Leaders of various political parties have come out against the State government’s decision to allot 10 acres of land at Thiruvalla in Pathanamthitta district to set up a campus of the Kasaragod-headquartered Central University of Kerala.
K.P. Satheesh Chandran, Kasaragod district unit secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), said that the move was part of a high-level conspiracy to deprive Kasaragod of the important campus of the Central University, sanctioned in 2009.
High-level officials of the CUK appeared to be involved in the conspiracy to take away the important campus of the CUK out of the district, Mr. Satheesh Chandran said in a statement here on Sunday.
The CUK was allotted to Kasaragod considering the educational backwardness of the region compared to the southern parts of the State. However, there had been moves to stifle the growth of the CUK right from the beginning by making a proposal to set up the proposed medical college attached to the CUK in Pathanamthitta district.
Communist Party of India leader E. Chandrasekharan, MLA, urged the people of the district to resist all moves to set up the university’s campus outside the district.
He said that the move to set up a campus at Thiruvalla was aimed at shifting the proposed medical college to Pathanamthitta district, and it amounted to cheating the hundreds of hapless victims of endosulfan.
Bharatiya Janata Party district general secretary K. Sreekanth alleged that Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee president Ramesh Chennithala and University Vice-Chancellor Jancy James were behind the move to shift the proposed medical college from Kasaragod and the decision amounted to cheating the people of the district.
