From: gnreddy@cbnewsf.att.com (G.Narotham Reddy)
Subject: India - Court stays Order, forbids colleges from calling for admissions
Organization: AT&T
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 92 02:44:21 GMT


Source	: The Hindu, Oct 3, 1992
Country	: India

Topics:
* Court stays Karnataka Order, forbids calling for admissions
* Poll Boycott was a Big Mistake: Surjit Singh Barnala 

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* Court stays Karnataka Order, forbids calling for admissions

Bangalore - Sept 25: The Karnataka High Court today stayed the
operation of the Government orders issued last week granting permission
to start nine engineering colleges. The court also ordered issue of
notices to the respondent colleges and others.
	Admitting a writ petition filed by the Akhila Bharatiya Vidyarthi
Parishad (ABVP) and others, Justice G.P.Shivaprakash, forbade the
colleges from calling for admissions for 1992-93. 
	The petitioner contended that the Government had passed the impugned
orders granting permission to start the nine colleges disregarding
norms prescribed by the All-India Council of Technical Education and in
violation of Section 53 of the Karnataka Universities Act. It submitted
that the sanction had been granted on extraneous considerations and the
people heading the institutions were associates of Mr.S.Bangarappa.
Mr.Bangarappa has been impleaded as a respondent in the writ petition.
The petitioner contended that the impugned orders were illegal and
represented a mala fide exercise of power by the Government.
	The Cong(I) high command has sought details of the order of
Karnataka  High Court. Significantly the party high command decided to
replace the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, last week in the wake of
strictures passed by the A.P High Court in a similar case, starting
private medical and dental colleges.
	However, the crucial difference in the case relating to Karnataka
has been that the stay by the High Court is at the admission itself 
and hence the question of strictures against the State Chief Minister 
does not arise.
	In the case of Andhra Pradesh, the Prime Minister, Mr.P.V.Narasimha
Rao, had referred the judgement of A.P High Court on the medical
colleges case to the Union Law Ministry. The Ministry had said that the
Supreme Court may uphold the observations made by the High Court
against the Chief Minister.
	Once the opinion of Law Ministry was available the Prime Minister
took no time to makeup his mind on replacing Mr.Janardhan Reddy and he
was directed to submit his resignation once the State Assembly adopted
the Appropriation Bill. Ironically the Karnataka Government decided to
grant permission for nine private engineering colleges the same day the
Prime Minister decided to change the A.P. Chief Minister. 

* Poll Boycott was a Big Mistake: Barnala Regrets

Ludhiana - Sept 27: The former Chief Minister, Mr.Surjit Singh
Barnala, said today the boycott of elections in February by the Akalis
was a "big mistake" and if they had contested, an Akali Government
could have been installed in Punjab.
	He said the opposition leaders were now blaming the Akalis for this
omission which led to the return of 19 Cong(I) members to the Lok Sabha
and the Rajya Sabha. Addressing press persons here, Mr.Barnala said he
was striving for panthic unity but regretted that the leadership issue
was a big hurdle in the unity process.


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