New Row With Mamata Banerjee, Bengal Governor Appoints University Head
NDTV
A bill nominating Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee as the Chancellor of state-run universities awaits Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar's nod
West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar has triggered yet another storm by naming the next Vice Chancellor of Rabindra Bharati University (RBU), even as a bill nominating Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, with whose government he shares an acrimonious relation, as the Chancellor of the state-run varsities awaits his mandatory nod.
The Governor is the current Chancellor of state-run universities. The term of the RBU Vice Chancellor Sabyasachi Basu Roy Choudhury is set to end soon.
Mr Dhankhar has appointed Mahua Mukherjee, a professor in the Department of Dance of RBU. as its next Vice Chancellor.
The Governor tweeted on Thursday he has appointed Ms Mukherjee as the next Vice Chancellor under the Rabindra Bharati Act, 1981.
