Even as Governor KN Tripathi sought a report from Vice Chancellor Suranjan Das and remarked that the varsity was sliding into a “centre for disturbances”, almost 500 university students, led by the Left-backed Faculty of Engineering and Technology Students’ Union (FETSU), took out a protest march demanding arrest of ABVP supporters and a campus free of “BJP-RSS-ABVP terror”.
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FIRs have been filed by university authorities and nine female students separately over the alleged molestation by some miscreants, whom JU students claim were outsiders.
According to media reports, the complaint was lodged yesterday after police confirmed that some girl students were allegedly molested during the melee that ensued after the incident, as per PTI. JU vicechancellor Suranjan Das himself had to get into the thick of things as he and other university officials struggled to bring the situation under control.
The agitating students said they have nothing against the screening of the film, but were protesting against the divisive content in the film.
In the meantime, Governor K N Tripathi has also sought a report on this from the VC who said he is sending it.
Saturday’s marchwas a response to the chaos at Jadavpur Universityon Friday evening as an unauthorised screening on the campus of a movie by BJP-leaning filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri led to violence.
Later in the day, V-C Das also stood by the students and said: “Police is answerable here”. “He adds that the current spate of student protests is springing from what is being taught in universities. We will talk to the alumni association”, Das said.
At the end of the scuffle, the Jadavpur students managed to catch four of the alleged assailants and confine them to the guard room even as attempts were made to hand them over to the police. They have been handed over to the police.
“The students arranged a bed-sheet and turned it into a screen to see my film”.
Ganguly, who was on a live television show but rushed there remarked: “I learnt that our boys were being held, beaten up inside the campus and hence came here to rescue them”. The screening of a film, cleared by the Censor Board, was stopped illegally.
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The screening was originally scheduled at the varsity’s Triguna Sen auditorium, but the university’s alumni association cancelled the screening on Friday morning citing poll code violation.
