Students are the potential leaders of the country, and when people think of the future of West Bengal, anxiety and fear cripples them. The students have turned barbaric and are active players in the new brand of a no-holdsbarred violence. Leaving behind the books and exams, students in both rural and urban areas are now totally politically indoctrinated and most of them don't have any apolitical identity - they are either Trinamool Congress Chhatra Parishad or Students Federation of India (SFI) cadre.
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The killing of Swapan Koley, a second year student of Prabhu Jagadbandhu College in Howrah on December 16 has led to such a polarisation that the SFI cadre and Trinamool Chhatra Parishad activists are now after each others' blood.
The son of a paan shop owner, Swapan always wanted to be a leader, and he chose to join the SFI. But West Bengal's new model of violent campus politics cut his life short.
Thrashed with iron rods, he was dragged out of the house and his head was smashed with bricks.
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