The 18-member Governing Body (GB) of the college is supposed to have four teacher representatives. However, at present there are only two nominees as elections for the remaining two are due.
Stephen's had approved certain amendments in its constitution in a meeting of the GB on Monday despite eight out of 18 members including the teacher nominees abstaining from the same, resulting in a truncated GB.
"The staff association today decided to ask Thampu to immediately hold the elections as any decision taken by a truncated GB is deemed as illegal," a staff association member said.
Thampu has also called for giving a major say to the
Church of North India (CNI) in the functioning of the college, handing over the powers to appoint faculty and admissions to its Supreme Council (SC) and recasting the composition of the Governing Body (GB).
The amendment also proposes to replace St Stephen's College Trust, which currently runs the college, with a St Stephen's Educational Society that will have the power to establish Stephen's-like private institutions across the country.
Thampu had last week pulled up the members of staff association for talking to media about the amendment proposal and had asked them to exercise "responsible restraint" regarding the issue.
The move to amend the constitution has also attracted the ire of the college alumni who have termed it to be an attempt to make St Stephen's a "Christian ghetto", Thampu has been maintaining that it is the Supreme Council's decision to make the amendments and there has been no violation of procedures or law.
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