The letter from the Ministry has come-a letter extending the term of NCCT Secretary Mohan Mishra in his present job for one more year. Mishra’s term was ending on 22nd October and the letter has arrived not a moment too soon.
“As per NCUI’s recommendation the Ministry is extending the term of Mohan Kumar Mishra” is the gist of the letter Mishra and his loyalists were desperately waiting to receive. “He may be down but is not yet out”, reminded one of his loyalists.
With having an extension letter in his pocket, Mishra is said to be going the extra-mile mending fences with cooperators as an exercise in damage limitation. He knows that he may have managed the Ministry but he has to work in an atmosphere dominated by cooperators.
Readers would recall most of GC members were dead against Mishra’s extension and wanted the NCUI President to take a final call on the matter. But the President gave in to the pressure mounted by the Ministry as reported in these columns earlier.