West Bengal: RBU vice-chancellor resigns after youngsters show off obscene body markings at spring festival on campus
Kolkata/IBNS: A day after Kolkata's Rabindra Bharati University (RBU) campus witnessed a shocking display of cuss words- read vulgar Bengali slangs- by some youngsters on their bodies while celebrating the annual Basanta Utsav (spring festival inspired by Bengali cultural icon Rabindranath Tagore whose song they lampooned), the Vice Chancellor of the university, Sabyasachi Basu Roy Chowdhury, resigned from his position on Friday night.
According to the source, taking all moral responsibilities of the 'untoward' incident, the RBU VC sent his resignation letter to the Chancellor, Jagdeep Dhankhar, besides forwarding a copy of the same to the state education minister, Partha Chatterjee.
Earlier on Thursday, a group of six young students, who have been identified as outsiders, allegedly distorted a song of India's literary icon Rabindranath Tagore by painting with abir obscene words and slangs on their bodies while celebrating holi on the BT Road campus in north Kolkata.
The images of these young men and women flaunting the cuss words on their upper back and chests, while celebrating the festival of colour on the campus of a university set up in 1962 to mark the birth centenary of the legendary poet and first Asian Nobel laureate for Literature, soon went viral on social media, triggering shock and outrage.
Later on Friday morning, after facing a huge backlash, the RBU authority lodged a complaint with Sinthee Police Station following which five of those six students came to the university campus to apologise.
Condemning the incident, state education minister Partha Chatterjee said, "I have not received RBU VC's resignation letter yet."
"Whenever I get it, I will request him to withdraw it as he was not responsible for the incident," Chatterjee added.
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