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Kolkata walks in silence, condemns Presidency
vandalism
Thursday April 11, 2013 08:40:32 PM,
IANS
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Kolkata: Hundreds of
students, alumni, teachers and employees of Presidency University
staged a protest march in the city Thursday, condemning the
vandalism of the prestigious institution and demanding punishment
for the miscreants.
The five-km march from the university gates saw the protestors -
sporting black arm and head bands - walking silently carrying
placards denouncing Wednesday's vandalism.
"We were threatened with rape, and even beaten up. The hooligans
threatened me thrice, saying if I leave the campus, they will rape
me," a student told reporters.
Activists of the Trinamool Congress Chhatra Parishad, the party's
student wing, stormed the Presidency University campus Wednesday
and thrashed students, including girls.
The vandalism was part of a series of state-wide retaliatory
attacks in the wake of the heckling of West Bengal Chief Minister
Mamata Banerjee and Finance Minister Amit Mitra by activists of
Students' Federation of India, the student wing of Communist Party
of India-Marxist, in New Delhi Tuesday.
Some of the protesting students accused the police of inaction
when the attackers ran amok, vandalising the heritage Baker
Building which houses the historic physics laboratory where
eminent scientists like Jagadish Chandra Bose, Satyendra Nath Bose
and Meghnad Saha did their research work.
"There were several policemen inside the premises when the goons
attacked and assaulted us. But they chose to be mute spectators
despite our constant wail for help," said another student.
The university has sought the intervention of Governor M.K.
Narayanan as well as the chief minister for a probe into the
incident.
"I have already given an eye-witness account of the entire
incident to the governor. I appeal to him as well as the chief
minister to initiate a serious probe into it to ensure such a
deplorable incident never recurs," Vice Chancellor Malabika Sarkar
said.
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