The second round of the West Bengal Assembly's Budget session, set to begin on March 10, is expected to be quite stormy over several issues, including the Jadavpur University crisis.
A single judge bench of the Calcutta High Court, on Friday, raised questions about the lapses and inadequacies in the security arrangements of West Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu as he was injured during a ruckus in the Jadavpur University campus on March 1.
The student organisation held a sit-in dharna at the Banga Bhawan with a demand for the resignation of Bratya Basu for driving through a crowd of agitating students causing injuries to some of them.
Student's Federation of India (SFI) on Sunday claimed that the vehicle of the West Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu which had hit two students inside the Jadavpur University (JU) campus, had an expired pollution control validity.
Education minister Bratya Basu today lauded chief minister Mamata Banerjee for her unparalleled contributions to the development of north Bengal, asserting that no other chief minister in the state has achieved as much since Independence.
The minister, who is himself a playwright and theatre artist also enquired if they would be ready to renounce awards given by the Centre.
Trinamul Congress leaders today lambasted the CBI and urged the agency to break silence and make a statement regarding the progress of investigation to remove all confusion.
Bratya Basu, state Education minister inaugurated a function to celebrate the 60th anniversary of New Alipore College at a function on 4 August.
In a sarcastic tone, Mr Basu today said he was looking, as it were, “Macbeth of Shakespeare but not Hamlet. He looks like harbouring tall aspirations.”
The investigating agency claimed that Kuntal and Manik were part of a ‘deep-rooted conspiracy’ saying that the candidates who paid money were briefed in advance to answer only two questions on the OMR sheets and leave out the others that would be answered later
