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Kolkata: Men claiming to be members of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad stormed the campus of the Vidyasagar University in Medinipur of the Paschim Medinipur district in Bengal, vandalising the premises while chanting “Jai Shri Ram” on May 8.

The ABVP is the student wing of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. The incident took place on the same week when the Bharatiya Janata Party won the Bengal elections and a day before its leader Suvendu Adhikari was sworn in as chief minister.

Screengrab from a video showing the extent of damage at the Vidyasagar University.

The portraits of two towering icons of the Bengal Renaissance, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar and Rabindranath Tagore, which used to be displayed inside the closed students’ union office were reportedly pulled down and severely damaged. Campus staff whom this reporter spoke to said that the men who claimed to be ABVP workers also entered the offices of the Vice- Chancellor and reportedly pressured him to also chant “Jai Shri Ram”. They also allegedly issued........

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