Bratya Basu's car attacked as students demand campus polls

Demanding immediate holding of students' union elections in Jadavpur University (JU) SFI and other left-backed students' organisations allegedly damaged the education minister Bratya Basu's car and set fire to Trinamul Shiksha Bandhu Samiti office inside the university campus on Saturday.

- STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE KOLKATA, 1 MARCH

The JU campus virtually turned into a battlefield this afternoon when the agitating SFI and other left students' union got involved in clashes in phases with the ruling Trinamul Congress-affiliated West Bengal College and University Professors Association (WBCUPA).

The trouble started around 2.30 p.m. when Mr Basu was supposed to attend the WBCUPA's annual general meeting (AGM) held at the open air theatre (OIT) inside the campus as the head of the association.

The agitating students were shouting slogans demanding students' union elections in the university when Mr Basu came. Sensing trouble he was taken to the OIT through another gate. The agitators rushed to the OIT and vandalised it when the minister was addressing the meeting.