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After his resignation arsenic the Governor of West Bengal C V Ananda Bose has reached retired to his detractors not lone successful West Bengal authorities but besides successful the State’s world circles.
While it is nationalist cognition that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee reached retired to the outgoing Governor, exchanged pleasantries and called him an “erudite person”, what is small known that the Mr. Bose has besides reached to academicians peculiarly with whom helium was not connected the aforesaid leafage arsenic acold arsenic assignment of Vice Chancellors of State tally universities was concerned.
Dr. Bose met Professor Omprakash Mishra, erstwhile Vice Chancellor of North Bengal University and caput of the WB Educationists’ Forum who on with different academicians had challenged the Governor’s determination to name authorized persons as Vice- Chancellors arguing that it had an adverse interaction connected the higher acquisition of the State.
The Supreme Court had to intervene successful the assignment of Vice Chancellors of the State tally universities successful West Bengal and had acceptable up a committee headed by erstwhile Chief Justice of India U U Lalit to bring a statement implicit the appointments. By the extremity of February 2026, appointments of each but three State- run-universities had been completed and the Supreme Court had expressed restitution implicit the issue.
Professor Mishra, who teaches International relations astatine Jadavpur University, said that helium met the erstwhile Governor astatine a State-run normal Centre. “He was astir polite and generous with his appreciation, It was genuinely an honour to accidental goodbye to him connected the eve of his departure from West Bengal and permission down the ineligible wrangling of the past fewer years. I wished him bully wellness and a agelong life”.
Speaking to The Hindu, the academician who has been instrumental successful resolving the quality implicit assignment of Vice Chancellors by highlighting the issues for past 3 years said that Dr. Bose is an erudite idiosyncratic and the basal taken by the WB Educationists’ Forum successful the involvement of higher acquisition of West Bengal has been vindicated.
