DU Correspondent :
Five quota reform movement’s leaders were injured in an attack allegedly by some Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activists in the TSC area on the Dhaka University (DU) campus around 2:30pm on Sunday.
The injured are: Md Sohrab, Kabir Hossain, Jasimuddin and Bin Yamin Molla, joint conveners of Bangladesh General Students’ Rights Protection Council, a platform that led the quota reform movement.
Around 40-50 BCL leaders and activists from different dormitories swooped on the quota reformists around 3:30 pm, while they were chatting in front of Dhaka University Teachers-Students Centre (TSC) cafeteria after lunch, witnesses said.
“The BCL men suddenly attacked us while they were chatting at TSC. We don’t understand why they attacked us,” said Md Fahim Rahman Khan, a joint convener of the platform.
Contacted, DU unit BCL General Secretary Saddam Hussain said he was not aware of any such attack.
Nurul Haque, joint convener of the General Students Rights Protection Council, said that five joint conveners of their organization were beaten up. The condition of the three is critical. The injured students are: Sohrab Hossain, Bin Yamin Molla, Jasim Uddin, Ahmed Kabir and Md. Tareq Rahman.
They were admitted to different private hospital in the capital, he said.
Five quota reform movement’s leaders were injured in an attack allegedly by some Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activists in the TSC area on the Dhaka University (DU) campus around 2:30pm on Sunday.
The injured are: Md Sohrab, Kabir Hossain, Jasimuddin and Bin Yamin Molla, joint conveners of Bangladesh General Students’ Rights Protection Council, a platform that led the quota reform movement.
Around 40-50 BCL leaders and activists from different dormitories swooped on the quota reformists around 3:30 pm, while they were chatting in front of Dhaka University Teachers-Students Centre (TSC) cafeteria after lunch, witnesses said.
“The BCL men suddenly attacked us while they were chatting at TSC. We don’t understand why they attacked us,” said Md Fahim Rahman Khan, a joint convener of the platform.
Contacted, DU unit BCL General Secretary Saddam Hussain said he was not aware of any such attack.
Nurul Haque, joint convener of the General Students Rights Protection Council, said that five joint conveners of their organization were beaten up. The condition of the three is critical. The injured students are: Sohrab Hossain, Bin Yamin Molla, Jasim Uddin, Ahmed Kabir and Md. Tareq Rahman.
They were admitted to different private hospital in the capital, he said.
