Thiruvananthapuram:

Kerala’s Left-led authorities right this moment determined to take away Governor Arif Mohammad Khan as Chancellor of Universities in a sharply escalating confrontation that has been build up for days.

Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s cupboard voted to herald an ordinance or particular order to take away the Governor from the put up. Effectively, the Governor can be requested to log off on an ordinance that cuts down his position.

Rajeeve, Kerala legislation minister mentioned they weren’t attempting to curtail the powers of the Governor. “We have no powers to curtail powers of Governor. it is a constitutional authority, whose functions are well explained in the constitution. What we have done is we have adopted an ordinance on appointment of chancellor. That is the prerogative, legislative competency of state legislature. We feel the chancellor should be an eminent person from the education field.”

A senior CPIM chief, Thomas Isaac, accused the Governor of constructing pro-BJP appointments in universities. “Governor of Kerala is conniving to appoint BJP sympathizers as VCs of Universities. This is not acceptable to the people in the State. Therefore, there is no choice before GOK other than remove Governor from the post of Chancellor and appoint eminent academics in his place,” he tweeted.

Governor of Kerala is conniving to nominate BJP sympathizers as VCs of Universities. This isn’t acceptable to the folks within the State. Therefore, there is no such thing as a alternative earlier than GOK apart from take away Governor from the put up of Chancellor and appoint eminent lecturers in his place.

— Thomas Isaac (@drthomasisaac) November 9, 2022

The Left authorities’s transfer is the newest in its disagreement with Governor Arif Mohammad Khan over the functioning of universities, together with the appointment of Vice Chancellors. The Governor had mentioned on three current events that he didn’t wish to keep Chancellor due to the mess. At a type of occasions, it was the Chief Minister who had requested him to remain on.

State Law Minister P Rajeev denied that the federal government is attempting to snub Mr Khan. “The appointment of a chancellor is a statutory position. We can amend the law and appoint a chancellor,” mentioned the minister.

The state authorities’s play comes days after the Governor requested the Vice Chancellors of all 9 universities within the state to resign. The Vice Chancellors later approached the High Court difficult the Governor’s order. That will come up for listening to on November 17.

It all began when in October, the Supreme Court sacked Dr Rajasree MS as Vice Chancellor of the APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University (KTU) in Thiruvananthapuram citing a violation of college guidelines. The appointment had been accepted by the Governor as Chancellor.

According to the principles, the Chancellor has to nominate the Vice Chancellor from a listing of names really helpful by an official committee. But the federal government named solely Rajashree MS in its advice. The Supreme Court mentioned the Chancellor “had no other option” earlier than him as there was no listing of names.

After the sacking, the Governor appointed Ciza Thomas as Vice Chancellor in-charge of the college. The state authorities requested the High Court to cancel the appointment. The courtroom yesterday refused to take action.