Visva Bharati University students hold protest, claims shutting down of varsity

Only few students have joined such protests and classes are being conducted in different departments of the central university smoothly, the varsity official said. 

A group of Visva Bharati University students has claimed that they had forced the closure of the institution demanding revocation of suspension orders handed down to seven students on disciplinary grounds. They also demanded that the decision to sack senior faculty member and Economics professor Sudipta Bhattacharya, should be revoked.

Only few students have joined such protests and classes are being conducted in different departments of the central university smoothly, the varsity official said. 

Visva Bharati SFI leader Somnath Sow said "on behalf of the protesting students that the university has been shut down due to the agitation Monday and they would continue protests till the undemocratic act of suspension of classmates and sacking of Prof Bhattacharya is revoked."

Sow is among the seven suspended students. The action against the students and Bhattacharya, in end-December, was preceded by gheraos, sit-ins and rallies inside the campus where the VC and his security guards were allegedly manhandled by protesters twice, forcing the central university to scrap the annual convocation and the heritage Poush Utsav. 

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