WB Cabinet Passes Proposal To Make CM Mamata Chancellor of State Universities

The move seeks to replace West Bengal Governor Dhankhar with Banerjee as the chancellor of state-run universities.

The West Bengal Cabinet on Monday, 6 June, passed a resolution to replace Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee as chancellor of state-aided universities under different departments like Health, Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Minority Affairs Department.

The resolution will have to be further passed in the state Assembly.

Currently, Governor Dhankhar is the Chancellor of all state universities, such as University of Calcutta, Rabindra Bharati University and Jadavpur University among others.

The decision would likely lead to a fresh confrontation between the Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo and Governor Dhankhar, who have been at loggerheads since the latter assumed the governor's post in 2019.