Bihar Governor Slams Patna University VC Over Campus Violence After Student's Death

Patna: Bihar Governor Arif Mohammad Khan on Saturday made a surprise visit to B.N. College, where a student was killed in a bomb blast two days prior.

The Governor stayed in the college for 45 minutes, visited hostels and different departments, and held a meeting with the college principal and students.

Khan, a former president of Aligarh Muslim University, condemned the bombing in the college and the killing of its student.

Earlier, while addressing a gathering of media persons at the Bihar Industries Association, he regretted the insensitivity of the Vice-Chancellor of Patna University towards violence on the campus and commented, "The University has been handed over to anti-social elements."

A visibly furious Governor passed strictures on the working of the Vice-Chancellor and said, "A similar incident had taken place last year. When I assumed office at Raj Bhawan in January, I had called the VC and asked him to submit a report on lawlessness in the University. After the latest bomb incident, I summoned the VC yesterday and inquired whether the report sought four months back has been submitted to Raj Bhawan. The VC had the audacity to say, 'Yes, the report is ready, but still to be signed by me (VC).'"

"Then I told the VC, now meetings will not be held in Raj Bhawan, but in the colleges," the Governor stated, before spontaneously rushing to B.N. College.

He complained, "I feel ashamed. I am in great pain, in tears over the working of the universities in Bihar."

Arif Mohammad Khan claimed Bihar universities are managed "worst." He added, "Threats are being given to the newly appointed teachers."

He claimed he had been Chancellor of 15 universities in Kerala but never felt lawlessness like in the universities in Bihar. "There was only one issue – appointments on a certain ideological basis to which I did not succumb," Khan said.