Will maintain dharna if West Bengals school admissions don’t start quickly, warns BJP

Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari warned of sit-in demonstrations outdoors the State Education Department headquarters at Bikash Bhavan from subsequent week if the State authorities doesn’t provoke school admissions and publish pending examination outcomes by the top of this week (August 24, 2025).

On Monday (August 18, 2025), Mr. Adhikari headed a delegation of 15 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislators to satisfy Governor CV Ananda Bose and submitted a memorandum searching for his pressing intervention within the extended delay within the publishing of outcomes of the West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination (WBJEE).

WBJEE, an entrance examination for undergraduate engineering, know-how, structure, and pharmacy programs in West Bengal’s State-run and State-aided universities, was performed on April 27, however the outcomes have been delayed, probably as a result of the matter surrounding the State’s Other Backward Classes (OBC) reservation checklist is at present being heard by the Supreme Court.

“It has been three months [since examinations have been concluded], but first-year admissions haven’t but begun. JEE outcomes haven’t been declared. This is a really critical concern. Nearly 5 lakh candidates and their guardians are very fearful. They are struggling… If school admissions don’t begin by this week and the JEE outcomes will not be printed, BJP MLAs will maintain dharnas in entrance of Bikash Bhavan from subsequent week,” Mr. Adhikari stated after assembly the Governor.

In West Bengal, 8,200 academic establishments shut down final 12 months, Mr. Adhikari stated. He additionally accused West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of making an attempt to privatise greater training within the State.

“The delay will result in drop [in] pupil turnout as many could also be pressured to reluctantly search alternative outdoors Bengal. In addition to the worst hit way forward for lakhs of meritorious college students, the popularity of the academic establishment in West Bengal [gets] hit which can cut back the variety of college students as they are going to go outdoors in enormous quantity,” the memorandum to the Governor dated August 18, 2025, reads.

Meanwhile, the West Bengal authorities’s Directorate of Medical Education, in an ‘pressing discover’ on August 18, introduced that the counselling and admission course of for medical and dental programs below National Eligibility cum Entrance Test Undergraduate (NEET UG) 2025 “has been saved below abeyance until additional order.”

“The way forward for the state’s medical college students has been pushed into darkness. Why was the admission counseling, as soon as began, abruptly halted indefinitely? Is this one more try and appease slender political pursuits by granting undue privilege to a specific group below the guise of reservation?” Union Minister and BJP MP Sukanta Majumdar questioned on Monday, referring to the order.

On Tuesday, August 19, 2025, activists of the Students Federation of India (SFI) staged an indication close to Bikash Bhavan to protest in opposition to the delay in WBJEE outcomes and the deferment of MBBS and BDS counselling. Several protestors had been detained because the police disrupted SFI’s protest march to Bikash Bhavan.