DYFI state leader Shailaja Beegom had breached a recent diktat of the youth outfit’s state leadership to procure an MBBS seat in NRI quota for her daughter at the Pariyaram Medical College.
Sources said, after the controversy over admission of former DYFI leader V V Rameshan’s daughter, the DYFI state leadership had taken a decision that members holding positions in the area committee and above should not secure admission in NRI seats in self-financing colleges for their family members and close relatives.
Rameshan, former state treasurer of the DYFI, had been expelled from the party on charges of attempting to procure an MBBS seat in the NRI quota for his daughter in the same college.
Responding to the issue, Rameshan said that he was not the right person to judge the right and wrong in securing the NRI seats by party leaders. He added that the present controversy should have been avoided.
“I was expelled from the DYFI for trying to secure an NRI seat for my daughter. Actually my daughter had not obtained the seat and the only thing we did was to pay Rs 5 lakh in the college. The money was funded by one of my close relatives. When the controversy erupted, I had produced all the necessary papers regarding the funding and also gave up the seat. But the party had then decided to take action against me. I have no complaint regarding that as party has every right to punish its members,” he added.
Sources said that the issue would be discussed at the DYFI state secretariat meeting to be held at Thiruvananthapuram on October 7.
Sources further said that a section of the DYFI leaders from Thiruvananthapuram district would demand the ouster of Shailaja from the DYFI and would urge the intervention of the CPM state leadership to stop the recurrent incidents of controversies.
“The DYFI and the CPM should not simply wash their hands off this controversy by saying that Shailaja obtained the seat without the knowledge of the state leadership.
“After all, the Pariyaram Medical college Director board is led by the party. We will demand stringent action against her similar to what the organisation did in the case of Rameshan. This issue has brought disgrace to both CPM and the DYFI, perhaps more than the Rameshan row,” said a DYFI leader, who declined to be named.
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