Students, cops injured in college poll violence

January 20, 2015 12:00 am | Updated 05:40 am IST - KOLKATA

: Over a dozen of students and two policemen were injured when violence broke out in Uttar Dinajpur district of West Bengal over the college unions elections on Monday.

Former West Bengal Minister Srikumar Mukherjee, who was present at the spot when the violence occurred, held demonstrations outside Itahar Police station demanding that those responsible for the attack be detained.

At least four students of the All India Students Federation (student wing of the Communist Party of India) were injured at Itahar when members of the Trinamool Chhatra Parishad (the Trinamool Congress’s student wing) allegedly attacked them.

The students, along with Mr Mukherjee, were participating in a procession brought out to protest the TMCP’s attempts in trying to thwart the AISF from filing nomination papers at Meghnad Saha College at Itahar.

BJP State president Rahul Sinha told journalists that TMCP members fired gunshots at six members of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidhyarthi Parishad (BJP’s student wing) at Meghnad Saha College. He added that he had informed West Bengal Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi about the incident who had sought a report.

In another incident at Raiganj’s Surendranath College, about 12 students and two police officials were injured in a clash between the TMCP, Students’ Federation of India (student wing of the Communist Party of India-Marxist) and the ABVP.

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