Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) Opposition walked out of the Kerala Assembly on August 24, warning the government that rampant nepotism in varsity appointments had caused a palpable sense of restiveness in the sizeable section of well-educated but less-privileged young job aspirants in the State.
Congress legislator, Roji. M. John, who moved the Opposition’s adjournment motion on the issue, highlighted the controversial appointment of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s private secretary, K.K. Rajesh, ex-MP, as Associate Professor in the Department of Malayalam, Kannur University (KU) as a case in point
Kerala Governor Arif Muhammad Khan had stayed the appointment recently and issued show-cause notices to the Kannur Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Gopinath Ravindran, and Ms. Varghese. Gov. Khan had also raised a similar charge against the government.
