Save University Campaign Committee urges CM Vijayan to cancel Veena’s nomination

Thiruvananthapuram: Save the University Campaign Committee has sent a letter to Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan demanding cancellation of the nomination of Renee Sebastian to the syndicate of Sree Narayana Guru Open University, whose educational consultancy agency allegedly hired her daughter. Gave money to Veena Vijayan. IT firm Exalogic.

This comes just after the Corporate Affairs Ministry announced a probe into alleged financial irregularities at Xlogic.

The committee, in its letter to Vijayan, said Sebastian is the director of an educational consultancy firm here in Santa Monica, which sends a large number of Kerala students to universities abroad.

Committee head R.S. Sasikumar said that, this consultancy firm was in news when it was alleged that they had given money to Veena and some other firms.

“This nomination will be counterproductive to the state’s efforts to transform Kerala into a hub of education, which is the vision of your government. By including the director of such a firm, it will give undue importance to this firm,” said Sasikumar.

Sasikumar said that he has sent the complaint to Vijayan because Sebastian has been nominated as a government candidate by the Vijayan government.

Responding to this, state Higher Education Minister R Bindu said that Sebastian was selected because of his expertise and he has no knowledge about other things.

State BJP President K. Surendran had last year given a list of private firms in Kerala that allegedly paid monthly amounts to Veena’s IT firm as they were on the radar of Kerala agencies and Santa Monica was also included in the list.

Surendran’s revelation came soon after a media report, citing an Income Tax Settlement Board report, claimed that Veena’s firm had received Rs 1.72 crore from CMRL – a mining company, without any services and the issue was is now being investigated by the corporate ministry. cases.