Fresh row over talk of replacing Dhankhar as varsities Chancellor
The Hindu
You make Chief Minister the Governor, he retorts to Education Minister’s tweet
A couple of days after suggestions were made that he should be replaced from the titular post of Chancellor of State-run universities in West Bengal, Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on Sunday lashed out at the State government.
The State’s Education Minister Bratya Basu had tweeted on Friday that there was need to “introspect” on whether the State needs to continue with the colonial legacy of Governor being ex-officio Chancellor of all State-run universities and eminent scholars should be appointed instead. He had later suggested to newspersons that the Chief Minister should be made interim Chancellor.
“I was astonished that the Education Minister, who should have interacted with me, instead said that the Chief Minister will be made Chancellor,” Mr. Dhankhar said after landing at the airport here on a week-long visit to north Bengal.
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