Describing the Punjab Cabinet’s decision to scrap Khalsa University as “most unfortunate”, the Khalsa College Governing Council (KCGC) on Wednesday said that it would seek legal opinion to save the varsity.
At the same time, the Council accused Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh of “political vendetta”.
“We are seeking legal opinion to save the university, which has already registered more than 300 students in various classes from graduation-level to PhD since the Government’s nod to the varsity in August 2016,” said Khalsa University chancellor Satayjit Singh Majithia and pro-chancellor Rajinder Mohan Singh Chhina in a joint statement.
They alleged that “vendetta politics is being played to kill the educational project”.
“There is not even an iota of truth in the argument that varsity hampers the heritage building. The college is functioning as an autonomous institution and university is housed in separate buildings,” said Majithia.
Chhina said that it was happening for the first time that a Government is scrapping the university for ‘political reasons’. He hit out at Chief Minister for playing to the gallery of the lobbyists and did not try to find the truth behind the project.
Majithia pointed that false base was being made that chunk of land has been taken away from Kahlsa College while the fact is that the land is already earmarked to the already established Colleges which are part of the University and no more land is taken away.