JU: Engineering students also vote against VC
The referendum of Science and Engineering faculty of Jadavpur University was held on Tuesday and Wednesday.
But the Science faculty could not participate in the referendum due to their exams.
They said that they would arrange another referendum for their faculty after exam.
More than 89.2% students of engineering faculty participated in it while the result was counted on Wednesday afternoon under the observation of human right activist Sujata Bhadra, Bolan Ganguly among others.
Actor Kaushik Sen was present at the time of voting on Tuesday.
The result showed almost 98% voters voted against the VC and rest 2% voted for Abhijit Chakraborty.
On Oct 30 and 31, arts faculty of JU also arranged referendum and 97% students of arts faculty voted against VC then.
General Secretory of Faculty of Engineering & Technology Students' Union (FETSU), Chiranjit Ghosh told IBNS that after some days they would arrange a meeting of their general bodies to decide the next step of their movement.
Vice-Chancellor of JU, Abhijit Chakraborty on Sept 16 had called the police to remove protesting students of the university from the main administrative building in the campus. The police had cracked down on agitating protesters and arrested 37 students that night.
(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)
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