Around 400 people, including former state university VCs OM Prakash Mishra, Debnarayan Bandyopadhyay and Dipak Kar, senior professor Abheek Majumdar, and poet Subodh Sarkar, among others participated in the protest before submitting the letter to the Governor's secretariat.
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The minister also said the governor's move was "violative of the bill passed by the state assembly, concerning the roles and functions of the governor as the chancellor of varsities and the state government"