Governor appoints LDF nominee as interim malayalam university

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Signalling a potential thaw in relations with the state government, Governor Rajendra Arlekar has appointed C R Prasad as the interim Vice Chancellor of Malayalam University. Prasad was one of the three names proposed by the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) government.

The government had submitted a panel of three nominees to the governor who serves as the chancellor of state universities following the retirement of the incumbent VC-in-charge, L Sushama, on 31 May.

The panel comprised C R Prasad, Senior Professor and Head of the Department of Kerala Studies at Kerala University; Lissi Mathew of Sanskrit University; and P S Radhakrishnan of MG University.