CPI(M) today favoured a debate over the alleged act of a group of Left-leaning SFI students who prepared a symbolic grave as a "retirement gift" to a woman principal of a government college in Palakkad.
CPI(M) politburo member M A Baby said he had come to know from the social media the symbolic grave prepared by students was an "artwork".
Baby who grew up in the state politics through SFI, said, according to his knowledge,a group of students were agitated as the principal took a "wrong stand" against the "progressive student organisation".
"She had also shown a compassionate approach towards a communal students' outfit. They wanted to react to it...They did an artwork, symbolically. She was not abused. There was no picketing or gherao against her," he said, responding to a query on the issue at a press conference here.
Following a complaint by the Principal T N Sarasu, who retired on March 31, police had registered cases under various sections of IPC against some SFI students.
Sarasu had alleged the students had acted on the behest of "some members" of All Kerala Government College Teachers Union, owing allegiance to the Left.
In her complaint to the police, Sarasu had named at least eight SFI students who had prepared the symbolic grave on the college campus and had strewn it with flowers and placed a wreath at about 7 am on March 31.
