On Saturday, the convoy of Bratya Basu, the Minister of Education of West Bengal, ran through a protesting student of the first year of the Ministry of English at Jadavpur University. The incident occurred after a meeting of the TMC at the West Bengal Colleges and the University Professors’ Association on campus and protested against students to discuss the union elections with the Minister of Education since 2020.
The incident occurred after a meeting of the TMC at the West Bengal Colleges and the University Professors’ Association on campus and protested against students to discuss the union elections with the Minister of Education since 2020.
The students stated that funds and a lack of facilities to be grasped and stated that they protested peacefully to reinstate the union’s elections, which would enable them to effectively convey their symptoms with the authorities concerned. The students also called for the implementation of a gender -specific sensitization committee against sexual harassment (GSCash) on campus.
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According to the students, the Minister of Education refused to meet them.
He rejected our inquiries and tried to leave the campus. When the students tried to stop his car, the convoy ran through a protesting student of the first year ‘P*, a UG student told the engineering system to FII.
According to medical reports, the student of the first year that was exceeded could possibly permanently damage one of his eyes and legs, the students say. When the chaos developed afterwards, protesting students claimed that members of the TMC and TMCP, the student wing of the government party, attacked the students who protested and injured many. “When we went to the nearby police station in Jadavpur to submit a complaint against the malfuncants as a collective student body, the police refused to take over our complaint and called for the names and telephone numbers of all the complaint.
According to medical reports, the student of the first year that was exceeded could possibly permanently damage one of his eyes and legs, the students say.
“The harassment didn’t just stop here,” says P*. ‘Firs submitted by the state against the protesting students. TMCP rackers have put the students down, went into their homes and threatened them. A student was wrongly accused of burning the TMCP office and taking away from the police. His whereabouts are unknown at that time. ‘
The media information about the case of Jadavpur University
Like many progressive and liberal public universities, Jadavpur University was historically slandered by the state and the mainstream media to serve a political agenda. The first media reports on this incident on Saturday were also scattered in misinformation and disinformation. A heading of The new Indian Express Read: ‘Westbengal Education Minister Bratya Basu, which was attacked by SFI leaders at Jadavpur University‘. The most News headlines mentioned how the minister “damn” and his vehicle was “destroyed”. However, the attempt to murder a protesting student was tactfully left out.
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‘Half -truths are always dangerous. The Mainstream media’s malicious attempt to play Lacke for the statistical forces is shown that the existing media stories are trying to distort the actual truth and to blame the students. ‘Ritwik Goswami, a student of history at JU, told FII.
When the state of West Bengal Amazing prices From unemployment, the tendency of the media, the attention of urgent, real issues in the state on the supposed “hooliganism” of students who protested their rights, shows concerted efforts to paint liberal university spaces in a negative light in order to turn public awareness against such progressive spaces.
“The defamation of Jadavpur, Jamia Milia, Jnu and other such rooms was a continuous effort.”
-Ritwik Goswami, student.
‘This narrative is not just anti-ju, but anti-progressive. The defamation of Jadavpur, Jamia Milia, Jnu and other such rooms was a continuous effort. We recently saw it in Jamia and also in JNU in 2016, ”says Ritwik.
“The media have an effort to cope with misinformation and disinformation in order to twist stories. That is shameful, «says an English student from UG3.
Protests stay with JU, Medicos set up
On Monday, the students demanded a university width and a strike after the incident. After a general body of the department in the afternoon, the students of the English department designed a list of requirements that contained written support for students of the faculty and condemned the incident. Subsequently, a protest rally was carried out by the collective student body of the university, which demanded the accountability for the Minister of Education, the removal of Fir against innocent students and the immediate reinstatement of the union elections.
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“We fight for our right to vote on campus and let our voices hear. We are calling for an immediate solution to our symptoms, ”said a protesting student to FII.
The protest rally was also accompanied by medical students from various medical universities in Kolkata. ‘Ju had unconditionally supported the medical faculty during the protest against the rape of 2024 RG KAR. There is a need for the student community to bring together to combat the state -sanctioned injustice.
The need for the state to recognize the requirements of the students
From the JU protests from 2014 during the Hok Colorob movement (let’s be his noise), in which the students protested against the brutal police students who opposed the attempt by the authorities to trivialize a case of sexual harassment in the university, the TMC government, which was distanced from the TMC government, was in the TMC government in the closing of to close student lobilizations in the state. The end of the union elections and the attempt to scrap approval tests at JU were among the many efforts by the state government to contain autonomy in JU, which suppresses dissent in any form.
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There is a need for the government to create a space for students in which they can tackle their problems and receive a quick solution. The authorities and the state have to work together to enable the students and solve their problems. Ju’s students demand that the government do it and immediately work to ensure that the university area becomes beneficial for discourse, contradiction and democracy.
*Names were hidden to protect identity.
Ananya Ray has completed her master in English from Jadavpur University in Kolkata, India. As a published poet, intersectional activist and academic author, she has a great interest in gender, politics and postcolonialism.