The protest comes in the wake of the arrest of five FTII students in a midnight crackdown on Tuesday.
Expressing solidarity with the students of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), following a police crackdown and arrest of five FTII students on Tuesday midnight, students of Jadavpur University came out in huge numbers on Wednesday to condemn the incident.
Hundreds of students holding posters and shouting slogans took out a massive rally from the University main gate to the Jadavpur police station. They even braved the rain and participated in the rally. Later, the students assembled inside the campus and raised slogans reiterating that they ‘stand with FTII’.
This protest comes in the wake of the arrest of five FTII students in a midnight crackdown on Tuesday. The police entered the campus and took five students in its custody on charges of rioting and unlawful assembly. The arrest was made for gheraoing the director of the institute on Monday night.
“FTII authorities did what the Jadavpur University vice chancellor Abhijit Chakrabarti did last year. We have stood in solidarity with FTII students from the first day. In its 70th day, we will continue to support them till the end. What happened last night was uncalled for. Police barging into an educational institute to arrest the students for gheraoing the director is not right. It is our democratic right to protest,” said Krishnendu Das, Jadavpur University student.
On September 17 last year, the students of Jadavpur University gheraoed vice chancellor Abhijit Chakrabarti for allegedly not acting on a complaint of molestation of one its students inside the campus, and the police in a similar crackdown, lathicharged to disperse agitating students. After months of continued protests, ultimately the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee removed Chakrabarti from the post of vice chancellor.
Meanwhile, students of Presidency University and the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute (SRFTI) also stood in solidarity with the FTII students.
Earlier, National Award-winner actor-filmmaker, Aparna Sen had come out in support of the protesting students and hit out at the appointment of Gajendra Chauhan as the chairman, terming it as an attempt of ‘saffronisation’.
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