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The rift betwixt Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and Governor Rajendra Arlekar widened further connected Friday with Mr. Vijayan accusing Mr. Arlekar of blatantly violating the Supreme Court (SC) directive regarding the assignment of Vice-Chancellors.
Interacting with mediapersons connected the day, the Chief Minister wondered however the Governor dared to interruption the apex court’s directive regarding the assignment of V-Cs to the A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technological University (KTU) and the Kerala University of Digital Sciences, Innovation, and Technology. The effect of Mr. Vijayan came against the backdrop of Mr. Arlekar conveying to the apex tribunal his penchant for appointing Ciza Thomas and Priya Chandran arsenic Vice-Chancellors of the technological and integer universities, overlooking the objection of Mr. Vijayan regarding Ms. Thomas.
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The State authorities followed the SC’s acquisition to springiness its precedence database of candidates for the post, and the Governor was expected to prime them from the list. However, the Governor appeared not to person considered the precedence database and adjacent went to the grade of picking a campaigner whom the Chief Minister had recovered ineligible for the post, helium said.
Meanwhile, sources adjacent to the Governor said that the Chief Minister’s comments connected the contented stemmed from his ignorance astir the Supreme Court bid regarding the assignment of V-Cs.
Responding to Mr. Vijayan’s allegation that the Governor had defied the apex tribunal directives, the Lok Bhavan maintained that the Governor acted successful accordance with the tribunal bid successful missive and spirit. Either the Chief Minister indispensable person been wrongly briefed astir the tribunal directive, oregon helium was successful the acheronian astir what the tribunal said. It could besides beryllium a lawsuit of the Chief Minister conveniently twisting the facts, they alleged.
The Supreme Court had intelligibly directed that the Chancellor was escaped to person his reservations astir the candidates recommended by the Chief Minister for assignment arsenic V-Cs. The tribunal had adjacent earlier stated it would intervene successful the substance if a statement was not reached betwixt the Chancellor and the Chief Minister, sources said.
