The West Bengal Assembly has handed a Bill that seeks to switch the governor with the chief minister because the chancellor of the state’s University of Health Sciences. The University of Health Sciences (Amendment) Bill was handed with 134 votes in favour of it and 51 in opposition to, with the BJP opposing it.
The West Bengal University of Health Sciences (Amendment) Bill, 2022, was handed days after the Assembly cleared different payments to switch the governor with the chief minister as chancellor in state varsities and the schooling minister because the reader of personal universities.
Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar mentioned that he’ll take into account these payments with none ‘bias or prejudice’ when they are going to be positioned earlier than him. He additionally claimed that the laws was introduced and handed to divert the folks’s consideration after the Calcutta High Court discovered illegalities within the recruitment of academics in faculties sponsored and aided by the state authorities.
The Bill which was launched by Minister of State for Health, Chandrima Bhattacharya, was first handed by voice vote however later taken up for a vote by poll on the insistence of the opposition BJP.
The TMC authorities’s transfer got here after a sequence of run-ins between the governor and the CM, together with over Dhankhar calling vice-chancellors for conferences, which the state administration didn’t approve of.
The concurrent listing consists of topics of widespread curiosity to each the Union and the states. Both the Parliament and the state legislatures could make legal guidelines on the topics included on this listing however in case of a battle between the Union and the state on a legislation regarding the identical topic, the Union legislation prevails. The listing consists of schooling.
Dhankhar said that opposition BJP MLAs who met him on the Raj Bhavan throughout the day had instructed him that the target of the Trinamool Congress authorities is to create a brand new submit that can make the identical particular person chief minister and governor of West Bengal. “This can’t happen. We are a society governed by law. Your governor is a servant of the Indian Constitution and the people of West Bengal,” he mentioned.
The governor, who has shared an acrimonious relationship with the Trinamool Congress authorities since he assumed workplace in July 2019, claimed that the state authorities not adopting the Centre’s New Education Policy is “destroying the education and future of students of Bengal.” Reacting to the allegations of the governor, the TMC attacked Dhankhar accusing him of performing like a BJP agent.
“What the BJP said a few days back, the governor is saying the same thing. It only proves that the governor is just behaving like an agent of the BJP,” TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh mentioned.
The Tamil Nadu state meeting had final month curbed the Governor’s powers in appointing vice-chancellors of state universities and provided that function to the state authorities.
With inputs from PTI.
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