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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-backed Senate and Syndicate members of the University of Kerala (KU) connected Saturday (November 15, 2025) submitted a petition to Governor Rajendra Arlekar who is besides the Chancellor of universities to instrumentality steps to escaped the assemblage office from “criminals.”
Addressing mediapersons aft petitioning the Governor, Syndicate subordinate P.S. Gopakumar said they met Mr. Arlekar to pass him astir the superior lapses successful instrumentality and bid astatine the Senate gathering connected November 12.
The KU campus, peculiarly the Palayam office, had been taken implicit by radical who were not adjacent students of the assemblage and were accused successful respective transgression cases. They posed a menace to the information of the university. They had blocked the car of Vice-Chancellor Mohanan Kunnummal. Syndicate members were incapable to locomotion freely done the varsity field oregon the Palayam office. Threats were issued to their lives, Mr. Gopakumar alleged.
Alleging a information lapse connected the time of the Senate meeting, Mr. Gopakumar sought an enquiry into the introduction of ‘criminals shouting slogans’ into Senate Hall adjacent arsenic the condolence gathering to wage tributes to erstwhile Vice-Chancellor V.P. Mahadevan Pillai was on. The constabulary did not bash thing to rein successful these people, helium said.
It was alleged that the Acts and statutes of the assemblage were being violated, particularly those related to meetings of the Syndicate and Senate. There was a deliberate bid to disrupt these meetings arsenic portion of an agenda. Consequently questions raised by Senate members connected “encroachment of varsity land” for constructing AKG centre oregon allowing amerciable usage of varsity infrastructure for offices of immoderate unions of assemblage employees remained unanswered, Mr. Gopakumar said, claiming Left intolerance to questions.
It was successful these offices that “criminals” met and hatched plans, helium said, seeking a probe successful the matter.
Mr. Gopakumar alleged a diminution successful the university’s world standards successful caller years. Admissions were declining and complaints astir probe and thesis papers were being raised. There were reports of a nexus betwixt thesis guides and pupil national activists.The anticipation of interventions to rise world prime were discussed with the Governor, helium said.
