On May 14, a mob had vandalised a bust of 19th century social reformer Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar in the college during Shah’s roadshow, triggering a violent clash between BJP and Trinamool Congress supporters.
In mid May, the demolition of Vidyasagar’s statue triggered a major controversy. Chief minister Mamata Banerjee, who rushed to the spot that very night, blamed BJP supporters participating in party chief Amit Shah’s road show for the incident. She also promised to install a statue at the college compound.
In mid-May, when a bust of Bengal renaissance icon Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar was desecrated during a clash between supporters of the TMC’s student wing and BJP in Vidyasagar College, similar hoardings were put up across the city.
The bust of Vidyasagar, a 19th-century social reformer, was vandalised in clashes between BJP and TMC workers at Vidyasagar College during BJP president Amit Shah’s roadshow on May 14.
Two CCTV cameras are installed outside the building on College Street (now Bidhan Sarani) and one is in the room where the Vidyasagar bust, made of Plaster of Paris, was kept inside a glass box.