JU student death: Governor meets faculty, minister says ask him why anti-ragging rules not implemented

JU’s head of English Department Manojit Mandal, who is a member of the ruling Trinamool Congress, was not allowed to attend the meeting.

“The Governor assured that he will be appointing a vice-chancellor for the university soon. During the discussion, JU faculty members pitched a proposal that security arrangements can be handed over to ex-servicemen,” said a source.

Talking to reporters after the meeting, JU’s computer science department head Nandini Mukhopadhyay said, “We do not have a permanent vice-chancellor. Several posts are also vacant. There were discussions about quick recruitment and security safeguards.”

Meanwhile, state Education Minister Bratya Basu, who met the dead student’s family in Nadia,  said the Governor should answer why the anti-ragging law has not been implemented at the university. “The Raghavan Committee report came in 2002 and the Supreme Court’s direction came in 2009… How can we answer why the anti-ragging law was not implemented?.. Today, someone is trying to take control of the universities from Governor’s House with the help of the BJP. You should ask him why is he calling a court meeting illegally with the university staff today at his residence,” Basu     told mediaperson s in Nadia.