BCL girls fight at Eden College
DU Correspondent
Two feuding factions of the Eden College unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League fought on the campus for hours on Friday over share of the 'admission business'. It is alleged that the leaders charge a handsome amount of money from some students to facilitate their admission, and in the process many unfit students are getting admission while capable students are being deprived. 
Chhatra League activists loyal to unit president Selina Shamima Nijhum and their antagonists got locked in an altercation that led to a brawl with sticks, iron rods and brickbats.
The clash began at morning when Nijhum's followers drove away an activist, who is loyal to anti-Nijhum leaders, from Razia Begum Hostel, said college sources.
After this many of the Chhatra League leaders of the college took a stand against Nijhum, saying that she was involved in illegal businesses including the 'admission trade' and was responsible for oppression of students in the college's hostels, sources added.
The anti-Nijhum leaders also claimed that the college's principal, Mahfuza Chowdhury, always abets Nijhum in her illegal activities.
They demanded immediate expulsion of the principal and Nijhum. They said that they would launch a tough movement to realise their demands.
They said that Nijhum and general secretary Farzana Yasmin Tania jointly enrolled almost seven hundred students illegally in this year's Honours courses.
General students said that there was no difference between Nijhum and the BCL leaders who were against her, and the latter were now protesting against her because they felt deprived of their share in the admission business.
Nijhum, while talking to reporters, dismissed the allegations and said she would step down from the post of president if anyone could prove that she was involved in the admission business.
She said that four vice-presidents of the BCL unit — Champa Khatun, Sharmin Sultana Sharmi, Taniya Sultana Happy and Kaniz Fatema — were responsible for Friday's violence.
The vice-principal of the college, Ayesha Begum, said there had been a dispute between Chhatra League activists but it was not a big deal.
She also claimed that there were no irregularities in the admission process this year.
The police went to the college at around noon and brought the situation under control. But activists loyal to both the groups were roaming around on the campus with sticks and iron rods till the evening, said the general students of the college.
Regards
Ezajur Rahman (Junel)
Kuwait
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