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Jadavpur University Tensions Escalate After Alleged Midnight Campus Attack
Students held a late-night meeting at the JU campus.
The meeting was about student organization matters and the fact that elections had not been held for six years.
Some ABVP members also attended the meeting.
One student activist said ABVP members caused trouble and made provocative comments.
ABVP gave a different account and said the meeting was meant to create trouble for its supporters.
A fight then happened, and students from both sides were hit.
Later, students and social-media posts said a larger group came onto campus with sticks, rocks and bottles containing kerosene.
The article says some objects, including Left-group flags, were set on fire.
A late-night FETSU general body meeting at the JU campus ended in an altercation involving ABVP members.
The meeting was reportedly organized by Left groups and FETSU to discuss pending organizational issues amid a six-year gap in student elections.
Student activist Sheikh Nabab said ABVP members made provocative comments and created a disturbance during the meeting.
ABVP state media in-charge Ananta Barui said Left student groups organized the meeting to provoke and attack ABVP supporters.
Students and social-media accounts alleged that a larger mob later entered the campus carrying sticks, kerosene-filled bottles and rocks, and set objects including Left flags on fire.
- Who
- Members of FETSU, Left student groups and ABVP were involved, according to the accounts described.
- What
- A general body meeting was followed by an altercation and allegations that a larger mob attacked the campus.
- Where
- The JU campus.
- When
- Late Wednesday night; the article does not specify the date.
- Why
- FETSU and Left groups said the meeting addressed pending organizational issues after six years without student elections, while ABVP said it questioned how the meeting could occur without elections and alleged it was planned to target ABVP supporters.
FETSU and Left student groups
ABVP
Purpose of the meeting
FETSU and Left student groups
The meeting was called to discuss important organizational matters that had remained pending because student elections had not been held for six years.
ABVP
ABVP said the SFI, Democratic Student Organisation and Democratic Students’ Federation organized the meeting to create trouble and attack ABVP supporters.
How the altercation began
FETSU and Left student groups
Student activist Sheikh Nabab said ABVP members made provocative comments and created a disturbance during the meeting.
ABVP
ABVP members said some of their members were surrounded and shoved, triggering the altercation.
Events after the fight
FETSU and Left student groups
Students and social-media accounts alleged that a larger mob entered the campus with sticks, kerosene-filled bottles and rocks, and burned objects including Left flags.
ABVP
The article does not provide a separate ABVP account addressing the later allegations about the alleged mob and fires.
Key facts
- Meeting organizer
- Faculty of Engineering and Technology Students’ Union, along with Left student groups, according to the report.
- Election gap
- Student body elections had reportedly not been held inside JU for six years.
- Altercation
- People associated with both ABVP and FETSU reportedly received blows.
- ABVP account
- ABVP said the meeting was intended to create trouble and attack its supporters.
- Reported weapons and materials
- Students and social-media accounts alleged that people carried bamboo sticks, rocks and bottles filled with kerosene.
- Fire allegations
- Accounts cited in the article said objects, including Left-group flags, were set on fire outside the meeting venue.
Quotes
Sheikh Nabab
Student activist who attended the JU meeting
“Since student body elections have not been held in six years inside JU, the meeting had been called by Left bodies and FETSU to discuss important organisational issues that had been pending for some time.”
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“The SFI, Democratic Student Organisation and the Democratic Students’ Federation planned the meeting to create trouble and attack ABVP supporters.”
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