The date of hearing on NCUI’s President Chandra Pal Singh Yadav’s petition against the ruling of arbitrator has been deferred to 30th April. In the hearing on Wednesday the court of ADJ gave this new date as the required papers were not made available to the court.
Talking to Indiancooperative.com the advocate of NCUI President, Mr V P Singh said that the opposite party did not submit replies leading to deferment of the hearing. In reply to the question how strong is case for Chandra Pal Singh, Mr V P Singh said “I am his advocate and I cannot give any answer other than saying that it is a strong case for the President”.
Elaborating Mr V P Singh said about ten national level cooperative federations send their representatives to National Cooperative Union of India. The four IFFCO, KRIBHCO, NAFED and NCCF have their representatives based on their contributions to the apex body.
“These representatives are not nominated but elected in their parent cooperatives and therefore to call them nominated is not correct”, Mr Singh argued. He also mentioned the person who has challenged the President’s election is not an affected party.
When Indiancooperative.com contacted Rajender Sharma, the original petitioner to find out the reason behind the deferment of hearing, he said necessary papers from the office of Central Registrar could not reach the court.
Readers would recall Rajendra Sharma had challenged Chandra Pal Singh’s accession to President-ship in the court of the government appointed Arbitrator. The latter ruled against the President. Later Mr Chandra Pal Singh appealed against the ruling in the court.
The Governing Council of NCUI is meeting Thursday amid uncertainty. Though majority of members are keeping their cards close to their chest, the fear that some of them may raise the issue in the board could not be ruled out.