Hostel wars erupt in Calcutta Medical College

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Keywords: Students Federation Of India, Calcutta Medical College

Kolkata: The evening of May 23 saw pitched fighting at the main hostel of the Calcutta Medical College.

About 80 students affiliated to the Students Federation of India, with help from local hooligans, allegedly beat up boarders of the Medical College Democratic Students Association in an attempt to forcefully occupy the rooms.

The SFI activists were claiming that 27 rooms at the hostel belonged to them while others pointed out that they had not applied for the same on time.

"We are extremely worried about the situation. We are students who were beaten up by SFI thugs as they tried to capture our hostel,” said MCDSA member, Ratul Banerjee. “We want to solve the matter amicably through dialogue. We will continue this strike till the matter is resolved.”

The college authorities immediately shut down the hostel and the MCSDA hostellers, who are also interns at the hospital, are now putting up in a common room, which provides no food, no water and certainly no bedding.

“The authorities have provided us with no amenities, no food, no water and they have just thrown us into this common room,” complained intern Wasim Khan.

Both the hostel administration and the SFI refuse to comment on the situation. And as officials search for an amicable solution, the MCDSA hostel remains locked.

After 48 gruelling hours of a sustained political hunger strike in the face of growing official apathy, the Medical College Democratic Students Association is continuing their fight for their rights and their reason to remain as the sole apolitical students body in the historic college.