Violence plagues college union elections in West Bengal

In West Bengal, college union elections are on, and Calcutta University goes to the polls on Saturday. But for the first time in recent history, the Students Federation of India (SFI), which is the students’ wing of the CPI (M), is not even contesting. Not because they didn’t want to, but because they were not allowed to file nominations. By the Trinamool Chattra Parishad (TMCP), they claim. The BJP’s student wing, Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), too, accuses the TMCP of widespread violence in college elections.

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