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JU Protest: Ministry of Home Affairs seeks report from WB Government
Posted On Feb 28 2016
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In spite of deployment of police force near Jadavpur Police Station, some ABVP members managed to break through the barriers put up by the police personnels and reached close to gate number 4 of Jadavpur University adding to the excitement and tension which was prevailing in the campus.
The Akhil Bharatiya Vidhyarthi Parishad (ABVP) activists on Thursday staged a protest against alleged anti-national slogans raised in the Jadavpur University campus.
It is to mention here that slogans in favour of Kashmiri martyr, Muhammad Afzal Guru, who was hanged three years ago, were raised at a rally yesterday taken out by JU students to express solidarity with JNU students protesting the arrest of their leader, Kanhaiya Kumar, under sedition charges. All I can say is that filing an FIR against our students is not the tradition of Jadavpur University. “We have to stand up against saffron terror and the fascism that is being brought down on the country by the Narendra Modi government in Delhi”, said a student taking part in the rally called by the Leftist students’ unions.
Subir Halder, state secretary of ABVP, claimed a stone was thrown by JU students at one of their activists who is now said to be hospitalised.
Students of Kolkata’s Jadavpur University carried out a protest march in support of the cause of Kashmir’s liberation and terrorists like Afzal Guru.
But others, like Jubi Saha, told NDTV that she did raise pro-azadi slogans for Kashmir and Afzal Guru and she did not believe she was doing anything anti-national. “On Monday, we will hold an executive council meeting and then prepare a report”, he said. “We don’t want to stop their rally, but we can’t let them enter the university”, said Rajeshwar Sinha, professor, Bengali Department.
Meanwhile, the Left parties made a decision to organise a rally in the city on Sunday to protest the JNU incident. “It does not mean that just because some fringe elements have raised certain issues the entire democratic set up, tradition is to be blamed”, he said.
