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Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan connected Wednesday defended the Kerala government’s detente with Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar connected the appointments of Vice-Chancellors (V-C) to APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University and Digital University, Kerala.
Mr. Vijayan said Mr. Arlekar called him and invited him to Lok Bhavan to scope a statement and extremity the uncertainty successful the higher acquisition sector. “During the interaction, I wondered whether a belated via media would ward disconnected the Supreme Court’s involution successful the dispute. I told Mr. Arlekar that the authorities required clip to question ineligible opinion. Consequently, the authorities consulted the Advocate General. He counselled that a mutually satisfactory statement was successful order, fixed that the Supreme Court had urged the authorities and Lok Bhavan to extremity the deadlock undesired by students, teachers, parents and the broader world assemblage by reaching an agreement,” helium said. (Consequently, the authorities appointed the Governor’s nominee Ciza Thomas arsenic the KTU V-C and the government’s prime Saji Gopinath arsenic Digital University V-C.)
Mr. Vijayan dismissed the Congress accusation that the Left Democratic Front (LDF) authorities had capitulated to the Governor to appease the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Union government. He said the authorities wanted to extremity the contentious play which disrupted higher education.
Mr. Vijayan besides defended allowing Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana (SNDP) Yogam president Vellappally Natesan to travel him successful the Chief Minister’s authoritative car to the venue of the Ayyappa Sangamam astatine Pampa successful September. “It was a courtesy extended to a elder national who heads an influential societal organisation. There is nary request to work narrow-minded authorities successful the episode. I spared Mr. Natesan, an octogenarian, from walking the region to the venue. Moreover, immoderate quarters attempted to represent Mr. Natesan arsenic immoderate untouchable villain,” helium said.
When asked whether Mr. Natesan’s “invective” against Muslims had alienated the number assemblage from the Left Democratic Front (LDF) during the section assemblage polls, Mr. Vijayan said: “Mr. Natesan has clarified that helium was not anti-Muslim. He stated that helium had reserved his disapproval for the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML).”
Mr. Vijayan said it would beryllium reductive to delegate the LDF’s mediocre showing successful the polls to the Sabarimala golden theft ungraded alone. “If Sabarimala had an adverse effect, it did not bespeak successful Pandalam, the heartland of the Ayyappa faith. The LDF wrested the municipality from the BJP. Similarly, profoundly Hindu temple towns, including Kodungalloor, remained with the LDF," helium said.
