New Delhi: More than two months after students and teachers launched protests demanding removal of Tezpur University Vice-Chancellor (V-C) Shambhu Nath Singh, the campus witnessed a dramatic turn of events late Thursday. The university’s senior-most professor stepped in as Acting V-C after the campus community rejected Singh’s attempt to appoint a Pro-V-C, escalating an already fraught standoff.

The discontent stemmed from allegations of financial and administrative mismanagement by Singh and his prolonged absence from campus, and intensified in September over his allegedly insensitive response to students’ plea to postpone the students’ council elections following singer Zubeen Garg’s untimely death and the V-C’s “disrespectful” remarks for the singer, one of Assam’s biggest cultural i

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