The Visva Bharati University has informed the HRD Ministry that they have set up a three-member committee to look into the incident of BJP MP Swapan Dasgupta confined in a room for several hours when he visited the campus on January 8 to deliver a lecture on the new citizenship law.
Dasgupta, Vice Chancellor Bidyut Chakraborty and others were confined for six hours in a university building as hundreds of Left-leaning students staged a sit-in outside accusing the politician of promoting hatred among communities.
“The university has formed a three-member committee to look into the matter where BJP leader Swapan Dasgupta had said that he was locked in a room with a mob outside, at the university, where he was addressing a meeting on Citizenship Amendment Act on January 8,” said a senior HRd Ministry official. Dasgupta had taken to Twitter to inform about the incident.
The panel will also look into alleged clash between two groups of students of the university on January 15. According to police officials, armed with rods and sticks, a group of men attacked the students of a boys’ hostel inside the Visva Bharati campus on Wednesday night leaving several of them injured.
At the backdrop of the controversy and unrest in premier universities like JNU, Jamia Milia Islamia, AMU, the Viswa Bharti university officials informed the HRD Ministry about the incident and that they would enquire into the incident and submit the report at earliest.
“How does it feel to have a mob attack a peaceful meeting on CAA and intimidation students? This is what is happening to a meeting I am addressing at Vishwa Bharati now. Locked into the room now with mob outside,” Swapan had tweeted.