NU Senate polls: Tough contest on cards for all posts

Nagpur: The Nagpur University administration has uploaded a list of candidates for all important Senate elections where many candidates suffered a setback after their nomination forms were rejected.
At some places like for the principal’s seat (Women) in the Senate, there will be a direct fight after the nomination of Shraddha Kumar was rejected citing insufficient experience of examinations related work.
Shikshan Manch’s Urmila Dabir would take on Young Teachers Associations’ (YTA) Sharayu Taywade in a straight fight for this post. In the category of college management representative (Woman) in the Senate, MLC Abhijit Wanjari’s wife Smeetaa was elected unopposed after Kajol Chandansingh Rotele’s application was rejected by the administration.
For the four posts of college management representative (Men), 12 applications were received of which Akshay Moglewar’s nomination was rejected by the administration. Many bigwigs would be contesting in this category, including senior academicians and NU veterans Baban Taywade, Rajesh Bhoyar and Arun Motghare.
For five posts of principals in the open category, nine applications were received. On other hand for one post of NU teacher, five nominations have been received.
Hundreds of nominations were received collectively for about 76 Board of Studies (BOS) posts. Their lists were in the process of uploading on the NU election portal but was taking time owing to the huge number of documents. In some BOS like in Urdu, candidates like Feroz Hydri were elected unopposed.
The verification and scrutiny of the applications of the candidates started on Wednesday but continued till late Thursday night.
According to the NU officials, the rejected candidates would still have a chance to file an appeal before the vice chancellor or they can approach the Nagpur bench of Bombay high court.
The deadline for filing an appeal before VC on this list is till 5pm on Saturday. The final list of candidates will be released on November 9. They can withdraw till November 11. On November 12, the final list of candidates would be published. The polling will be held on November 20 from 8 am to 4 pm, while counting of votes will be done on November 22, as per the NU officials.