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‘Stole Votes for This in Bengal’: Anurag Kashyap Slams SRFTI Clash as Students Allege Attacks with Sticks, Bricks
Students alleged provocative speeches and campus assaults as police stood guard outside the institute and several people were injured, officials said.
- On Sunday, clashes erupted at the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute in Kolkata between students and members of the Akhil Bharatiya Grahak Panchayat during an event at the institute's auditorium.
- Students confronted organizers after learning the event, affiliated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh , was allegedly being used to "promote its agenda" on campus; organizers counter-alleged they had rented the hall and were attacked.
- Protesters alleged they were called "anti-nationals," "urban Naxals," and "terrorists" before being physically assaulted; at least six students were injured, while an ABGP member claimed four people were hospitalized.
- Following the incident, students staged a protest in front of the Kairali theatre complex in Keralam, while police personnel were deployed outside the SRFTI campus; authorities stated the situation is now under control.
- Weeks after a clash at Jadavpur University involving ABVP and Left-wing student organizations, this incident occurred at the SRFTI, which was established by the Government of India in 1995.
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Akhil Bharatiya Grahak Panchayat alleges disruption, vandalism, assault at SRFTI event in Kolkata; seeks FIR
The complainant alleged that around 10 minutes after the programme began, around 30-40 people carrying banners of the SRFTI Student Union, including one bearing the slogan "Resist Hindutva Fascism", forcibly entered the hall and disrupted the event by raising slogans.
·India
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Several Students Seriously Hurt as Men Claiming to Be BJP, RSS Workers Go on Rampage at Prestigious Kolkata Film Institute
Students had opposed a meeting organised in the name of the Akhil Bharatiya Grahak Panchayat, a supposed consumer awareness organisation affiliated with the RSS, at the main auditorium where many were working on assignments. What followed was a brutal assault on them.
·New Delhi, India
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Leaning Left8Leaning Right9Center2Last UpdatedBias Distribution47% Right
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L 42%
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