The University, set up in 1949, is in its golden jubilee year but the controversies surrounding it have pushed this fact to the background.

A letter from Board member Harshad Patel to GU Vice-Chancellor S B Vora pointed out that no programmes had been organised till date as part of the golden jubilee celebrations of the largest university in the state. He also threatened to resign if the university did not plan some programmes. ``The university has the time to hold emergency meetings of the syndicate, but it cannot think of involving the Board or forming a celebration committee which can organise programmes to make the university and its students proud,'' the letter said.

V-C S B Vora said there were a lot of issues that took up the university's time in the first five months of the current year. ``But we have thought of programmes to celebrate the golden jubilee, and we will certainly discuss them at the next meeting of the executive council,'' he said.