WB Assembly brings bill to replace Governor Dhankar with CM Banerjee as chancellor of State-run Universities

Jun 13, 2022

Kolkata, June 13 (ANI): Amid opposition by the Bharatiya Janata Party legislators in West Bengal, the state Assembly on June 13 brought a bill that sought the replacement of Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee as the chancellor of all the state-run universities. State Education Minister Bratya Basu, after introducing The West Bengal University Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2022 in the House, said, “We've brought a bill to change our Governor from the post of the chancellor only. We offered and suggested that Chief Minister will be the chancellor and the whole house accepted it. Now we're sending it to Governor.”