Hooghly, July 27 -- Union Minister of State for Education Sukanta Majumdar on Monday said that "goons and hooligans" took over a students protest staged by Left and ultra-Left groups in Kolkata on Friday, reporters were assaulted and beaten, and said those responsible would have to face consequences.

Speaking to reporters, Majumdar said, " Yesterday, in the name of cockroaches, the left and the ultra-left have demonstrated on the roads of Kolkata, and we have observed that the goons and the hooligans they took over the agitation and they molested the reporters, they have beaten the reporters and the police is now taking the action."

He further said, "It is the BJP government; we won't allow appeasement politics, so those who have done t...