DCTA plunges into crisis PK Sharma and JP Bansal have resigned

Even as the new executive committee of CMDA (Computer Media
Deal-ers Association) were rejoic-ing on their successful elect-ion, the other
trade body of Delhi’s channel community DCTA (Delhi Computer Trad-ers
Association) has plunged into crisis due to the resignat-ions of two key
office-bearers.

PK Sharma of Comnet Vision who is the Chairman and JP Bansal
of Frontline Information System who is the General Secretary, have decided to
give in their resignations to the election commissioner because of personal
differences with Mahinder Aggarwal, the DCTA President.

Elaborated Bansal, "I am resigning from the post of
General Secretary because of some personal differences with Mr Aggarwal. Some
other office bearers were also ready to resign with me, but I have asked them
not to do so and continue to work for the association. As of now, only me and PK
Sharma will be resigning from the association."

When contacted, Aggarwal said that he was not happy with this
development. "I want to work towards the betterment of the channel
community’s business and if someone re-signs from the association then it is
not good for us. I do not want anyone to resign but when they have already decid-ed
on this, then I don’t have any option but to accept their decision."

It may be recalled that DCTA went through the electoral
process just four months back in August 2003 when eight office bearers were
elected. As two of its members have decided to put in their resigna-tion now,
DCTA will be left with only six office bearers.

As if this resignation episode was not enough to shake DCTA,
there is confusion when it comes to submitting the resig-nation letters.
According to Bansal, the letter should be sub-mitted to the election
commi-ssioner–Ashok Agarwal of Trifin Technologies in this case. However,
Mahinder Aggarwal does not agree to this and says that the resignation letter
sho-uld be submitted to him and the job of an election commi-ssioner is to
conduct elections and not decide on resignations.

Nehru Place is one of the most active places when it comes to
selling IT products and DCTA can be called as the largest channels association
in the country. As the industry is moving towards higher levels of maturity,
this type of development is seen by many as a set-back and fallout of a
non-professional attitude by some office-bearers who "have hijacked DCTA to
further their personal ambitions".

This is certainly not the last one would get to hear on this
current crisis. The action is sure to hot up in the new year.



Zia Askari

New Delhi

(CyberMedia News Service)