BCL confines Dhaka Univ VC,
demands release of gen secy
Courtesy New Age 6/8/08 DU Correspondent
Bangladesh Chhatra League activists confined the
They later released the vice-chancellor, SMA Faiz, at around 7:00pm, but called a strike on the campus for Wednesday.
Faiz, after freed from confinement, told reporters he would try to contact right persons to deal with the matter.
He said an academic atmosphere was prevailing on the campus and all should work not to make it volatile.
Although Faiz did not name any person, campus sources said he had a meeting with the education adviser, Hossain Zillur Rahman.
The social sciences dean, Harun-or-Rashid, accompanied him, according to the sources.
After freeing Faiz from confinement, the Chhatra League activists were out on demonstrations at the vice-chancellor’s office till 10:00pm.
The Chhatra League president, Mahmudul Hasan Ripon, said they had suspended their rally there at 10:30pm at the vice-chancellor’s assurance of a positive result by Wednesday noon.
About 150 leaders and supporters of Chhatra League, the student wing of the Awami League, brought out a procession on the campus and went to the administrative building and besieged it because their detained general secretary, Mahfuzul Haider Chowdhury Roton, was re-arrested after his release from Mymensingh Jail.
The activists also damaged the teachers’ cars parked outside the administrative building and on
They also gathered some piles of garbage and set fire to them.
The police positioned themselves on the campus after the BCL activists surrounded the building, but later withdrew. They then took up positions outside the campus, across the road near the Teacher-Student Centre and also at Nilkhet.
The acting general secretary of the BCL, Abul Kalam, told New Age that Roton was freed from Mymensingh Jail at about 10:30am on Tuesday, but was confined in the visiting room. The police later re-arrested him from there at around 2:30pm, said Kalam.
The news prompted the BCL activists to march to the vice-chancellor’s office. They said they would continue their protest until Roton was released.
Abul Kalam told New Age that Manobadhiker Shachetan Shiksharthy Brindo, a BCL-backed platform, has called for student strike for Wednesday in
The joint forces arrested Roton on Jan 18, 2007 on charge of violating the Emergency Powers Rules.
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