Students attacked by CPIM goons
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Student booked for Maoist 'link'
Statesman News Service
DURGAPUR, June 26: Three of the five students of United Students Democratic Front who were detained by Katwa police last evening were released after preliminary questioning. Though Lokeshweri Dasgupta, second year history student at Jadavpur University, Priyonkar Dey of JU and Supriyo Sur of Presidency College were released, Jaladhar Mahato was arrested for his suspected links with Maoists.
Police said that Jaladhar might have links with the Lalgarh squad of the Maoists in West Midnapore and his name had figured during investigations following two Maoist strikes in Belpahari in 2005. The other three students were released after police did not find any links with them and the Maoists. However, police are yet to question Ashim as his condition is not stable and is currently admitted at a local hospital with critical head injuries. All the five were taken to the Katwa police station yesterday following a squabble at a village about six km from Katwa town. Around 5:30 p.m. yesterday, the students were attacked by a group of CPI-M activists when they were seen taking measurement near the proposed thermal power super-project at Srikhand village. The villagers beat up the entire five-member group.
Labels: Bengal, NEWS, Student Politics
posted by Resistance 6/27/2007 08:30:00 AM,
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Nandigram: Students take over school from police
Saturday, June 16, 2007
NANDIGRAM/KOLKATA: The simmering tension in Nandigram reached a flashpoint on Friday when schoolchildren threw out the belongings of policemen camping in their school for the past five months. The agitated students claimed that the police camp was hampering classes and their studies.
The students of Gokulnagar Gobindajiu Sikshaniketan, a secondary school in Nandigram, have been bearing with the ominous police presence on campus since February. The school authorities have appealed to the district administration, senior police officers and the state home department on a number of occasions since then, asking them to shift the camp out of the school grounds. But the police have stayed put in their camp.
The space crunch and the commotion forced the teachers to conduct classes in two shifts. Students watched silently for months, but on Friday, the dam burst. Around 10.45 am, a large group of assembled students barged into the camp and started throwing out the belongings of the policemen.
They tossed out the cooking utensils and threw away the food prepared for the policemen. They also started shouting at them, asking them to leave at once. Teachers present tried to pacify the defiant students, but in vain.
Some of them - Dipak Bari, Khokon Das Adhikari, Mitali Bera and Mukesh Pramanik - were fuming. "We don't care about their duty or the tension in the area. Our studies were being hampered because of the police camp. They can go and stay anywhere else they want to," one of them said.
Headmaster Himangshu Sekhar Munian did not support the students' behaviour, but added in the same breath that repeated pleas to shift the camp out had fallen on deaf ears. Champak Choudhury, officer-in-charge, Nandigram police station, rushed to the spot and assured school authorities that the camp would soon be removed. A policeman, who bore the brunt of the students' ire, admitted that it was difficult for students to concentrate on their studies in such a situation.
Senior officers in Kolkata are yet to decide where they will put up the policemen now.
"We know we have to shift the camp, but we have to find an alternate location. We can pitch tents out in the open, but when it rains, the condition in the tents becomes really bad. There is no other place nearby to set up a camp," said Raj Kanojia, IG, law and order.
"This is not the first time that we have used school buildings. And sometimes, policemen there help school authorities. There was a camp at Rasiknagar, Purulia, where our head constables even held classes for students when there was a shortage of teachers," Kanojia said.
Times of India
Labels: Nandigram, NEWS, Student Politics
posted by Resistance 6/16/2007 12:23:00 PM,
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SFI (Social Fascists of India) pseudo leftist student union unleases terror in Calcutta
Friday, April 6, 2007
Reeling from blow after blow the social fascist student
organisation of the CPI(Marxist) has
un leashed terror after suffering humiliating defeats.
We now know from whom they learn this type of
criminal behavior.
