Overview
- A Kolkata Municipal Corporation crew entered the Jadavpur University campus around midnight on Tuesday and whitewashed multiple political murals and slogans after the university requested civic help.
- Vice‑Chancellor Chiranjib Bhattacharya urged students to restrain wall graffiti and use social media for expression, saying the university lacked the resources to repeatedly erase freshly painted walls.
- Students and groups including the Revolutionary Students’ Front repainted walls in a 'reclaim the wall' response and protested that the whitewashes suppress campus speech and divert attention from an ongoing probe into alleged ABVP‑linked vandalism in late August.
- A programme titled 'Nationalism and Modern India' at the Triguna Sen Auditorium featuring BJP and RSS figures drew student objections that the appearance of political functionaries may violate a March 2025 Calcutta High Court direction.
- The dispute frames a broader clash between Jadavpur’s long culture of wall‑writing as political expression and state or civic efforts to sanitize campus space, raising the prospect of further polarization on campus and continued scrutiny of how authorities handle safety and autonomy.