Calcutta University Elections

The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday directed the West Bengal government to immediately ask all universities to conduct students' union elections and set up anti-ragging committees if these have not been done already.

In West Bengal, college union elections are on, and Calcutta University goes to the polls on Saturday. But for the first time in recent history, the Students Federation of India (SFI), which is the students' wing of the CPI (M), is not even contesting. Not because they didn't want to, but because they were not allowed to file nominations. By the Tr...

The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday directed the West Bengal government to immediately ask all universities to conduct students' union elections and set up anti-ragging committees if these have not been done already.

In West Bengal, college union elections are on, and Calcutta University goes to the polls on Saturday. But for the first time in recent history, the Students Federation of India (SFI), which is the students' wing of the CPI (M), is not even contesting. Not because they didn't want to, but because they were not allowed to file nominations. By the Tr...