Visva Bharati University Faculty Association President Sudipta Bhattacharyya has also voiced concerns about the future of the university. (File)
A police complaint has been filed against Visva Bharati University Vice-Chancellor (V-C) Bidyut Chakrabarty after a video surfaced showing him telling some people walking in a rally with him to teach a lesson to certain students. The video was purportedly shot at a march a day before the leftist students stalled a seminar on Citizenship Amendment Act where BJP Rajya Sabha MP Swapan Dasgupta was invited to deliver a lecture.
In the video, shot during a march led by Chakrabarty with a demand to stop “defaming” the university, the V-C is heard asking for photographs of certain people, to which a reply comes that all the names and photographs will be provided to him. After this, the V-C says, “Ektu osudh diye dao na (Give them some medicine, no),” to which comes a reply, “Without your green signal, we can't do anything, no.” The man in conversation with Chakrabarty is not clearly visible.
However, in the later part of the video, Achintya Bagdi, one of the three accused of beating up the students on the varsity campus on…
