4 professors of Jadavpur University in poll fray

Yet another CPM candidate Professor Anupam Deb Sarkar,a professor of Civil Engineering who is contesting from Behala West Assembly segment is the youngest of the four university candidates and had joined the university in 1999. “We are involved with the Left movement,” said Sarkar.

Professor Tarun Naskar of the university is the SUCI candidate from Joynagar in South 24 Parganas,the seat which Trinamool left for its alliance partner. Professor Naskar who joined the institute in 1982 is a faculty in the mechanical engineering department. “From Singur and Nandigram I have voiced our protest against the CPM time and again in the university and also outside,” Prof Naskar told The Indian Express.

According to faculty members,academicians from the Jadavpur University have always been involved in politics and contested elections.

“Even in the Congress days,there were people who were actively involved in politics and contested elections at MP level. Although this year there are faculty members from other universities who are contesting elections,Jadavapur has four faculty members in the election fray which is the highest so far,” said Keshav Bhattachaya, the general secretary of Jadavpur University Teachers Association (JUTA).