Kolkata: Jadavpur University vice-chancellor Suranjan Das on Wednesday said some “fringe elements”, and not students of the institution, were involved in raising anti-national slogans on Tuesday even as the campus was awash on Wednesday with posters and banners calling for “azadi” for Kashmir and Manipur and supporting Afzal Guru.
In another significant development, a group of supporters of ABVP took out a counter-rally on Wednesday. Claiming to be university students, they suddenly stormed onto the campus carrying national flags and shouting “Bharat Mata ki Jai”. They tore down the banners and posters, terming them anti-national. They claimed that they destroyed all posters and banners because they could not tolerate the insult to their motherland and the defamation of their university. Jadavpur University has been on the boil since Tuesday over the police crackdown at Jawaharlal Nehru University.
