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ഹൂസ്റ്റണ്‍ മലയാളി അസ്സോസിയേഷന്‍ പൊതുയോഗം അനില്‍ ആറമുളയുടെ നിയമനം അംഗീകരിച്ചു

പി.പി.ചെറിയാന്‍ Published on 09 December, 2013
ഹൂസ്റ്റണ്‍  മലയാളി അസ്സോസിയേഷന്‍ പൊതുയോഗം അനില്‍ ആറമുളയുടെ നിയമനം അംഗീകരിച്ചു
ഹൂസ്റ്റണ്‍ :മലയാളി അസ്സേസിയേഷന്‍ ഓഫ് ഗ്രേറ്റര്‍ ഹൂസ്റ്റന്റെ പൊതുയോഗം ചീഫ് ഇലക്ഷന്‍ കമ്മീഷ്ണര്‍ അനില്‍ ആറന്‍മുളയുടേയും, സഹ കമ്മീഷണ്‍മാരുടെയും നിയമനം എതിരില്ലാതെ അംഗീകരിച്ചു.

അസ്സോസിയേഷന്‍ ആസ്ഥാനമായ സ്റ്റാഫോര്‍ഡിലുള്ള കേരളഹൗസില്‍ ചേര്‍ന്ന പൊതുയോഗത്തില്‍ പ്രസിഡന്റ് കെന്നഡി ജോസഫ് അദ്ധ്യക്ഷത വഹിച്ചു.

അസ്സോസിയേഷന്‍ ജനറല്‍ സെക്രട്ടറി എബ്രഹാം ഈപ്പന്‍ സംഘടനയുടെ വാര്‍ഷീകറിപ്പോര്‍ട്ട് അവതരിപ്പിച്ചു. തുടര്‍ന്ന് കഴിഞ്ഞ പൊതുയോഗം ആവശ്യപ്പെട്ടതനുസരിച്ച് ഭരണഘടനാ ഭേദഗതി ശ്രീ. ജോഷ്വ ജോര്‍ജ്ജ് അവതരിപ്പിച്ചു ഇലക്ഷന്‍ ഡിസം.14ന് നടക്കാതിരിക്കെ ഭേദഗതി ചര്‍ച്ചയ്‌ക്കെടുക്കുന്നത് മാറ്റിവെയ്ക്കണമെന്ന പൊതുയോഗത്തിന്റെ നിര്‍ദ്ദേശമനുസരിച്ച് അടുത്ത മീറ്റിങ്ങിലേക്ക് ചര്‍ച്ച മാറ്റിവെച്ചു.

അനില്‍ ആറന്‍മുളയുടെ നേതൃത്വത്തിലുള്ള തെരഞ്ഞെടുപ്പു കമ്മീഷന്റെ നിയമനം അംഗങ്ങള്‍ ചോദ്യം ചെയ്തതിനെ തുടര്‍ന്ന് കമ്മറ്റി തീരുമാനം പൊതുയോഗത്തില്‍ റ്റാഫിക്കേഷന്(Rattification) വിടുകയും തുടര്‍ന്ന് എതിരില്ലാതെ അംഗീകരിക്കുകയുമാണുണ്ടായതെന്ന് അസ്സോസിയേഷന്‍ ജനറല്‍ സെക്രട്ടറി എബ്രഹാം ഈപ്പന്‍ പറഞ്ഞു.


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Ninan Mathullah 2013-12-10 08:26:04

MAGH General Body meeting on 7th December, 2014

The MAGH (Malayalee Association of Greater Houston) General Body meeting conducted on 7th December 2014 ended up in the meeting declared dispersed prematurely by the chairman of the meeting Mr. Kennedy Joseph. At the beginning of the meeting the proposal to amend the Bylaw to adopt Trustee Board and to extend the term of the Board to two years was shelved due to opposition from majority of members present, as proper procedure was not followed in calling the General Body meeting.
Mr. Kennedy Joseph admitted that it was a mistake on the part of the Board in appointing an Election Commission as they didn’t know the Bylaw stated so. Most of the candidates present in the meeting demanded a new Election Commission from the floor of the meeting. Instead of electing a new Election Commission, the authorities used deceptive methods, and declared that the General Body let the current Election Commission to continue with unanimous vote. Most of the candidates couldn’t agree to such flagrant violation of moral and ethical principles.

Majority of the candidates had a list of grievances against a biased Election Commission—lack of knowledge of the Bylaw, not providing a copy of the correct Bylaw, not providing certified Voters list, making the candidacy of some candidates invalid on silly reasons, no elected Election Agents as stipulated in the Bylaw, not allowing candidates Agents in the Polling Booth etc. The other two election commissioners’ names were not found in the list of MAGH members. Due to these actions from the Election Commission, and the Executive Committee, majority of the candidates felt that the Election Commission and the Executive Committee are biased against them in this election, and they lost trust that the election will be conducted fairly.

The Present President Mr. Joseph Kennedy, Thomas Varkey (Mysore Thampy) and Mathew Thottam are in the 2014 Panel with Mysore Thampy as the Presidential candidate. It is evident that the Executive Committee and the Election Commission appointed by them favor them. They have access to the latest voter list (1346 members). It is unfair not to provide the voters list to all the candidates when the Bylaw states to provide it to candidates. One group has unfair advantage here. Besides the Executive Committee and the Election Commission are not following the Bylaw or common moral and ethical principles.

The Executive Committee which has taken the oath to uphold the Bylaw, if doesn’t know the same Bylaw, they have no moral authority to hold that office now. So the majority of candidates decided not to participate in the election.

Ninan Mathullah

A.C.George, Houston 2013-12-10 01:23:01
The contents of the news are false and baseless. The facts are quite opposite. Even some of the dates are not matching. According to the MAGH Constitution, the general body did not elect the Election commissioner. In the general body the people who nominated the election commissioner apologized for their mistake for appointing in such a way, because they have no authority to nominate or appoint the commissioner. According to the constitution Commissioners have to be elected from the general body. On the said day, without electing the commissioner the general body ended or disbursed abruptly. This is the real story. Please do and independent and impartial enquiry about the meeting
George Parnel 2013-12-10 16:37:37
Out of curiosity, I browsed thru MAGH bylaws. It has ambiguities with regard to calling General Body meetings, appointing election commmission, conducting elections etc. Many related provisions are not practical to implement and these may explain the reason for the tension during this election time. The best thing is to rewrite the Bylaws before an election is held; if that is not possible, have the General Body ratify all decisions with documents that also states certain deviations were made to the provisions of the bylaw.
Best wishes.

It was a previlege for me to conduct the FOMAA election last year in a Cruise ship. Because it was done so well per comments received, there was no news coverage.

George Parnel, Former Election Commissioner of FOMAA
Baltimore, Maryland.

Ninan Mathulla 2013-12-10 16:57:30
Parnel, we worked together to write FOMAA Bylaws. I was in the Bylaw committee for MAGH Bylaws. Though all the provisions there in are not according to my wish, as we had to compromise on certain points, generally speaking, I do not see any major discrepancies there.

The best written bylaws are useless if the people who are supposed to uphold it do not follow common moral and ethical standards. This is what we learn from history. The laws wiere there. But dishonest people find ways to bypass the laws. We can see this in the history of all empires in history.
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