Printed on: Dec 15, 2025 10:04 pm IST
The governor’s office stated the President of India had withheld assent from the three Bills passed by the West Bengal assembly in 2022.
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KOLKATA: President Droupadi Murmu has withheld assent to a pair funds passed by the West Bengal assembly in 2022 that sought to interchange the governor with the chief minister as chancellor of remark-aided universities, governor CV Ananda Bose’s office stated in a assertion on Monday.
“It will also be infamous that the predominant Acts of the remark-aided universities grasp the provision that “the Governor shall, by virtue of his office, be the chancellor of the university”. Hon’ble President of India has withheld assent from the above Bills,” the assertion stated.
The three funds — West Bengal College Rules (Amendment) Invoice 2022; Aliah College (Amendment) Invoice, 2022 and the West Bengal College of Smartly being Sciences (Amendment) Invoice, 2022 — were passed by the assembly in 2022 amid tensions between the remark executive and the governor’s office, which turn out to be only within the near previous renamed as Lok Bhavan as adverse to Raj Bhavan.
But Jagdeep Dhankhar, the Bengal governor on the time, did no longer give assent to those three funds. Governor Ananda Bose took over as Bengal governor in November 2022.
Education is a self-discipline within the concurrent record of the Constitution, which methodology the Centre has equal instruct on disorders associated to it.
In April 2023, Bengal education minister Bratya Basu demanded that Bose definite the Bills and claimed that the passage of the three funds with an absolute majority implied that chief minister Mamata Banerjee turn out to be the chancellor of all remark-aided universities.
The Bengal executive later moved the Supreme Court docket against the Raj Bhavan for no longer clearing eight funds passed by the assembly.
In July 2024, the governor stated six of the eight funds had been reserved for the distinction of President Murmu, one eager a sub judice subject whereas the eighth invoice turn out to be pending since the remark executive hadn’t answered to clarifications sought by him.
To make definite , Rashtrapati Bhavan in July 2024 returned Punjab Universities Rules (Amendment) Invoice to the Punjab Meeting. This invoice turn out to be passed by the remark assembly in 2023 and proposed to interchange the governor with the chief minister as chancellor of remark universities.
TMC remark vice-president Jay Prakash Majumdar stated the President can repeatedly refuse assent to the funds, but the subsequent executive would rob within the thunder again. Bengal goes to the polls in 2026.
“In line with the Supreme Court docket’s rulings, a governor or the President might perchance presumably ship a Invoice serve with or with out suggestions, but they cannot lend a hand a remark executive waiting indefinitely. The next executive will rob in these Bills again. If there is any recommendation from the President, then this might perchance presumably be included and a new Invoice might be passed by the assembly,” Majumdar told HT.
