Kolkata (West Bengal): In a veiled reference to Trinamool Congress (TMC), BJP MP Swapan Dasgupta, who was allegedly locked inside a room at Vishwa Bharati Univesity in Birbhum for several hours on Wednesday, said that there were people who belong to a political party dominant in the region is behind the incident.
"Verbally, I have communicated my concern to various people. They called me including HRD minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, Amit Shah and JP Nadda. Various members of faculty expressed to me in private their concern that certain foreign students by ICCR are actually participating in these kinds of agitation," Dasgupta told media here on Thursday.
"According to reports from people standing outside, it seems that apart from students there was a cluster of people with iron rods and bamboos. We presume that they may belong to a political party which is dominant in Birbhum was behind this. Once they dispersed, students also dispersed," he said.