Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee has agreed to become the new chancellor of the Viswa Bharati University at Santinekatan. A message from the human development ministry to university Vice-chancellor Dilip Kumar Basu on Monday said that Mr. Vajpayee has accepted the proposal to become the chancellor of the Viswabharati University.

The university authorities had sent the names of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, scientist Avid Hussain and industrialist Rratan Tata to President K R Narayanan. Mr Narayanan proposed the name of Mr Vajpayee for the post. Bureau Report