Lotus for VC, ‘Jai Shri Ram’ Flags Pop Up at JU, Staff Body Seeks ‘Naxal-Free’ Campus
Subhankar Chowdhury | 06 May 2026 | The Telegraph
Saffron flags fluttered at Jadavpur University on Tuesday, many bearing the slogan “Jai Shri Ram”. A group of university staff members moved around the campus carrying the flags. They handed a lotus in bloom to vice-chancellor Chiranjib Bhattacharjee and attempted to apply a saffron tilak on his forehead. The VC declined the tilak and accepted the lotus.
A day after the Assembly election results, JU offered glimpses unfamiliar to the 71-year-old campus. Areas around Milan da’s canteen and the arts-science intersection leading to gate No. 4 were dotted with flags of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the student wing of the RSS…