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JU: Protesting students meet Education Minister
After getting his call on Thursday, the students of JU went to Bikash Bhawan to meet Partha Chatterjee for a discussion to end the ongoing crisis.
Demanding the resignation of Vice-Chancellor Abhijit Chakraborty, some students are on a hunger strike from Monday night.
They went in an ambulance to meet Partha Chatterjee.
The meeting reportedly failed to yield any positive result as the students stick to their demand.
On Friday evening one of students participating in the indefinite hunger strike, Shibam Ghosh, fell sick and has been admitted to nearby KPC Medical College and Hospital.
Partha Chatterjee also met with the delegation of Jadavpur University Teachers' Association (JUTA) and the Vice-Chancellor of JU Abhijit Chakraborty separately on the same day.
After the meetings, Partha Chatterjee told IBNS that he needed more time to control this situation and to find the solution of this crisis.
On Sept 16 last year the VC had called the police to remove protesting students of the university from the main administrative building, leading to a crackdown on them and arrest of 37 students during the night.
The students were protesting against a molestation incident on the campus and demanding an impartial probe into it.
(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)
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