Row over appointment of dean at NIT-Calicut

A political row erupted in Kerala on Wednesday following the appointment of a professor, who was booked last year for praising Mahatma Gandhi's assassin Nathuram Godse in a social media post, as one of the deans of the National Institute of Technology-Calicut (NIT-C).

- HT Correspondent

KOCHI:

Shaija Andavan, a professor of mechanical engineering at NIT-C, was recently appointed as the dean of planning and development at the institute and is set to take charge on March 7. However, parties such as the opposition Congress strongly opposed the elevation due to the comments she made about Godse.