Even after 10 days of Tribhuvan University Vice Chancellor Kesharjung Baral's resignation, Chancellor and Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has not accepted it. Vice-Chancellor Baral's resignation has left the university without a leader and also created academic confusion. Prime Minister Oli has the option of accepting Baral's resignation and proceeding with the process of appointing a new vice-chancellor or rejecting the resignation and allowing Baral to continue in charge.

A close professor says that Baral was forced to resign due to the interference of the Prime Minister and non-cooperation of the government. Baral also stated that he resigned due to lack of working environment and said that he will disclose the detailed reason for his resignation after the final decision. Since his appointment, he had been saying that he would leave the post if he was unable to work because he was not a vice-chancellor. He was committed to implement the plan and thinking paper submitted to the government to become the vice-chancellor.

Experts comment that the vice chancellor was forced to resign due to the interference and non-cooperation of Prime Minister Oli as well as the ruling UML and its fraternal organizations. However, Baral submitted his resignation letter to the chancellor's office on March 15, citing health reasons.

There is a provision in the University Act that if there is no vice chancellor, the rector can be given the acting responsibility for 3 months and during that period, a recommendation committee can be formed and the process of selecting and appointing the vice chancellor can be started. The professors say that as none of these processes are initiated, the university is without leadership and there is academic and administrative confusion. Ramesh Kumar Joshi, president of the Nepal Professors' Association, said that without a vice-chancellor, the daily administrative work would come to a standstill. "It is unfortunate for the university that the Vice-Chancellor appointed for 4 years has to leave the post in 12/13 months," he said.

Baral was appointed Vice-Chancellor on February 10, 2080. He was appointed Vice-Chancellor by the then Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal. A professor of Trivi Sabha said that since Oli became the Prime Minister last June, the relationship with Baral has been strained. Moreover, Oli, the president of the UML in the ruling coalition led by Dahal, was dissatisfied with Baral since March 2080. The professor of the assembly said that the vice-chancellor may have resigned due to obstacles in passing policies and programs, interference in the process of appointing deans, the locking of the student organization of the ruling party, and the recent unfair pressure to make contract teaching staff permanent. 

Vice-Chancellor Baral recommended Khadg KC as Rector and Kedar Rizal as Registrar saying that he should form his own team. But Prime Minister Oli insisted that the registrar should appoint an associate professor. However, due to the stand of then Education Minister Sumana Shrestha and Baral, the appointment could not be made as Oli wanted. 

Likewise, Chancellor Oli stopped the policies and programs presented by the Vice-Chancellor in the University Assembly on July 15 and instructed to pass only the budget. Baral had expressed his displeasure in the meeting saying that the chancellor had interfered. Professors say that the relationship between the chancellor and the vice-chancellor, which appeared on the surface at that time, has deteriorated further when it comes to the issue of permanent teacher-staff from internal competition. 

UML General Secretary Shankar Pokharel publicly criticized Vice-Chancellor Baral saying that a drama was staged in the name of meritocracy when he tried to appoint deans on the basis of merit. Pokharel raised a question about the Vice-Chancellor's appointment process and warned that "certain ideological groups should not be prohibited" in the appointment of Deans. After Prime Minister Oli also gave an ultimatum to the Vice-Chancellor for the appointment of deans, 8 deans were appointed from Bhagbanda.

In that, UML leaders-activists and the close student organization Aneraswaviyu threatened and warned officials including the vice-chancellor. In opposition to the appointment of the Dean, the ANERASWAVIU University unit had staged a sit-in at the door of the office of the Vice-Chancellor and obstructed the entry to the office itself. Under the government's instructions, the vice-chancellor entered into an agreement with Aneraswaviyu. 

A dean said that the vice-chancellor may have resigned due to the pressure from the prime minister level to make contract teaching staff permanent due to internal competition. Baral also said that if teachers and staff are appointed through internal competition, the university will be pushed back by another 20 years. Even the Supreme Court has given a verdict not to appoint teachers and staff through internal competition. Contrary to the verdict, the University Staff Union, which is dominated by the EMLA employees, had been holding a protest program, including encircling the Vice-Chancellor's office, demanding to promote internal competition.