KU VC’s letter says syndicate members rejected DLitt to Prez

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TIMES NEWS NETWORK

09.01.2022

Thiruvananthapuram: A week after senior Congress leader Ramesh Chennithala raised a set of questions regarding Kerala University’s alleged refusal to confer honorary DLitt on President Ram Nath Kovind as suggested by governor Arif Mohammed Khan, a handwritten letter by Kerala University vice-chancellor V P Mahadevan Pillai to the governor in this regard has come out.

In the letter dated December 7, the VC recalled an earlier meeting he had with the chancellor and stated that several members in the KU syndicate had turned down the chancellor’s suggestion that honorary DLitt be conferred on the President.

“I met His Excellency last week. After the meeting I have discussed with several members of the syndicate about the matter of conferring DLit degree to His excellency the President of India. The members of the syndicate turn it down (sic),” the letter said.

It was on the very next day the governor wrote an elaborate letter to chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan on the unacceptable level of political interventions in the higher education sector and expressed his desire to relinquish the chancellorship of state universities at the earliest. However, the governor in his letter did not specifically mention about the reply he received from the KU VC. Meanwhile, Chennithala said the VC crossed all limits and flouted procedural norms.

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