TMCP to keep an eye on RSS activities in north Bengal colleges

SNS, 21 August 2014: Trinamul Chhatra Parishad (TMCP) president Sanku Deb Panda today urged the student wing members to watch out for RSS activities on college campuses. 

He also asked them to immediately report if they find any RSS activity on the campuses.

"The RSS has targeted students and it wants a politics-free campus. A recent remark of the BJP MP, Babul Supriyo, has made this thing clear. We will conduct strong campus monitoring to keep a close watch on RSS activities. The monitoring  would be conducted two hours before classes and three hours after classes," Mr Panda told the gathering during the TMCP’s north Bengal convention here today. "If the students come to know of their activities, they should inform the state leadership and we will politically tackle them. The BJP is the mask and the RSS is the face, while there is no existence of the Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad," he added. Mr Panda also said TMCP activists must not attack Opposition parties.

"You should not physically attack them, because the CPI-M, Congress and BJP are already politically dead," he said.

Talking about the encephalitis outbreak in north Bengal, Mr Panda said the matter has been exaggerated.

"The issue was hyped without reason when the leader of the Opposition in the Assembly, Surjya Kanta Mishra, visited North Bengal Medical College and Hospital," he said. 

North Bengal development minister Gautam Deb asked the students to form teams that will campaign for the Siliguri Municipal Corporation (SMC) and Siliguri Mahakuma Parishad (SMP) elections."The SMC and SMP elections are approaching and we want to win both the polls with huge margins. The students should form teams and start campaigning as their door-to-door drive will help us reach the people more effectively," Mr Deb said.He also said students should form their unions in colleges and universities through contests.

"If you got selected without fighting elections, the future leadership in you will not come out. At the same time you should also give opportunities to other student bodies to contest anything so that nobody points finger at you in the future," Mr Deb told the students.He said the student union election in the North Bengal University Law College would be held soon.

"I had a talk with education minister Partha Chatterjee on the issue," Mr Deb said.  The elections at the law college have not been held for the past few years.