Governor nips Bratya claim

The governor on Monday denied having received from higher education minister Bratya Basu any inquiry report holding the vice-chancellor of the West Bengal University of Technology guilty of various offences.

Basu had on November 23 said he had forwarded four such reports to governor M.K. Narayanan and pleaded for the dismissal of Sabyasachi Sengupta, the vice-chancellor of the Salt Lake university.

“I have not received any report from the minister. Nor did he tell me anything in this regard,” Narayanan, the chancellor of all state universities, said on the sidelines of a Calcutta University programme.

Asked about the governor’s statement later in the day, Basu said: “It is true that I have not submitted any formal report to the chancellor. But I had informally sent four reports to him before our meeting on November 28.”

Basu had claimed that the inquiry reports held Sengupta guilty of financial irregularities, favouritism in granting affiliation to private colleges and other offences. He also said he had recommended “immediate dismissal” of Sengupta in accordance with the new ordinance governing state universities. The ordinance empowers the governor to sack a vice-chancellor found guilty of financial impropriety and certain other offences.

Basu went to meet the governor on November 28 apparently to discuss the issue.

On stepping out of Raj Bhavan, he said: “We discussed all the four reports at length. The governor will take actions accordingly.”

The minister also claimed that the governor had advised him to go slow and wait till the provisions in the ordinance were incorporated in a law. “The bill for the university ordinance will have to be passed in the next Assembly session (scheduled to begin on December 12). The governor will give his opinion on the issue after the ordinance becomes law. Till then vice-chancellor Sabyasachi Sengupta will continue in the post,” Basu had said.

Sengupta alleged that he was being victimised for turning down a request from the higher education minister to promote an MTech student of a private college who had failed the viva voce.

“The minister made the statement about forwarding the reports to the governor hours after I turned down the request,” Sengupta had said. Basu denied the allegation.

The above is from The Telegraph.

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Well done governor in calling the minister's bluff.