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| Eminent personalities protesting against the vandalism |
It took Mamata
Banerjee – the West Bengal Chief Minister – an unfortunate manhandling of her
minister to realize that politics in this country has become “dirty” and
“nasty”. The epiphany dawned on the temperamental chief of the ruling Trinamool
Congress (TMC) only after activists from the Student Federation of India (SFI)
– an ‘undefined’ wing of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) – heckled her
and Amit Mitra (Bengal’s finance minister and the grand nephew of Netaji
Subhash Chandra Bose) outside the Planning Commission in Delhi on Tuesday where
she had gone to discuss the financial future of her state. Mitra landed in
AIIMS while the chief minister left for Kolkata and was admitted to a clinic
for treatment after she complained of pain in her joints.
The
SFI manhandling of Amit Mitra and the subsequent retaliation by TMC at the
Presidency University shows the nadir of student union politics. Should student
unions be banned throughout the country or should our politicians behave more
responsibly?
Read
my argument here:
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