Mamata Banerjee kept dodging the questions of the protesters and kept expressing gratitude for being invited to the institution. Calling herself a 'Royal Bengal Tiger', she said that she did not care for anyone
A massive agitation was initiated by student organisations of the Left and the TMC on 5th March after the SFI and ultra-left Naxal outfits disrupted an event of the West Bengal College & University Professors Association (WBCUPA), an organisation of pro-Trinamool professors leaving the state education minister Basu and several professors injured.
The conflict began when ABVP members requested the mess administration to serve sattvic food, as many students were observing a fast on the occasion of Maha Shivratri and accused leftist goons of trying to "spoil" the religious harmony on campus.
September 17 marks the 28th anniversary of the 'Parumala Balidan Diwas', the fateful day when three ABVP activists were stoned to death by SFI-DYFI goons.
TISS designated Progressive Students Forum as an "unauthorised and illegal forum" on its campus and accused them of misleading students, obstructing the functioning of the institute, creating division among the students and faculty and defaming the institute.
A PhD candidate at the Tata Institute of Social Science (TISS) was suspended for two years for "repeated misconduct and anti-national activities" on 18th April