Ashok Bhushan, J.

These three Writ Appeals have been filed against the judgment dated 20.7.2015 in W.P(C).No.20491 of 2015. Both the writ petitioner, Dr. Somasekharan Unni P.K. and the first respondent, Mahatma Gandhi University are in appeal against the judgment. Another appeal has been filed by one Arya Thampi, who was not a party to the Writ Petition but claims to be affected by the judgment. W.A. No.1663 of 2015 is being treated as leading appeal and it shall be sufficient to refer to the pleadings in W.A.No.1663 of 2015 for deciding all these Writ Appeals. The brief facts of the case are as follows:

The Mahatama Gandhi University has been established under the Mahatma Gandhi University Act, 1985 (hereinafter referred to as 'the Act') as a new teaching and affiliating university in the State to provide for urgent development of higher education. The fourth respondent, Chairman of the Sponsoring Committee of M.G. University Self Finance College of Commerce and Literature, who is also a member of Senate of the University and President of Kaviyoor Grama Panchayat, submitted a proposal to start a new Undergraduate and Post Graduate Vocational Course in the self financing sect