WB Governor and CM Mamata duelling over VCs' meeting, Congress asks 'what's the fuss?'

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and the Governor of the state, Jagdeep Dhankar, are both known to have an acrimonious relationship. The two have locked horns again over the video conference meeting between the Chancellor and the Vice-Chancellors of the state-aided universities.

West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankar in a press conference on Thursday said that the situation of education is worrisome.

"I have written to CM earlier too as well. I work as Chancellor for students. The government says there is no provision of video conferencing with Vice Chancellors. Political flipped education won't help students in fact it will hurt the students. I'm trying to improve the education scenario," Dhankar said stating that his intent is to work for the welfare of students and the education system.

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Reacting on the situation, Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Choudhury has also opined that nothing disastrous would have happened if the permission to conduct the video conference would have given by the state government. He opined that such a sour relationship between two heads of the state is not good for the education sector of the state.

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The tussle over video conference meeting

Governor Dhankar Dhankhar, who is also the de facto Chancellor of all state universities had called for a meeting on July 15 with the vice-chancellors of the state-aided universities by writing a letter to them on July 7 and 9. However, the vice-chancellors did not attend the meeting as the law of the state says the request for the meeting should be routed through the higher education department of the state government.

The law was changed last year due to which the vice-chancellors said they need a directive from the state's education department to attend the meeting. However, amid the back and forth in a communication between the parties involved and the politics over who has the control over the vice-chancellors, none of the vice-chancellors attended the meeting except the VC of West Bengal University of Health Sciences. 

State government's response

Besides some of the vice-chancellors found the letter by the governor and chancellor as humiliating and intimidating, according to reports. Also, the state government in response to the governor has written that the communication between the chancellor and the vice-chancellors needs to be mandatorily endorsed by the state government.