Kaliganj (West Bengal): Students a school in Kaliganj, Nadia, boycotted classes to protest the vandalisation of a bust of an ex-student and a Kargil martyr. Premananda Chanda, a former student of Sapjola Deshbandhu High School, was an artillery sepoy in the Indian Army who was killed in Kargil conflict. Chanda's bust was found broken. Goons allegedly broke the iron hand-pump of a tube-well and used it to smash the bust.
"It is beyond our imagination that the bust of a soldier, who sacrificed his life to protect our country could be vandalised like this. We boycotted classes, demanding the arrest of the guilty," said Supriya Pramanik, a student of the school. Biswadeb Chandra, the 74-year-old father of the martyred soldier, said he was "shocked".
