College students Assault Bengal Minister Bratya Basu At Jadavpur College As Protests Flip Violent – News18
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West Bengal Schooling Minister Bratya Basu was injured and his automobile vandalised throughout scholar protests at Jadavpur College.
Screengrab of the protests that came about at Jadavpur College. (Picture: X/@amitmalviya)
Members of CPI(M) college students wing SFI on Saturday obtained engaged in a brawl with West Bengal Schooling Minister Bratya Basu and broken his car within the Jadavpur College (JU) campus. The incident came about as the scholars demanded speedy holding of scholars’ union elections dates within the state.
Basu, who went to the JU campus to attend the annual normal assembly of West Bengal School and College Professors Affiliation(WBCUPA), tried to talk to the agitating college students whereas leaving the campus however the crowd went uncontrolled. The coed broken the windscreen of his automobile, smashed the rearview mirror of his car and even confirmed him sneakers.
In the meantime, the BJP attacked the ruling Trinamool Congress over the incident and blamed the Mamata authorities for the scholars’ anger. Attacking Mamata Banerjee’s authorities, BJP’s IT cell head Amit Malviya acknowledged that the TMC’s 2026 dream is just too distant.
Taking to X, he wrote, “Simply the opposite day, Mamata Banerjee was fist-pumping and waxing eloquent about successful in 2026. Right this moment, Bratya Basu, West Bengal’s Schooling Minister, was accosted by indignant college students at Jadavpur College.”
“Basu’s cavalcade almost ran over a scholar on campus, additional agitating the protesters. There’s huge anger within the scholar neighborhood in opposition to Mamata Banerjee following her mishandling of the RG Kar rape and homicide case. At this charge, 2026 could also be too distant,” he added.
Simply the opposite day, Mamata Banerjee was fist pumping and waxing eloquent about successful in 2026. Right this moment, Bratya Basu, West Bengal’s Schooling Minister, was accosted by indignant college students at Jadavpur College. Basu’s cavalcade almost ran over a scholar on campus, additional agitating the… pic.twitter.com/TKqfOI1NuA— Amit Malviya (@amitmalviya) March 1, 2025
Minister Injured In Scuffle
The minister was later taken to state-run SSKM Hospital the place he complained about uneasiness and struggling gashes on his left hand, which was hit by damaged glass shreds, reported information company PTI.
“I’ve undergone an x-ray check as I felt ache in my chest. Nonetheless, medical doctors advised me there was no critical damage. There have been some exterior marks on the higher a part of my physique however these are usually not critical,” he stated whereas leaving the hospital.
“I used to be prepared to speak to the protesting college students. Even the SFI handed over a memorandum to me, however once I was about to board the automobile once more, over 100 protestors turned aggressive and surrounded me. I used to be prepared to talk to 5 representatives even within the presence of the vice-chancellor, however they didn’t need constructive dialogue,” he stated, including, “They needed chaos and lawlessness. They tried to assault my car.”
He stated the protestors didn’t completely belong to SFI however different ultra-left outfits energetic on the campus as effectively.
The minister stated regardless of grave provocations on the a part of the agitating college students, his safety guards didn’t react nor did he search intervention from the accompanying police escort as “we don’t imagine in violence and entry of police into campus.”
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Basu, who can be the president of WBCUPA, stated the true undemocratic, unruly self of the left college students’ outfit was uncovered by their protests as they shouted slogans in opposition to the members of the educating neighborhood.
“Right this moment those that had protested in opposition to saffronisation of the nation, those that made tall claims about preventing for democracy, preventing in opposition to fascism, immediately joined fingers with fascist forces to exhibit in opposition to me and members of the educating neighborhood simply because we didn’t succumb to their stress techniques, their intimidatory techniques,” Basu stated earlier.
He stated to a query, “Ram and Bam (rightwing and left forces) have joined fingers to disrupt the peaceable environment on the campus. They manhandled one in every of our members.” Basu claimed that a number of WBCUPA members have been injured after being bodily assaulted by the protesting college students.
“Can they clarify if such vandalism and assaults on senior school members, if such vandalism on a whole bunch of WBCUPA representatives from everywhere in the state, could be repeated by the left-wing activists in BJP-ruled states the place ABVP controls the campus? Will they dare to commit such an act within the campus?” he stated.
SFI chief Kaushiki Bhattacharya stated the scholars solely needed to have a dialogue with the Schooling minister with the only real demand to conduct college students’ union polls on the earliest.
“We didn’t resort to violence. It’s the TMC outsiders who joined a few of their sympathisers on the campus to assault our activists and use abusive language in opposition to us,” she stated.
She claimed that two left scholar activists have been injured after the vehicles in Basu’s convoy ran over their ankles and so they needed to be admitted to hospital in critical situation.
Denouncing the protest by SFI college students, TMC state normal secretary Kunal Ghosh stated our persistence and tolerance shouldn’t be mistaken as weak point by those that are behind the assault.
Ghosh who went to satisfy Basu on the hospital stated, “It was a deliberate assault on a minister by left ultra-left components who solely wish to create chaos. What would have occurred if the windshield and rearview mirror had come off and grievously injured the minister who was sitting on the entrance seat subsequent to the motive force? Our persistence and tolerance shouldn’t be mistaken as weak point by those that are behind such assaults.” Earlier within the day, police managed to deliver Basu contained in the campus via one other gate as the primary gate was blocked by protestors.
After Basu’s automobile left, a bit of scholars tore festoons, and banners put up for the WBCUPA AGM and heckled senior school members like Omprakash Mishra. Additionally they vandalised the room of the TMC lecturers’ wing cell and set the furnishings on hearth alleging two of their colleagues have been intentionally hit by the automobile of Basu to clear his method.
The protesting SFI college students additionally blocked the arterial S C Mallick Street close to Jadavpur police station and 8B bus terminus for about an hour earlier than it was withdrawn as commuters intervened.
(With inputs from PTI)
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West Bengal, India, India
