The stalemate at Vidyasagar University continued for the seventh consecutive day today with vice-chancellor Anandadev Mukherjee being forced to stay away from Midnapore because of 'wild agitations' by SFI activists. Mukherjee is functioning from his office at Jadavpur University, where he teaches in the Geology department. Important files are being referred to him by the registrar of Vidyasagar University, Jogen Debnath. 'I will not go to Midnapore until and unless outsiders stop vandalism in the name of organising students' movements,' Mukherjee told The Telegraph. In 1985, Calcutta University, too, had witnessed a similar situation. The then vice-chancellor, Santosh Bhattacharya, who was not allowed to enter his chamber at the College Street campus by the Citu-controlled employees association, functioned from his Palm Avenue residence. Mukherjee has met Governor Viren J. Shah, who is also the chancellor, and higher education minister Satyasadhan Chakraborty. 'Bothgave a patient hearing to me and asked me to continue my job from Calcutta. Both of them have assured me that they will initiate steps to bring back normalcy at the university,' he said. The SFI had organised a demonstration in the university campus last Wednesday demanding timely publication of results, probe into leakage of question papers of different university examinations and construction of a women's common. SFI members had met the vice-chancellor at his chamber to inform him about their grievances. But Mukherjee had refused to meet the SFI delegation on the ground that 'almost all the representatives were outsiders and not students of the university'. SFI activists then stormed into his chamber and manhandled him. The secretary of the CPM-controlled West Bengal College University Teachers Association (WBCUTA), Anil Bhattacharjee, was present at Mukherjee's chamber when SFI activists ransacked the office.