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Jadavpur University protest over union polls: Students' meeting with Chancellor becomes fruitless

India Blooms News Service | | Jan 12, 2016, at 04:42 am

#Jadavpur University # students' union # Keshari Nath Tripathi # JU protest # VC gheraoed

Kolkata, Jan 11 (IBNS): In the trilateral meeting on Jadavpur University (JU) students' union election issue, in presence of West Bengal governor Keshari Nath Tripathi, agitating students of the university and Executive Council (EC) members, could not reach to a permanent solution on Monday.

Demanding students' union election in right time, students of JU earlier hosted sit-in-demonstration in front of university's main administrative building- Aurobindo Bhavan- and gheraoed the Vice-Chancellor, registrar and other officials for 54 hours from Friday evening.

After the university authority fixed the meeting with Chancellor/Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi, protesting students on Sunday night called off their sit-in-demonstration.

However, after the meeting ended, one of the students' representatives Swarnendu Barman, who attended the meeting, told IBNS, "We would be happy, if governor directed to host students' union election at JU in right time. He neither said yes nor no. Chancellor Keshari Nath Tripathi told us about his few problems. He said that he had to take some legal advises. We will host our General Body (GB)'s meeting on Wednesday to decide our next step."

Few days earlier, JU authority sent a letter to West Bengal government's education department, seeking permission to host students' union election on Feb 18, which was rejected.

The WB government has already notified all universities and colleges not to host union polls in January and February.

(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)

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