Leaders hit new low in acrimony | Vadodara News

Vadodara: The annual senate meeting of the M S University, which met after a gap of two years, witnessed acrimonious scenes over the controversy surrounding the varsity’s land.
The meeting on Monday was held at the Deep auditorium of BBA building instead of the senate hall at university head office in view of Covid-19 pandemic.
After the presentation of the annual report ended, Congress leader and senate member from technology faculty, Narendra Ravat, questioned why the university authorities were evading answer related to donating or selling university’s land free of cost. Ravat had asked whether the vice-chancellor or syndicate members can sell or donate the land.
The university authorities have replied in writing that the information is ‘exhaustive’.
Things turned ugly when Ravat alleged that the BJP-backed syndicate members, who have a majority in both senate and syndicate bodies, had ‘sold off’ the land and that the university has received nothing against its value of Rs 200 crore that is transferred to the state government for construction of samras hostels.
BJP-backed senate members — Jigar Inamdar, Mehul Lakhani and Mayank Patel — fiercely countered Ravat. Two other senate members — Kapil Joshi and Nikul Patel — entered into heated arguments with the trio in Ravat’s support.
The meeting witnessed murky mudslinging, personalized attacks with Ravat alleging that the syndicate members were selling off the land of the university and the saffron group calling him ‘katki baaz’ (habitual of taking commissions illegally).
The shouting match and ruckus continued for a while after which Ravat walked out of the meeting.
Later in the day, Joshi sat on the floor of the house to protest against the short time given to him to make a representation regarding alleged irregularities in the university’s budget.
Joshi said that while he was asked to wind up within 10 minutes, another senate member who was praising the university authorities was given 20 minutes so that he can continue with these adulations.