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In an exclusive interview given to Manorama News, Arif Mohammed Khan said the State government must convince him why the chancellor is being changed.
An illusion of super powers is bad enough but on top of it is Khan's by now notorious intolerance.
The draft ordinance prepared by the Law Department is likely to be taken up for discussion at the Cabinet meeting today.
The vice-chancellors had moved the court against the governor's show cause notice asking them to cite reasons why they should not be sacked from their posts.
Friday’s resolution was supported by 50 senate members and opposed by seven.
Khan extended the ultimatum till November 3 and said he was willing to listen to what the VCs had to say, thereby accepting the HC verdict allowing them to carry on for now.
The legal fight that Sreejith started in the High Court against the appointment of the VC of the tech varsity has ended up with his resounding triumph in the Supreme Court.
In a special sitting held to consider the petition filed by the vice-chancellors, the high court asked whether the VC appointments were prima facie illegal.
He reiterated he is only trying to uphold the verdict of the SC, which said the selection process of the VCs that is repugnant to the UGC norms, shall be void ab initio.
The minister said the order was an attempt to create stagnation in the higher education sector and that it was definitely a setback for the sector's progress.
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