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West Bengal
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KOLKATA: West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee asserted in the Assembly on Thursday that the Left Front was against police interference in student movements. "It is not our policy to send the police into educational institutions. Nor do we want the police to interfere in students' movements," he said. Mr. Bhattacharjee was referring to the incident in Jadavapur University when police had to intervene and take students on a hunger-strike to hospital last month. The students had been demonstrating against the suspension of some of their colleagues on the charge of assaulting the university officials. (Those suspended have, subsequently, been pardoned.) Replying to a calling attention motion on the subject, Mr. Bhattacharjee said the police had to physically move the fasting students from the university campus as their health was failing. The police would not have intervened had the students listened to the doctors sent to examine them time and again and who had recommended that they be admitted to hospital.
"Only chased away"
The Chief Minister said the police only chased away a section of students who were hurling bricks at them to prevent removal of the students on hunger strike to hospital. Seven police personnel were injured in the attack. Mr. Bhattacharjee urged the Opposition members not to politicise the incident as the stalemate between a section of the students and the authorities had now been resolved. "I did not issue any statement during or after [the incident] as I was busy trying to help formulate a solution acceptable to both the sides," he added.
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