The disgruntled professors said the appointments made by newly appointed Vice Chancellor Bishnu Raj Tiwari were against the University Act and demanded to rectify it.

Prime Minister and PU Chancellor Sushil Koirala appointed senior professor Bishnu Raj Tiwari to the post of VC. The VC and other posts of PU had been lying vacant for quite a while after the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) arrested PU officials on the charge of misappropriation of funds and filed suit against them at the special court.

Soon after assuming VC post, Tiwari appointed Rajesh Thakurathi as registrar, Anup Acharya to Office of the Controller of Examination, Nirmal Jamarkattel as Dean of Faculty of Science and Technology, Deepak Bhandari as Dean of Faculty of Management and Ajay Thapa as Dean of Faculty of Humanities.

The CPN-UML affiliated Progressive Professors Association and Maoists [UCPN (Maoist) and CPN-Maoist] affiliated National Professors Association objected to the decisions saying the appointed office bearers include only those affiliated to Nepali Congress and junior in rank.

Defending his decision, VC Tiwari claimed that he has always been against the practice of political distribution of the posts and said the appointments were made on the basis of seniority.