West Bengal College Union Elections

• Violence Plagues College Union Elections in West Bengal

  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...

• Students' Unions of Trinamool, BJP Clash in Campuses Across Bengal

  In four districts across West Bengal, the Trinamool Congress's student wing Trinamool Chhatra Parishad or TMCP and the BJP's student wing Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad or ABVP clashed today over the filing of nominations for college union elections that are around the corner. The police had to resort to lathicharge in at least two cases, in Ba...

• Guns openly flashed during college union elections in West Bengal's Malda district

  Violence and chaos marked the college union elections in West Bengal's Malda district with students openly flashing and firing guns despite the cameras around.

• West Bengal government suspends all college union elections for six months

  In the wake of the violence over college elections at Garden Reach in which one policeman was shot dead, West Bengal government yesterday announced state-wide suspension of college union elections for six months in view of various board examinations, and the upcoming panchayat elections.