Nationalist Students’ Front makes its debut on JU walls
Times of India | 5 September 2026
Kolkata: Right-wing students’ body — Nationalist Students’ Front — made debut on JU walls on Friday with anti-communist and nationalist slogans to send out a message they too “own” the campus walls as much as the leftist students do.
Around 10 NSF members wrote slogans, drew graffiti on the walls of Open Air Theatre (OAT), near Worldview, Fetsu union room, and Technology Bhavan in a five-hour drive starting at 1.30 pm and ending it at 5.30 pm.
NSF member and first-year history student Samiksha Jaiswal said, “Until today, the leftists thought that they had sole authority over the walls of the campus. Now, we own the walls as much as they do. So, if they think that they can write anti-India slogans, we will cover them up with pro-India and anti-communist slogans. We have written slogans on why there is silence in POK and also spoke about the attack on Bangladeshi Hindus by parodying a Tagore poem and exposing the hypocrisy of the leftists.”
In one of the walls near worldview which was already taken by All India Students’ Association (AISA), NSF drew a green hammer and sickle enclosed in an orange “prohibition” circle with a diagonal slash depicting anti-communist stance. Within an hour, AISA reclaimed the wall and wrote, “Scrap NTA, Revoke NEP 2020 and Stop privatisation of education.” AISA member Suman Halder said, “These are democratic walls so capturing it on a holiday is completely undemocratic. We have reclaimed it.”
Art Against Oppression (AAO), a cultural organisation with JU students, drew stencil portraits of Rabindranath Tagore, Kabi Nazrul Islam, Michael Madhusudan Dutt and Nityananda Prabhu along with the phrase ‘Dimagi Naxal?’ at Technology Bhavan on Thursday. NSF on Friday wrote “You only remember them to defend your anti-national activities”.
“How is drawing Chittaprosad or talking about Palestine anti-national? We do not consider it anti-national at all, instead, the writings of Tagore, Nazrul, Dutt and Nityananda, who questioned the power and the system, taught us to carry their legacy and turn the slur ‘Dimagi Naxal’ into a badge of honour. It now seems that they would have been labelled as ‘anti-national’ for their views and ideas,” said sociology student and AAO member Anubhab Gupta.
Among the other slogans that NSF wrote are “Free Tibet from Red Devils”, “It’s our campus, not your Oyo” at OAT, “Better dead than Red”, “Nation is First”, “ISRO, Eos-05, Brahmos are your inspiration not Charu Majumder”, “Liberty from Lenin”, “Long Live the Nationalists”, “Short live DSF” and “When Terror Becomes the Mask of Revolution/Humanity Suffers the Curse of Evolution” at Fetsu Union room.
Chemical engineering student Nabab said, “For 50 years, DSF has stood as a shield for the student community against intimidation. They will not be able to achieve anything by writing slogans inside the union room. In the coming days, DSF will ensure that they are driven out of the campus in a democratic way.”
Fetsu on social media wrote, “They wrote vulgar and offensive languages on the walls and paintings on various walls and belongings within the Union room. We believe that every wall and every space of the Union room and the campus belongs, in a democratic sense, to its students. However, the deliberate occupation and defacement of these spaces through vandalism is not an expression of democracy, it is an attempt to undermine the very principles of the democratic coexistence that our campus should uphold. Differences in opinion must never become a justification for damaging common spaces or creating an atmosphere of intimidation and insecurity on campus.”
SFI JU local committee secretary Abhinaba Basu said, “NSF has shown their standards. Petty and meaningless insults with misogynistic undertones are what they do. Still they should have done a bit of homework, SFI has organised protests when the Hindus of Bangladesh fell prey to communal violence. Our stance on Kashmir and Pakistan is available on the internet. Their attempts to malign the university is at best a nuisance to the eyes.”