Jadavpur University Vice Chancellor refuses to resign
- 5 years ago
As so often in the past, all eyes are again on Raj Bhavan to find a way out of another crisis in Bengal. Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi is due to hear out the agitating students of Jadavpur University on Saturday just after Kolkata's student community sets out on what they call the mother of all GenX marches, beyond campus and political barriers.
The governor has had to take the lead because all other negotiation channels have failed to break the logjam. Tripathi is in constant touch with all quarters for the last two days. He had a talk with embattled JU vice-chancellor Abhijit Chakraborty, sought education minister Partha Chatterjee's opinion and took reports from home secretary Basudeb Bandyopadhyay. On Friday, the governor did a reality check with police commissioner Surajit Kar Purakayastha and will sit with the education minister again on Saturday before he meets students. He has already met a JU teacher delegation, and a host of vice-chancellors who called on him to express their views. He is also aware of the position of the opposition — Congress and BJP — who want the vice-chancellor to go. Political parties have requested the governor to strike out Abhijit Chakraborty's name from the panel of three forwarded to him for selection of a full-term VC at JU.
The resignation of a member of the executive council has added another dimension to the simmering controversy. Soumitra Bose, head of the philosophy department, resigned from the EC on Friday. He refused to speak about it, though. "I am not supposed to talk about my resignation. The authorities may. Please don't link it to the recent incident at JU," he said.
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The governor has had to take the lead because all other negotiation channels have failed to break the logjam. Tripathi is in constant touch with all quarters for the last two days. He had a talk with embattled JU vice-chancellor Abhijit Chakraborty, sought education minister Partha Chatterjee's opinion and took reports from home secretary Basudeb Bandyopadhyay. On Friday, the governor did a reality check with police commissioner Surajit Kar Purakayastha and will sit with the education minister again on Saturday before he meets students. He has already met a JU teacher delegation, and a host of vice-chancellors who called on him to express their views. He is also aware of the position of the opposition — Congress and BJP — who want the vice-chancellor to go. Political parties have requested the governor to strike out Abhijit Chakraborty's name from the panel of three forwarded to him for selection of a full-term VC at JU.
The resignation of a member of the executive council has added another dimension to the simmering controversy. Soumitra Bose, head of the philosophy department, resigned from the EC on Friday. He refused to speak about it, though. "I am not supposed to talk about my resignation. The authorities may. Please don't link it to the recent incident at JU," he said.
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