The West Bengal cupboard on Monday gave its nod to switch Governor Jagdeep Dhankar and appoint Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee because the Chancellor of all state-run universities below completely different departments like Health, Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Minority Affairs Department as an alternative, information company PTI reported. The Cabinet additionally authorised a proposal to take away the Governor as Visitor at non-public universities.
The resolution shall be taken up for approval within the state Assembly the place the ruling Trinamool Congress is in majority. On May 26, the state cupboard had handed a decision to take away Dhankar, and make Mamata the chancellor in his place.
Following the state cupboard’s proposal, Dhankar hit out on the Mamata authorities calling it her authorities’s media stunt to take away focus from urgent points.
“I am not concerned about what the government does unless the papers come to me. As and when papers come to me, I will take a call according to constitutional provisions,” Dhankar instructed mediapersons.
Jagdeep Dhankhar famous that “a bill becomes an act only when the governor signs on it. An ordinance is also issued when the governor gives consent.”
Pointing out that the recruitment course of within the state-run academic establishments as “sullied and tainted”, Dhankar known as it a “disgrace”.
“We cannot allow our temples of education and the career of our students to suffer,” he mentioned.
Earlier, Dhankar had claimed that the Bengal authorities had appointed vice-chancellors of a number of varsities with out his consent. Dhankhar had complained that vice-chancellors of 24 universities have been “appointed illegally without the chancellor’s approval”. The Governor has had frequent run-ins with the Mamata authorities over a number of points from political killings to legislation and order state of affairs to the academics’ recruitment rip-off.
The transfer to take away Dhankar comes days after an official had instructed information company PTI that the proposal to take away Dhankar because the ‘visitor’ of personal varsities was mentioned at a state cupboard assembly on Thursday. The officer additional claimed that the method to take away the Governor was already set in movement as all of the members current had supported the proposed transfer.
“There is a proposal for altering the law so that the governor can be replaced by the education minister as the ‘visitor’ of private varsities. In Thursday’s Cabinet meeting, there was a discussion on this and the proposal was supported by the members,” the official was quoted by information company PTI as saying.
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