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SFI suffers second successive defeat at Jadavpur University
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LOCALCORRESPONDENT on 28 March, 2008 03:09:00
 
The Students’ Federation of India (SFI) suffered a major setback in
Jadavpur University students’ election on Thursday. The defeat has assumed
a major political significance in view of the fact that the university comes
within the constituency of West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya.
The SFI, students’ wing of the ruling CPI (M) in West Bengal, underwent
the second successive defeat in two weeks.
The SFI suffered defeat against Forum for Arts Students (FAS) and Democratic
Student Organisation (DSO) combine. The defeat demonstrated waning popularity of
the SFI among the students and generation X in the state. Two week ago the SFI
was defeated in the students’ election even at Presidency College in
Kolkata.
The FAS and DSO combine mopped up their second successive victory at Jadavpur
University after they had trounced the SFI last year.