Calcutta University postpones exam on TMCP's foundation day, triggers controversy

Issuing a notification on Friday, CU's Controller of Examinations, Jayanta Sinha, declared to postpone all examinations of the public state university's undergraduate courses, which were scheduled to be conducted on Aug 28.

"Undergraduate examinations scheduled on 28.08.2018 has been deferred," the notification said.

"The revised date of examinations will be announced shortly," the notice further read.

The notification, however, did not disclose the reason behind the sudden deferment of examinations on Aug 28.

Leaders of CPI-M's students' unit, Students' Federation of India (SFI), alleged that to help ruling party's students' wing in celebrating its foundation day, the university cancelled examinations on Aug 28.

"We are condemning of Calcutta University's decision to postpone its exams on August 28 for TMCP's foundation day celebration," an SFI leader told IBNS. "We will hold a protest against it."

Meanwhile, a TMCP leader claimed that the organization had no idea why the university had deferred the examinations on that day.

"Neither TMCP run Calcutta University nor we requested its authority to postpone examinations on August 28 for our foundation day celebration and we have no idea about the university's decision," a leader of TMC's students' wing said.

However, no reaction from the university's officials has been received so far.

(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)