Khalsa University comes under ‘review’
Monday, 03/04/2017
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Chandigarh : Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh is learnt to have asked his officials to review the file passed by the earlier Parkash Singh Badal-led Cabinet regarding the setting up of Khalsa University on the campus of Khalsa College in Amritsar.
The Chief Minister is learnt to have accused the Khalsa College Governing Council of attempts to dilute and subvert the heritage status of the century-old college.
Mincing no words, the chief minister has reportedly said that the move was ‘illogical’ and was aimed at undermining the Guru Nanak Dev University by setting up a private university to mint money.
Captain Amarinder Singh’s family has had a long association with Khalsa College. While his grandfather Maharaja Bhupinder Singh and father Maharaja Yadvinder Singh were its Chancellors from 1927 to 1952, he too was Chancellor between 1972 and 1978.
The Cabinet in July last year had given its nod to setting up Khalsa University. It began operating from the college campus a month later. The Khalsa University Bill, 2016, was passed by the Vidhan Sabha in September.
Captain Amarinder had then declared that if voted to power, the Congress would scrap the legislation.