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Post-poll, JU erupts - Anti-SFI union victory rally targeted, seven students injured | ||
The Jadavpur University (JU) campus turned into a battlefield on Thursday, as students and employees clashed after the announcement of the students' union election results of the science and engineering faculty. At least seven students were injured. All four seats in the union were won by the We The Independents (WTI), a non-political umbrella group opposed to the CPM-backed Students' Federation of India (SFI). The union has been under the control of anti-SFI students for the past 11 years. WTI members, who will hand over a memorandum to registrar Rajat Bandyopadhyay demanding action against the "attackers", lodged an FIR naming two teachers who they alleged had joined hands with non-teaching staff members in mounting an assault on a students' procession. Leaders of the anti-SFI camp demanded that the service of professors Dipak Kesh (mathematics) and Arghya Deb (physics) be terminated. Both teachers were unavailable for comment. Registrar Bandyopadhyay, reportedly busy in meetings throughout the day, could not be contacted. Soon after the election results were announced at 1.30 pm, WTI supporters took out a victory procession around the campus. Violence erupted when the march reached the Science Club, near the engineering faculty canteen and adjacent to the office of the JU Karmachari Samsad, the union of non-teaching employees loyal to the CPM. WTI members alleged that several non-teaching staff members, along with a few teachers and some outsiders who were seen holding red flags, attacked the "peaceful" procession. "They kicked and punched us and also assaulted us with iron rods, sticks and bricks," said Proloy Kumar Saha, a WTI leader and outgoing general secretary of the Science Faculty Students' Union. "Seven students, including myself, were injured. Someshwar Chandra fractured his hand and Surajit Sarkar sustained a neck injury. Among the others injured are Sourav Guha, Prottay Banerjee, Sourabh Mitra and Suman Majumdar," he added. Karmachari Samsad general secretary Saugata Roy denied the WTI charge. "The executive committee meeting of the union was in progress when the victory march came near our office. Some students from the procession ransacked the Science Club and then attacked our office," he explained. Dhrubajyoti Chakraborty, a member of the SFI's Calcutta district committee, claimed: "The anti-SFI organisations at the university were trying to foment trouble over the past few days to keep our loyalists at bay, and this was the outcome. Seven of our members were injured and one has fractured two ribs." When contacted, superintendent of police (South 24-Parganas) S.N. Gupta said: "We will take necessary action." SFI ruckus in South City College |
Labels: Bengal, NEWS, Student Politics
posted by Resistance 4/06/2007 09:23:00 AM,
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News report of SFI loss
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Following is a news report on the loss of SFI in Jadavpur University AFSU(Arts Faculty Student's Union) elections published in a leading kolkata newspaper. Forum for Arts Students (FAS) has swept the students' union elections of the Jadavpur University arts faculty, traditionally a bastion of the Students Federation of India ( SFI )
FAS won three seats, while All India Democratic Students' Organisation (Aidso) bagged the remaining seat. The elections were held on Tuesday. Counting of votes began at 11 am on Wednesday. The results were declared at 4 pm. The new vice-chairperson of the union Mahadyuti Adhikary won by a margin of 428 votes. General secretary Sourish won by 454 votes.
The assistant general secretary (day), Souro, and assistant general secretary (night) won by 401 votes and 52 votes, respectively. More than 1,800 students of the day section cast their vote. From the night section, about 180 students voted. The students voted for the posts of the day or night assistant general secretary, vice-chairperson and general secretary. In addition, the students also voted for their class representatives.
FAS, which is not affiliated to any political party, was formed in the aftermath of police intervention to break a hunger strike by the university students in June 2005 to protest the expulsion of three students. The SFI, the students' wing of the CPM, controlled the students' union for the past 11 years. Last year, FAS had wrested the vice-chairperson's seat from the SFI.
The Nandigram issue was a major campaign plank against the party this year. "We will work on student-related issues without interference from any outside body," said vice-chairperson Adhikary on Wednesday. "For instance, we have been mobilising support for a movement demanding better placements." "Even a few years back, there was a feeling that the SFI could not be beaten without political backing. Last year's results showed it could be achieved. This year's results reflect a change in the mindset of the students," added Adhikary.
SFI leaders said the verdict was "not unexpected", but the margin of defeat came as a surprise. The expected margin of defeat was about 200 votes, but FAS won by more than double the figure.
Labels: Bengal, NEWS, Student Politics
posted by Resistance 3/29/2007 10:04:00 AM,
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SFI,Wiped out in college polls
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Courtesy Revolutionary path
Today SFI, the student's wing of CPM, a social fascist, terrorist party in west bengal province of India was decisively defeated in the election to the Arts Faculty student's union(AFSU) in Jadavpur University in kolkata. They lost all the four portfolio seats to FAS(Forum for Arts Students) a newly formed organisation.
Jadavpur University is one of the most prominent and prestigious universities in India. Not only because of it's academic excellence but also the history of glorious student's struggle right from the 50's and 60's. It was the storm center of the naxalite movement of the 70's.
However SFI, a criminal organisation dominated by lumpens and thugs have been holding the arts faculty union for the past 8 years by using different fair and unfair tactics. But the students have now made it quite clear that they will not tolerate this tactics of intimidation to continue naymore. They will not allow their beloved university and its honour be trampled by the pseudo-leftist,criminals.
This election mandate also reflects the growing disdain that is prevailing among the students and youth of west bengal about the bourgeois policy of the West Bengal government to grab the land of poor peasants and give it to the profit monger MNCs to satisfy their ugly hunger.
SFI had made this so-called pseudo-industrialisation an issue and has got a slap from the student community. The students of Jadavpur University have categorically rejected the anti-people economic policy of the CPM(Left front0 govt. and their politics of terrorism , mass murder and mass rape.
Labels: Bengal, NEWS, Student Politics
posted by Resistance 3/28/2007 10:28:00 PM,
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