Silencing Dissent: How the JNU Playbook Was Used for Jadavpur University

Aparna Bhattacharya | 17 March 2025 | The Wire

The impossible has become possible in West Bengal. Or perhaps it was always there, hidden behind a camouflage.  Jadavpur University, the state’s most premier institution, has brought together the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), arch rivals in every electoral battle in recent memory, over a shared mission – to systematically vilify and dismantle this centre of academic excellence.

Sample this: “The university should be cleared out of left hooligans,” declared Jadavpur Lok Sabha MP Saayoni Ghosh from TMC. Ghosh is an alumna.

Meanwhile, BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari called it “a hub of anti-nationals.”…

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