While the instrumentality section of the assemblage was performing the puja wrong the college, the time conception of the assemblage built a pandal successful a lane extracurricular the college. (Image: jcccollege.ac.in)
A monolithic equipped constabulary beingness was observed astatine Jogesh Chandra Chaudhuri College successful Kolkata, wherever the institute held Saraswati Puja with permission from the Calcutta High Court Sunday. Kolkata had antecedently seen constabulary stationed with guns extracurricular colleges during elections and checking students’ recognition cards, but this level of information for Saraswati Puja was unprecedented.
This was aft the Calcutta High Court connected Friday asked the constabulary to region a makeshift pandal extracurricular the main gathering of Jogesh Chandra Chaudhuri Day College and Law College to let the instrumentality assemblage students to execute Saraswati Puja connected the campus. The single-judge seat of Justice Jay Sengupta had besides asked the constabulary commissioner to depute a associated commissioner and deploy equipped constabulary unit to guarantee students of some the time and the instrumentality colleges could clasp their pujas connected the campus, and nary outsiders were fto in.
While the instrumentality section of the assemblage was performing the puja wrong the college, the time conception of the assemblage built a pandal successful a lane extracurricular the college. Joint Commissioner of Police Ajoy Prasad said, “The Calcutta High Court had ordered that the puja beryllium carried retired nether constabulary supervision. I americium here, and the lawman commissioner (south) is besides here. We volition sojourn from clip to clip to guarantee everything goes smoothly.”
Meanwhile, students of the instrumentality assemblage alleged that outsider Sabir Ali and his radical person regularly been coming to the assemblage and threatening and harassing the students there.
As Education Minister Bratya Basu and Trinamool Congress MP Mala Roy visited the college, instrumentality students demanded that they would similar to sermon the contented of information and information wrong the assemblage campus. Basu met with the students wrong the principal’s country to perceive their grievances but refused to talk to the media aft the meeting.
TMC MP Mala Roy, however, told the media, “If the students privation to sermon something, we volition surely beryllium and perceive to them, but connected the time of the puja, we volition not perceive to slogans of “we privation justice”. This is not politics. Chief curate Mamata Banerjee has said each students volition bash puja.”
Roy further said, “We bash not cognize astir interior assemblage issues. We person not travel present to bash politics. Before this, nary 1 had told maine they wanted to accidental something. On February 6 oregon 7, I volition travel to the assemblage and talk to them astir their allegations. So that nary untoward incidental occurs and bid and tranquillity prevail.”
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Why Calcutta High Court intervened successful Saraswati Puja astatine college
Traditionally, some colleges observe Saraswati Puja separately connected campus. However, this year, allegations surfaced that the Day College students forcibly erected a pandal earlier the Law College’s pandal, efficaciously blocking the latter’s puja celebrations.
In response, Day College representatives denied involvement, claiming that outsiders were liable for mounting up the pandal. Following a enactment betwixt 2 groups of students implicit organising Saraswati Puja successful the college, a pupil moved a petition earlier the Calcutta High Court seeking its intervention.
The tribunal held that abstracted puja beryllium conducted for the Day College and Law College departments and the full lawsuit beryllium filmed and instructed the Charu Market constabulary presumption to dismantle an amerciable puja pandal acceptable up wrong the Day College premises and papers the process.
Meanwhile, Bapan Das, serviceman successful complaint of the Pukhuria constabulary presumption successful the Malda constabulary district, said, “Do not usage DJ, delight support the clip for soundbox and microphones, and each puja committees person been informed that astatine nighttime bash not permission the Pandals empty.”