En-mass resignations in Lucknow association

LUCKNOW: Members of Lucknow Computer Vyapar Mandal (LCVM), the IT channel association in Lucknow, are a confused lot. Sometime ago, the executive members of the association resigned from their respective posts, and no one has any idea why the resignations happened.

Among the people who resigned include Sanjay Gulati, President, Praveen Khanna, General Secretary, Amit Tandon, Joint Secretary, Sanjay Dwivedi, VP, Jiveshwar Upadhyaya, Treasurer and Gurmeet Singh Saluja, Chairman.

Giving more information on the same, Praveen Khanna, ex-General secretary, LCVM said that a group of partners who were contesting the September 2008 association election and could not win, later formed their own group and started criticizing every activity that LCVM would do. “In order to oppose the attitude of those members, the entire executive committee resigned. However, the resignation is still under consideration by the election committees,” he said.

However, there seems to be more than meets the eye since when approached different members of the executive committee gave different reasons for the en-mass resignation. Sanjay Gulati, Ex-President, LCVM mentioned, “I was totally engaged in my business and was not able to give time to the association. I felt that I was not doing justice to my position and hence I took the decision to resign and it was unanimously accepted by all the members.”

Giving a completely contrasting point of view, Gurmeet Singh Saluja, Ex-Chairman, LCVM said, “I was shifting my business from IT to telecom and my office location was also changing. Earlier my office was located in the main IT market and now I am away from that area. Moreover, since I am doing very less IT business, I thought I should resign.”

When contacted SM Wasmi, Ex-Coordinator, LCVM mentioned, “There was no dispute among the members. We mutually decided to resign from the respective positions because most of us were busy with our businesses and were not able to give time to the association. So we decided to step down. There is no other reason behind this step."

Amit Tandon, Ex-Joint secretary, LVCM refused to give any clarification for the reason of his resignation. It is being said that LCVM may conduct an election by the end of this year. Members informed that in the absence of any office bearers, the members are conducting activities or resolving issues on individual basis.“Even though the executive members are not holding any position but they are still participating in solving the common issues of channel partners be it related to electricity crisis or any business problems. We are still trying to maintain unity among the members,” commented Khanna.

It was also being said that in order to gain power, a few members of LCVM formed their own association. However, most of the key channel partners in Lucknow had no knowledge about this development.