A group of varsity students wrote to Visva-Bharati vice-chancellor Bidyut Chakrabarty on Friday seeking an unconditional repeal of Thursday’s order suspending two student leaders.
Visva-Bharati’s proctor Sankar Majumder had on Thursday suspended student leaders Somnath Sow and Phalguni Pan after the varsity accused them of “forcibly” breaking a lock at faculty chambers on January 9.
Pan and Sow, postgraduate economics students, had taken part in the students’ protest that day condemning the suspension of their professor and faculty association president Sudipta Bhattacharyya who had been critical of the VC’s alleged “saffron agenda”.
The suspension of students came soon after noted academics signed a petition addressed to the VC demanding Bhattacharyya be reinstated.
Visva-Bharati authorities on Thursday suspended two student leaders who took part in protests on January 9 to condemn the recent suspension of economics professor and faculty association president Sudipta Bhattacharyya.
In the suspension notice issued by Visva-Bharati proctor Sankar Majumder to student leaders Somnath Sow and Phalguni Pan, the varsity accused them of “forcibly” breaking the “seal/ lock of the chamber of a particular faculty member in the Department of Economics & Politics, Visva-Bharati, on 09.01.2021”.
The notice states that the decision to suspend the students had been taken by vice-chancellor Bidyut Chakrabarty and the suspension would continue till a detailed inquiry by the varsity, likely to take three months, is over.