Initially a centrist organization, IC’s policies saw a leftward shift after the Left Front government veered towards capitalist camps from 2002.
[1] Sunandan Roy Chowdhury has identified The Free Thinkers of JNU (in the late 1970s and the 1980s) and the Independents' Consolidation as two important examples where student politics had moved away from the fold of established parties.
On 21 February 2010, a first year IC supporter had to be hospitalized after being allegedly beaten up by members of SFI when winning candidates of the two organizations assembled for the formation of the college union.
[7] On 21 January 2012, a second-year political science student and an IC supporter survived after slashing his wrist when he was thrown out of the Eden Hindu Hostel following weeks of abuse and torture by SFI cadres.
[8] On 18 March 2014, the Independents' Consolidation organized a referendum on whether the then TMC Member of Parliament Sugata Bose should continue as chairperson of the Presidency Mentor Group.
[12] In May 2021, Independents' Consolidation demanded that the university authority allow the use of the campus as a safe home for non-critical patients to ease the pressure on hospital beds during the COVID-19 pandemic in West Bengal.