Slamming the Centre, Yadav in his reply on September 10 had wondered whether the Ministry would have acted with similar “zeal” had he joined Congress.
Stating that he was not alone in holding the UGC post while being in a political outfit, Yadav referred to the Nehurvian days when Acharya Narendra Deva, a renowned scholar of Buddhism and the national president of Socialist Party, a leading opposition party of the day, was appointed the Vice Chancellor of two universities consecutively.
