KOLKATA: Tension broke out at Jadavpur University (JU) campus in South Kolkata on the intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday over clashes between the Students' Federation of India (SFI), the CPI(M)'s students’ wing and the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP).
The tension between the two rival students’ unions erupted over the general body meeting of the Faculty of Engineering and Technology Students' Union (FETSU).
The SFI has claimed that the ABVP has been trying to take control over the JU since the formation of the new state government in West Bengal, mobilised outsiders within the university campus and resorted to vandalism.
The ABVP, on the other hand, has accused the SFI, assisted by activists of the Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)- affiliated Democratic Students’ Organisation (DSO), of launching an attack on the ABVP office-bearers inside the campus in the guise of a general body meeting.
Some of the students injured in the clashes are currently under treatment at the nearby K.P.C. Medical College and Hospital.
The local Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator from Jadavpur Assembly Constituency, Sarbori Mukherjee, an actress-turned-politician, arrived at the hospital on Thursday morning to enquire about the injured students admitted there.
Both the rival groups have lodged FIRs at the local Jadavpur Police Station over the incident. At the same time, both the rival students’ wings have announced massive protest demonstrations on Thursday over the issue within the campus. (IANS)
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