Kolkata, March 6 A scuffle broke out between police personnel and SFI activists during a protest outside the state-run Burdwan University campus in West Bengal on Friday over alleged delays in holding student union elections and the publication of semester results of the institute.
Around 300 activists of the students' wing of CPI(M) attempted to breach police barricades and enter the varsity campus in the Purba Bardhaman district, a senior officer said.
Some of the protesters made attempts to scale the university gate in the Rajganj area, he said.
"The protesting students tried to move past the barricades, but were prevented by the police personnel as the gathering was affecting vehicular movement and the functioning of other offices in the area," the officer said.
An SFI protester told reporters that they wanted to meet the vice chancellor or registrar to hand over their memorandum of demands for holding the student union elections and the publication of semester exams as soon as possible.
"Every year, there is a delay in the publication of results despite holding the semester exams on time. This creates uncertainty among hundreds of students," she said.
The activists of the Students Federation of India (SFI) shouted slogans against the university management and the state higher education department for allegedly being indifferent to the pressing issues.