DU Correspondent :
Bangladesh Chhatra League’s (BCL) deprived leaders on Tuesday issued a forty eight hours ultimatum to remove ‘non-eligible’ leaders from the party’s executive body and to announce a fresh full-fledged committee including them.
They have threatened to go on hunger strike and quit their positions if actions are not taken within the stipulated time.
The deprived group demanded it at a press conference held at Modhur’ Canteen of Dhaka University on Tuesday noon.
Addressing the press conference Nipo Tonne, Deputy Cultural Affairs Secretary of the central committee claimed that the new committee had many leaders with criminal records. Many of them are non-students, drug abusers, drug dealers, married people and disputed individuals.
She further said that many devoted leaders and activists were deprived, including twenty two Dhaka University hall units’ presidents and secretaries.
Tonne claimed that many countered the new committee in exchange of money.
She also demanded punishment to those who attacked the activists of the deprived groups making many injured.
Earlier on Monday, at least 15 leaders and activists of BCL were injured in a factional clash following announcement of its 301-member full-fledged central committee.
On the day around hundred leaders and activists brought out a procession and arrived at Madhur Canteen to hold a press conference rejecting the committee, which later turned into battlefield as the two fraction locked horn.
Witness said that followers of BCL President Rezwanul Haque Shovon and General Secretary Golam Rabbani attacked the press conference several minutes after it was started.
Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina approved the central committee on Monday afternoon about eleven months after Rezwanul Haque Chowdhury Shovon and Golam Rabbani were made president and general secretary respectively in the 29th Council Session of the student organisation.
A press release signed by Rezwanul Haque and Golam Rabbani was circulated in the late afternoon confirming the new committee, which included 61 vice-presidents, 11 joint secretaries, 11 organising secretaries and other secretaries, deputy secretaries and assistant secretaries.
Meanwhile, BCL formed a three member probe body to investigate the Monday’s clash with newly announced executive body’s vice-president Al Nahian Khan Joy, Law Affairs Secretary Fuad Hossain Sahadat and Information and Research Affairs Secretary Pallob Kumar Barman.
A press release signed by BCL central president and secretary said this asking the body to submit the report within 48 hours.
Condemning Monday’s incident, it also said that action will be taken against culpable persons.
