DU Correspondent :
The Pragatisheel Chhatra Jote (Progressive Students’ Alliance), a platform of left-leaning students’ organisations, have called a strike at all educational institutions across the country on January 29 to press home their four-point demand.
Earlier to this, they will hold a solidarity rally at the altar of the Raju Sculpture on Dhaka University (DU) campus on January 26, while a nation-wide demonstration will be staged on January 28.
The platform’s coordinator Imran Habib Rummon announced at a press conference at the Madhu’s Canteen of the University on Wednesday.
The demands include immediate arrest and exemplary punishment to Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) men who had attacked agitating students on Tuesday and on January 15, withdrawal of cases against the general students, bearing the medical expenses of the wounded students and holding of DUCSU elections.
At least 30 protesters were injured as BCL men beat them at the DU vice-chancellor’s office on Tuesday.
Imran Habib at the press conference also demanded forming a judicial inquiry committee to look into the incident.
“The High Court has ordered the DU authorities to hold DUCSU elections (Dhaka University Central Students Union) within six months. We fear a plot is being hatched to foil the DUCSU elections,” Imran Habib said.
Leaders of Bangladesh Chhatra Union, Samajtantrik Chhatra Front, Chhatra Oikya Forum, Samajtantrik Chhatra Front (Marxist), Bangladesh Students’ Federation and Biplobi Chhatra Moitree were present at the press conference.
DU students started to demonstrate on January 11 demanding implementation of their four-point demands, including scrapping of affiliation of seven colleges with Dhaka University.
The Pragatisheel Chhatra Jote (Progressive Students’ Alliance), a platform of left-leaning students’ organisations, have called a strike at all educational institutions across the country on January 29 to press home their four-point demand.
Earlier to this, they will hold a solidarity rally at the altar of the Raju Sculpture on Dhaka University (DU) campus on January 26, while a nation-wide demonstration will be staged on January 28.
The platform’s coordinator Imran Habib Rummon announced at a press conference at the Madhu’s Canteen of the University on Wednesday.
The demands include immediate arrest and exemplary punishment to Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) men who had attacked agitating students on Tuesday and on January 15, withdrawal of cases against the general students, bearing the medical expenses of the wounded students and holding of DUCSU elections.
At least 30 protesters were injured as BCL men beat them at the DU vice-chancellor’s office on Tuesday.
Imran Habib at the press conference also demanded forming a judicial inquiry committee to look into the incident.
“The High Court has ordered the DU authorities to hold DUCSU elections (Dhaka University Central Students Union) within six months. We fear a plot is being hatched to foil the DUCSU elections,” Imran Habib said.
Leaders of Bangladesh Chhatra Union, Samajtantrik Chhatra Front, Chhatra Oikya Forum, Samajtantrik Chhatra Front (Marxist), Bangladesh Students’ Federation and Biplobi Chhatra Moitree were present at the press conference.
DU students started to demonstrate on January 11 demanding implementation of their four-point demands, including scrapping of affiliation of seven colleges with Dhaka University.
