Jadavpur University (JU) Row: Students, Political Activists Hit the Streets

Kolkata: Political temperatures shot up in the metropolis on Friday as political activists and students hit the streets, a day after Union Minister Babul Supriyo was heckled and assaulted by radical Left students in Jadavpur University for hours, following which ABVP workers went on a rampage and vandalized a students union room.

The radical Left students took out a three-kilometer long march from the university campus to Gol Park protesting against ABVP’s “vandalism” and the manner in which the Union Minister “provoked” students on Thursday. Students from the varsity’s arts, engineering and science faculties took part in the march. They alleged that on Thursday, Babul Supriyo made sexist remarks and “went on provoking us”.

The students representing radical Left associations and the CPI-M affiliated Students Federation of India (SFI) had originally planned to shout “go back” slogans and show black flags to the Union Minister, but things got out of hand when Babul Supriyo pushed some students, they said.

The students said they were “worried” over their security and “deeply pained” by the vandalism let loose by the ABVP on Thursday evening.

“The SFI’s union room has been vandalized, and the furniture, ceiling fan, and computers smashed. The wall of the room has also been defaced. They also beat up a shop keeper with rods and sticks and threw stones at us,” said a student taking part in the march. The SFI organized a protest rally from Dhakuria to the university campus - a distance of about two kilometers - in solidarity with university students and for resisting “fascist hooliganism in the campus”. (IANS)

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