India, April 6 -- Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) supporters on Sunday celebrated Ram Navami, a Hindu festival dedicated to the Lord Ram, in Kolkata's iconic Jadavpur University campus despite the authorities denying permission to host it.

As per a video that has now gone viral, students placed a clay idol of the Hindu deity on a temporary platform and performed the rituals on the campus,

Jadavpur University, located in south Kolkata and considered one of the iconic institutes in West Bengal, is largely known to be a stronghold of student wings affiliated to the Left forces.

The university, earlier, denied permission to celebrate the celebrations of Hindu festival Ram Navami inside the campus.

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