Heated discussions between Senate members reached such a pass that the meeting had to be adjourned four times on Tuesday itself. Whether the Senate or Syndicate should pass a condolence motion for late Syndicate member Suren Choksi to whether the acting Registrar could chair the meeting or if the Senate elections be postponed everything sundry was talked about.

After the customary condolence messages for former Senate and Syndicate members, the meeting adjourned for half an hour and began with a demand to remove the in-charge Registrar Niranjan Pandya from the dais. Quoting rules, Senate member Narendra Parmar said the in-charge Registrar should not be occupying a position on the dais. He conceded the V-C could consult him but since he was neither a Senate member nor an officiating registrar, he was not entitled to be a part of the decision-making.

No member objected to Parmar, but when the V-C succumbed to the pressure and asked Pandya to vacate the dais, the professors and other members took a strong exception and dubbed it an insult of the professor.

Senator Nilesh Shukla, who had kept mum when Parmar raised the issue, said that when chairing the meeting the V-C should not bow to demands of a few but be attuned to the interest of the teaching fraternity at large.

It was only after much debate that Pandya was called back and by the same members who had no word to say when he was told to vacate. Just when the Senate was about to take up the day's business, another member raised an objection over holding of the elections stating the time specified in the agenda had passed out.

Before this could be settled, citing examples about the statute and the university rule book was Narendra Tiwari who found fault with the entire proceedings of the Senate and sought its adjournment, irrespective of the fact that important business like a debate on the budget had to be transacted before the end of the month. University administrative officials opined that the way things had operated on Tuesday, it seemed to be a pre-planned attempt to show the indecisiveness of the V-C in his first annual Senate meeting.