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Dasgupta gheraoed at Visva Bhararti

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Rajya Sabha member and BJP leader Swapan Dasgupta, Visva-Bharati Vice-Chancellor Bidyut Chakraborty and several others were confined to a room on the Santiniketan campus for over seven hours Wednesday by members of the SFI who protested the university’s decision to invite Dasgupta to

deliver a lecture on the new citizenship law.

Late at night, the SFI members ended their sit-in, allowing Dasgupta and others to emerge from the room. Earlier, West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar spoke to the DGP, while BJP national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya urged the administration to intervene. Taking to Twitter, Dasgupta said: “Drama ends in Vishwa Bharati without the confrontation that some protesters desperately wanted.”

A nominated Rajya Sabha member, Dasgupta was to speak on “The CAA-2019: Understanding and Interpretation” as part of the Visva Bharati Lecture Series at the university’s Lipika auditorium. The lecture, scheduled for 3.30 pm, was to be chaired by Vice-Chancellor Chakraborty.