The protesters demonstrated for over an hour in front of a locked gate near the central administrative building with a demand to meet interim vice chancellor Sanjoy Kumar Mallik
Visva-Bharati’s former vice-chancellor Bidyut Chakrabarty had stopped the fair in 2020 citing overcrowding, pollution and misuse of campus land by artisans and local traders who set up stalls | Kolkata News
One complaint was by the Santiniketan Trust, for having installed the controversial plaques omitting Rabindranath Tagore's name on its land without permission, and another was by a citizen, against the language used in a recent letter to Mamata Banerjee