Nine of 24 trustees of the Gujarat Vidyapith, founded by Mahatma Gandhi in 1920, have resigned to protest state Governor Acharya Devvrat's appointment as the new chancellor under "political pressure".
Nine trustees of the Gujarat Vidyapith on Monday, in a joint statement, announced their resignations to protest the "undue haste" shown in selection of new Chancellor of the university under "political pressure".On October .
The move comes as a shocker on the eve of the convocation function of the 102-year-old heritage institution of learning painstakingly created by the Father of the Nation who remained its Chancellor until his assassination.
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