Ritabrata Banerjee-led TMC faction demands immediate students’ union polls in colleges
Ritabrata Banerjee alleged that the BJP government had nominated its MPs and MLAs to college governing bodies
The Trinamool Congress (TMC) faction led by Ritabrata Banerjee has demanded that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government hold immediate student union elections in all colleges and universities in West Bengal. Banerjee accused the BJP of not taking any initiative to conduct these elections and alleged that the ruling party had nominated its MPs and MLAs to college governing bodies, which he said showed that the BJP had not been able to shed the "ills" of the previous CPI(M) and Mamata Banerjee-led governments.
The student union elections in West Bengal have been in a limbo for the last five years, with a petition filed in the Calcutta High Court last year demanding the resumption of campus polls.
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