VC appointments: Kerala Guv rejects CM's allegations of political interference
Governor Khan challenges Pinarayi Vijayan, asks whether he would resign if he is unable to prove or substantiate his allegation
Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan on Thursday rejected allegations by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan that the former was politically interfering in the appointment of Vice-Chancellors to universities in the state and offered to resign if even one example of the same could be shown.
Khan also openly challenged the Chief Minister, asking whether he would be able to resign if he was unable to prove or substantiate his allegation.
Khan lashes out
“They (Left government, CM) are saying I am doing this (action against VCs) to bring RSS people. If I have nominated even one person, not just of RSS, any person, on my own using my authority, then I will resign. Will he (CM) be able to resign if he is not able to prove it? I am asking you (media),” he said, speaking to reporters in New Delhi.
“When you make such a serious charge against me, you have to substantiate the same,” he added.
He was responding to reporters when his stand was sought on Vijayan’s allegations against him on Wednesday at a convention in Thiruvananthapuram, where the CM said the Governor was trying to make universities in the state a centre of RSS and Sangh Parivar and that Khan was trying to implement the saffronisation agenda of these groups.
With agency inputs
