Arrogance, Intolerance and no fear of law – The wretched leftism of Jadavpur University

Babul Supriyo, union minister and senior BJP leader was heckled, manhandled, his shirt torn by the goons of Student Federation of India (student body of CPM) in Jadavpur University, where he went to attend an event organized by Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad. “They assaulted me the moment I got out of the car. They kicked me, punched me, caught my hair … pulled me from one end to another. These were apparently students,” said Supriyo. “They hit me again with wooden sticks on my hand after I came down from the programme,” he added.

Ultimately, Babul Supriyo was rescued by West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar because the West Bengal state government did not send police officials to control the situation. Supriyo slammed the Mamata Banerjee government for taking no action.  “You have no words to utter for six hours or no administrative action from Mamta Governnet.. Your dirty politics have overpowered your logic. I pity you. FYI, if the Vice Chancellor wanted, the situation would have been under control at 3 pm before your #SFI (Students Federation of India, linked to the Left) hooligans started it. AVBP had Jadavpur University registrar’s permission to do the event,” he tweeted.

The rowdy SFI students blocked his car, and were not allowing him to leave. They also provoked the union minister by openly calling themselves Naxals. These SFI students in Jadav University, a bastion for communists, engaged in a sickening fight with Babul Supriyo, in ‘protest’ against him arriving at the Jadavpur University. The extreme-left, unsurprisingly found in Kolkata’s top universities, has not been able to digest the rising prominence of the right wing, and it often ‘resists’ and romanticises its ‘resistance’ which is nothing but unruly, riotous and anarchic behaviour.

This is not the first time when the student organization of Left leaning parties has created disruption in event of elected leader. In 2005, the activists of AISA, student arm of far left Communist Party of India-Marxist Leninist (CPI-ML), chanted Slogans of “Manmohan Singh, Hai! Hai!” and “Manmohan Singh, go back!”, when the then Prime Minister visited JNU to inaugurate a statue of former PM Jawaharlal Nehru.

The leftist student bodies were against the economic and defense policies of Manmohan Singh’s government. The students were opposed to Indo-US joint air exercise in West Bengal and India’s stand on Iran’s nuclear programme.

Previously, a stupefying report has been released by an independent commission headed by Justice PK Shamsuddin here in Kerala, The commission found out that government colleges in the state, apart from University College in Thiruvananthapuram, have turned their students’ union offices into ‘idi muri’ or ‘torture chambers’. The students who do not concur with the ideology of Students Federation of India (SFI), an affiliate student-body of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), are taken into these torture rooms where they are beaten and bruised.

The left claims to be open to ideas, and freedom of expression. But apparently, people are entitled to their views, only as long as they are not opposite to the views of Communist parties.

The killings under Communist regimes all over the world are well known and documented. From Stalin’s execution of political opponents to Great Leap Forward by Mao Zedong, the history of Communism is full of bloodshed and violence. The cruelty of the Communist regime in foreign countries is well known. But the massacres by Communist parties in India is lesser known because the left-liberal intelligentsia controls the academic and media narrative.

Kerala, the apple of the eyes for the Left and left dominated mainstream media, has seen much bloodshed in the last few years. The news of murders and violent attacks on Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh members committed in broad daylight on the streets of Kerala has been strategically sidelined.

Few months ago, a Student Federation of India (SFI) leader was stabbed to death and two others were gravely injured at a college in Kochi. The attack was allegedly carried out by members of the pro-Islamic Campus Front and its parent outfit Popular Front of India.

Therefore, the freedom of opinion and expression is the last thing the student bodies of the Communist parties stand for. If Left continues to walk down this path of extreme violence and malice, it would not be long before the left or specifically, in this case, SFI would be snapped out of existence. The West Bengal state government has to take the onus on itself and instill the belief in that the lives of people who adhere to different political ideologies, are not under threat.