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Supreme Court was scheduled to hear the deadlock over VC appointments on December 19.
The consensus was reached during the chief minister’s visit to Raj Bhavan to invite the Governor for the state government’s Christmas party.
Arlekar’s remarks come amid an ongoing tussle between the Governor and the state government over vice-chancellor appointments in Kerala’s universities.
With the possibility of a consensus on vice chancellors of two universities receding, the Supreme Court has stepped in.
Last week, the Supreme Court warned it would intervene to resolve the deadlock if Vijayan and Arlekar failed to reach an agreement by December 9.
The counsel for the Chancellor said they had written to Justice Dhulia seeking records of the committee proceedings.
The move shows the LDF’s new strategy to block BJP influence in state universities, since two of the three search committee members are Union government nominees through the Governor Rajendra Arlekar and UGC.
The Supreme Court had earlier, on July 30, urged the Governor and the government to resolve the dispute amicably to facilitate regular appointments.
Savarkar saw in independent Travancore an alternative, a counterweight, to secular India.
Attorney General R Venkataramani, representing the Governor, argued that the interim appointment complied with earlier Supreme Court directions.
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