For the first time, a tussle has erupted between the Bihar Government and Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar, also the Chancellor of the State’s universities, with the latter asking the Education Department to withdraw its order to freeze the bank accounts of two officials of the B.R. Ambedkar Bihar University in Muzaffarpur.
Replying to a letter from the Education Department, Principal Secretary to the Governor, Robert L. Chongthu, sent a letter to the bank, asking to de-freeze the accounts with immediate effect. The Education Department on August 17 had ordered a stop to the payment of salary to two university officials.
Reacting to the issue, former Deputy Chief Minister and Rajya Sabha member, BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi, said that due to the arbitrary decisions of the Education Department, chaos and uncertainty ranged from primary schools to the level of universities.
