Young Politics
Forget chasing politics out of education as it had promised it would do, three years after coming to power in Bengal, the ruling TMC finds its student activists being subjected to the same violence it cannot contain. It was time for the city of Calcutta to go into shock yet again over another untimely death when it woke up to the news this week of a 21-year-old college student who had been brutally beaten to death merely for campaigning for student elections. He belonged to the TMC union and was allegedly killed by students belonging to the rival Left political group. SFI (Student Federation of India), the student union of the Communist Party of India (Marxists) has denied the charges. Political parties of course are pointing at each other over the issue. But when will they learn that does it matter which political party a young student who dies belonged to? Doesn't the horror lie in the fact that both administrations – the previous Left regime and the current TMC regime – have failed miserably to create an atmosphere of peace in the educational institutions of the state and instead have only been blaming each other as the lives of so many young men and women get whiffed out by the vicious political climate of the state?