Kochi: Congrees student outfit KSU has put up banners against the Chief Minister and the governor at the CUSAT campus in Kochi on Tuesday night. 

‘Universities in Kerala are not meant to be partitioned among the CM and the Governor,’ one of the banners reads. 

Another banner refers to the two as the ‘chief’ and the ‘saffron-clad governor.’ They are untouched by democracy and pose a threat to the land, it read. 

The development comes at a time when political appoints to senates in Kerala varsities are in the limelight. The banners put up by the KSU are also deemed as a response to the alleged widespread violence unleashed upon the KSU-Youth Congress workers who took out black flag protests since the beginning of the Nava Kerala Sadas. 

KSU has put up the banners in the context when the ‘war of words’ between the governor and the CM has turned sour. The CM was seen supporting the SFI activists who protested against the governor and called them the promise of the future.

The attacks between the two turned personal with the governor overtly referring to the CM as a ‘criminal’ while the latter responded by calling the governor ‘deranged’. 

At the same time, SFI had also put up banners on the campus that read, ‘We want a chancellor, not Savarkar’.