THE brutality of Mamata Banerjee government has once again came to fore when agitating students were beaten up brutally by her police and then by thugs backed by her party within two days inside the Burdwan University campus. The students of Burdwan University, under the leadership of Students’ Federation of India (SFI), organised a demonstration against the incomplete and faulty results in the graduation exam. In fact, discrepancies in the results and mark sheets had delayed the publication of results and withdrawal of some results from the university website, thus putting a question mark on the future of several students. SFI convened a rally and deputation to the vice chancellor on February 23, against such discrepancies in the results. SFI Burdwan district committee also sought prior permission of the authorities for their rally and deputation. But the vice chancellor without meeting the students called the police to gag their voice. The police resorted to brutal lathi charge on the students. TMC loyalist sub-divisional police officer (SDPO) not only led the operation against students but also verbally abused them. The male police personnel pounced upon the girl students to beat and the girl students were abused by them as well. Some shameless police personnel snatched the flags of SFI from the students and beat the students with the sticks of the flags. Thirty students, including leaders of the SFI Burdwan district committee, were injured and among them eleven students had to be hospitalised with serious injuries. The lathi charge on the students within the university campus has reminded people of Bengal about the incident of Jadavpur University where Mamata Banerjee’s police lathi charged the students on September 17, 2014 which ultimately led to a wider protest. Eminent persons from the educational field have condemned the brutal police act on the students in Burdwan University. SFI West Bengal state committee has demanded the resignation of the vice chancellor and also has observed protest day on February 24. SFI general secretary Bikram Singh, went to Burdwan to express solidarity with the students’ demands. He, along with the state leaders of SFI, also met the injured students. Meanwhile, a group of students started a hunger strike from February 25 in the university campus. Around 7 pm in the evening of February 26, they were attacked by the ruling party backed non-teaching staff of the varsity. The demonstrators were not only manhandled and overpowered but several girl students have complained of molestation by the attackers. The students spotted several outsiders with the attackers who afterwards admitted their TMC allegiance to the journalists. The attackers put the lights off and attacked the students and started beating them with nail-fitted batons. Many of the attackers, especially the staff of the university, had their faces covered. The reporters who were covering the incident were also manhandled by the attackers. The incident once again unmasked the true condition of Bengal where even a demand like transparent examination system is gagged by the police on the directions of a shameless, cringing administration. Protest is spreading all around the state and the demand for removal or resignation of the incapable vice chancellor of Burdwan University is gaining more and more public support. The Teachers’ Association has unequivocally condemned the brutal police act on the students. SFI and other Left students’ organisations called for a rally and deputation to the governor, who also happens to be the chancellor of the university, against the brutal attack on the students in Kolkata on February 27. Once again Mamata Banerjee’s police arrested the students to prevent them from meeting the chancellor. Terming the attack on students as gruesome and barbaric, Surjyakanta Mishra questioned how the protesting students were barred from meeting the governor and were arrested. He further said that people and the students must rise against such heinous attacks. The protest is gaining strength every day. A huge rally took place in Burdwan on February 29 demanding the removal of the vice chancellor and the registrar. SFI and DYFI convened the rally. The rally also voiced protest against the role of police who acted almost like TMC cadres in uniform. Well known intellectuals and educators took part in a rally on March 1 in Burdwan to condemn the assault and atrocities in the campus, which has become almost like a ritual in Bengal under the TMC rule.