Dr Sailen Kumar Ghosh, A retired food technologist of Baba Atomic Research Centre (BARC), has filed his nomination to contest this year’s Lok Sabha elections. Dr Ghosh retired from BARC two months ago and on on April 2 he filed his nomination as an independent from the South-Central Mumbai constituency which includes areas like Trombay, chembur, Wadala and Dharavi.
Dr. Ghosh will be contesting with other candidates from south central Mumbai constituency including Suresh Gambir (Shiv Sena) and Eknath Gaikwad (Congress) and Shweta Parulekar (MNS).
His Prime Objectives/ Issues: -
- To bring in more accountability of Indian scientific community
- To change or modify the Service Conduct Rule and to establish a scientists’ rights commission
“I will be fighting for the change or modification of Service conduct Rule if I get elected,”he told PTI. Having interest in bringing in changes in the society through a transparent governance and make the scientific community accountable to the nation, the 60-year-old, Ghosh said the Service Conduct Rule has to be changed (which was created by British) in order to bring in open debates and discussions on various issues and programmes for better implementation for the people.
