from 2006 to May 2011. Rameshan is also a district committee member of the CPI(M) in Kasargode.

The state has only 2,150 MBBS seats in both government and private sectors. Arya managed to get admission though her rank in the entrance exam was 32,000. Rameshan had projected his brother-in law working in a foreign country as the promoter of the NRI seat.

The DYFI has always criticised self-financing colleges,saying the only thing that matters for admission at these institutions is money. It had a pitched battle against such colleges and the organisation had lost five members to police firing during one such agitation in 1994.