ATTEMPT TO BURN COLLEGE PRINCIPAL IN KOLKATA BY THE FOLLOWERS OF MAMATA BANERJEE

A college principal in south Kolkata was sought to be burnt alive by Trinamool 'students' recently. Kaustav Chatterjee, secretary of the Bengal unit of the SFI said that this incident is portentous as an ominous sign, and that footfalls of the anarchic decade of the 1970s were heard in the city, again.

The occurrence was one in a series of vandalism that the Trinamul Congress ‘students’ indulged in, across the colleges, schools, and higher institutions in Bengal in coherent and conscious cooperation with the SUCI, and the urban crypto-‘Maoists.’ On the plea of bringing in ‘students’ for admission to an under-graduate course the college concerned, Heramba Chandra College (formerly south City College), in what is now south-central of the spreading Kolkata metropolis, the goons created a ruckus. They barged into the office of the principal who was atremble with fear when he saw one of the more seriously inebriated toughs take out a beverage bottle, uncap it, and proceed to pour out what was car-fuel-grade, highly octane, petrol on his shirt front. With a presence of mind borne out of survival instincts, the principal swayed to a side, away from the attacker, and only his sleeve was soaked. The tough was soon overpowered, and the fatal match could not be struck.

The act was accompanied by the usual and expected wrecking of computer work stations, telephones, furniture, and official papers, both filed and unfilled. The principal was heckled, man-handled. He has lodged a compliant with the concerned Lalbazar Police HQ.

The signs are not good. The Trinamul chief drones about a change being born, day in and day out. Her roughneck lieutenants echo her sentiments manifold in terms of abuse and noise, threats and terrorisation, ad nauseum. The people of every strata of the society, even the icons of the ruling classes, have started to develop a fear psychosis, and mob violence may not quite be that far off. The democratic masses will certainly stay vigilant, but we are afraid that such intimidatory tactics from the Trinamulis and their co-conspirators against democratic norms may well continue.

Courtesy: http://www.pd.cpim.org/