Within hours of masked mob attacking the prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University campus injuring dozens of students and teaching faculty members Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday raised her voice against the “brutality” perpetrated on students saying such an act brought shame to the democratic history of the country.
Condemning the atrocious attack on the students she said, “We strongly condemn the brutality unleashed against students/teachers in JNU. No words enough to describe such heinous acts,” adding “a shame on our democracy.”
The Chief Minister immediately decided to send a “Trinamool delegation led by (former Railway Minister) Dinesh Trivedi with MPs Sajda Ahmed, Manas Bhunia, Vivek Gupta to show solidarity with the JNU students.”
Another senior TMC leader and Bengal Education Minister Partho Chatterjee condemning the attack said students movements did take place in Jadavpur University in Kolkata “but never were any criminals allowed to enter the campus like this. It is for the Government to explain such attacks.”
Former CPI(M) MP Samik Lahiri attacked the BJP Government saying “it for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah to answer about the kind of democracy they have unleashed in India.