jaipur the rajasthan high court on monday conditionally stayed the state governments decision to remove naresh kumar chandnani as chairman of rajasthan sindhi academy chandnanis appointment was a political one made by ashok gehlot government the courts interim order was being seen as a jolt to the vasundhara raje government which has lately been receiving criticism for withdrawing facilities to various commissions boards and statuary bodies heads appointed by gehlot government as chairpersons or presidents the heads of these statuary bodies were entitled to a fixed tenure ranging from three to five years chandnani challenged his dismissal on the ground that the academy chairman was entitled to a tenure of three years based on his petition justice m n bhandari issued show cause notice to the principal secretary art and culture department on monday the high court has granted three weeks time to the government to respond while it has allowed stay on chandnanis dismissal for four weeks at the same time justice bhandari has mentioned that the stay would be effective only if chandnanis appointment was done through a government notification the congress government appointed chandnani to the sindhi academy on november 25 2011 as per the academy rules his threeyear tenure would come to an end on november 24 2014 however in less than a month after coming to power the bjp government removed chandnani as the academy chairman on january 9 this year chandnani alleged before the high court that his dismissal was arbitrary and politically motivated earlier the raje government faced wrath from activists for stripping powers and withdrawing even basic facilities granted to chairperson of the state womens commission pucl secretary kavita srivastava claimed that the new government did not seek the governors consent before stripping powers of the commissions chairperson or members the women groups even threatened to stage street protest if the new government did not revoke its order that curtailed the commissions powers women commission chairperson lad kumari jain earlier alleged that she was being pressurised to step down from the post