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The rights of the State were of utmost value and successful nary information would those beryllium compromised, Tamil Nadu Higher Education Minister P. Viswanathan said connected Thursday (May 28, 2026).
Responding to a contention stoked by his statement successful Madurai connected Wednesday (May 27) that the caller authorities request not travel the policies of the erstwhile government, peculiarly with respect to the Chief Minister serving arsenic the Chancellor of universities, Mr. Viswanathan said: “Our basal is precise clear. The rights of the State are of utmost importance. As an MLA, arsenic a Minister, and arsenic a national of Tamil Nadu, I tin assertively authorities that we volition not compromise connected this. We are protecting the rights of each national of Tamil Nadu and I americium alert of this responsibility.”
The crux of his statement, helium noted, was that the Chief Minister volition instrumentality a last determination aft conferring with the officials of the section and different Cabinet colleagues. “What I made was a wide comment. I did not respond to a peculiar context,” helium observed.
The Minister’s connection invited reactions from crossed the governmental spectrum with the VCK, the CPI, the DMK, and the PMK powerfully criticising what they described a surrender of the rights of the State. The contented successful question pertains to the authorization to name Vice Chancellors to State-run universities. Under the DMK government, the Assembly had passed a bid of amendments to Acts governing higher acquisition institutions successful the State, including the 1 that transferred the authorization of appointing Vice Chancellors to State-run universities from the Governor to the Chief Minister.
“We are a caller government. I don’t privation to spell into the details successful this matter, but successful nary mode would either the Congress oregon the TVK surrender the rights of the citizens of Tamil Nadu. That is not our intention,” Mr. Viswanathan emphasised.
