Kolkata: Left leaning students attacked
Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia
with eggs and tomatoes to protest the Centre's "failure" to
check price rise, but the edible missiles missed him.
According to an eyewitness account, some students, owing
allegiance to CPI-M's student wing SFI, waved black flags and
shouted "Montek go back" before hurling eggs and tomatoes at
Ahluwalia as he was entering the Presidency College here to
inaugurate a national seminar on economics.
But they clearly missed their target.
SFI sources, however, denied that eggs and tomatoes were
hurled, but said that a demonstration was held to protest
price rise and also the Centre's failure to implement the
Tapas Majumder report on higher education.
The country has been battling double-digit food inflation
for long and the matter has already rocked the ongoing monsoon
session of Parliament.
There was no report of any arrest.
PTI
First Published: Saturday, August 28, 2010, 15:51