The ongoing chaos and bitterness regarding the appointment of Gujarat Governor Acharya Devvrat as Gujarat Vidyapith’s Chancellor was palpable on Tuesday. For the first time in its 102-year history, the Vidyapith’s convocation – its 68th – was held in the absence of the Chancellor.
At the ceremony, 32 PhD, 15 M.Phil, 415 Post Graduate, 410 Bachelor and 56 Post Graduate degrees were awarded.
Nine Gujarat Vidyapith trustees – Narsih Hathila, Dr Sudarshan Iyangar, Dr Anamik Shah, Manda Parikh, Uttam Parmar, Chaitanya Bhatt, Neeta Hardikar, Michael Mazgaonkar and Kapil Shah – who have resigned over the move to make Gujarat Governor Acharya Devvrat, an RSS man, the Vidyapith’s new Chancellor, issued a joint statement on Tuesday.
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The trustees said that the appointment of Devvrat as the new Chancellor “was rushed through, not by consensus but by a badly fractured vote”. They further said, “Gandhi’s philosophy cannot be reduced to mere natural farming, cattle breeding or nature cure,” referring to the election of a non-Gandhian to the top post.
