Much as it happened at Jadavpur University, Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar was on Tuesday prevented by agitating students from attending the convocation ceremony of the Calcutta University where he was scheduled to give away the honorary D’Litt degree to Nobel Laureate economist Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee.

Hundreds of students who gathered at Nazrul Manch the venue of the programme carried “No NRC-No CAA banners” and shouted “go back” slogan even as they blockaded the Governor’s vehicle and then prevented him from rising on the stage forcing him to remain confined inside the green room, sources said.

The programme was stalled for more than an hour and was resumed only after Dhankhar who is also the Chancellor of the University left in a huff in the wake of a verbal assurance by the Vice Chancellor to the students that the “Chancellor will not attend the programme” and that the “degrees will be given away by me.”

Similar incidents took place at JU last year when the agitating students blockaded the Governor and prevented him from attending the convocation. There also Dhankhar was not allowed to give away the awards.

Later in the day Bengal Education Minister and senior Trinamool Congress leader Partho Chatterjee said “such agitations are not desired in the university but the students everywhere do stage protests … in such cases the person against whom the protest is being staged has to realise the reasons behind the agitation… we in the education department do not want that such high posts of the Chancellor gets sullied by controversy but if the person on the post does not understand that and smears his own image than what can we do?”

The Governor has not been in good relations with the Mamata Banerjee Government with the Chief Minister regularly accusing him of acting as a tool in the hands of the “BJP which is running a parallel Government through him in the State.”