Tuesday, Jan 10, 2012
Kottayam: The tussle between the UDF-appointed syndicate members and the earlier dispensation selected during the LDF regime appears to be escalating at the Mahatma Gandhi University, with the new syndicate members taking the fight directly with the Vice-Chancellor and approaching the Chancellor seeking his intervention.

Meeting aborted
The issue in focus is the aborted meeting of the reconstituted syndicate on Saturday, in which five members of the former syndicate had tried to participate. With pandemonium erupting on account of the struggle between the two groups, the Vice-Chancellor had postponed the meeting to January 12. On Monday, the newly appointed members approached the chancellor alleging the connivance of the Vice-Chancellor and the Pro-Vice Chancellor in the stand taken by former syndicate members. Alleging that the Vice Chancellor and Pro-Vice Chancellor were acting like “local level party workers”, they, in a memorandum, asked the Chancellor to direct the Vice Chancellor and Pro-Vice Chancellor to act according to the provisions of the MG University Act and Statues.

In another letter, George Varghese, one of the newly appointed syndicate members, asked the Vice Chancellor to institute an inquiry into the ‘lapses' on the part of the university officials which had resulted in the presence of the former Syndicate members at Saturday's meeting.

The move on the part of the newly appointed syndicate members comes in the wake of the inquiry instituted by the Vice Chancellor in the forced signing of the minutes book by a section of the syndicate members of Saturday.