The ruling Trinamul Congress in West Bengal on Friday remained in denial mode refusing to accept the involvement of party workers in the violence and vandalism at the Presidency University on Wednesday.
“I am saying this with full responsibility that no Trinamul Congress worker was involved in the incident. Stones were thrown from inside the campus to provoke violence. Who had thrown the stones on the peaceful protests at College Street is being investigated,” industry minister Partha Chatterjee said, adding that the police was looking for a youth named Pappu in this connection.
Minister of state for railway Adhir Chowdhury said that the Mamata Banerjee government was trying to shield party workers. “I challenge her to give a free hand to the police and I can tell you that the real culprits behind the Presidency vandalism will be identified,” he said, adding that many of them who were known Trinamul Congress leaders and workers were already caught on camera at the university gate.
Meanwhile, refusing to succumb to the government’s pressure, the Presidency University authorities on Friday maintained that those who had unleashed terror on the campus were holding Trinamul Congress flags.