Intelligence agencies report: 8 AL leaders behind campus unrest
Around 50 people who were found involved in tender snatching or extracting money from different quarters in the capital using the ruling party identity
Intelligence agencies have found eight suspected ring leaders of ruling Awami League who are allegedly partonising students unrest in different educational institutions across the country, sources said.
The main suspects are those political leaders who were deprived of getting nominations in the ninth parliamentary elections and also not properly evaluated even after the formation of the Awami League-led grand alliance government.
They have outstanding political background, especially a long career of doing student politics. They had close links with the father of the nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and are also very close to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the sources said."Apart from the ruling party activists - like Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) and Awami Jubo League - some outsiders and even a quarter of the then 'special Bhavan' and local criminals were also found involved in creating a political turmoil raising some controversial issues with a view to serving their narrow personal interests," they added.
A high official of the law-enforcing agencies hinted that the party activists along with their hardcore followers are under the strict watch of the law-enforcers as the high-commands of the law-enforcing agencies have been asked by the Prime Minister to take necessary measures in this regard within the shortest possible time.
The sources said, with a malafied intention, their followers were asked to cover some assignments to tarnish the image of the ruling Awami League goverenment. The assignments include: indiscriminate attack on law-enforcers, assaulting female teachers, launching street agitation through various pretext and ransacking vehicles.
There is a widespread allegation that ring leaders of the trouble-makers remain behind the scene, it was said in the report which will be submitted to the Government's high-up soon.
Against the backdrop of frequent intra-party clashes, admission business, forcible occupation of students' dormitories, vandalising the academic institution, assaulting female students on campuses, tender manipulation and extortion, the Government high-ups have been asked to make a list of the suspect trouble-makers in the capital and across the county.
The intelligence agencies found that some of the field-level trouble makers have actually no political ideology. They usually change their level immediately after the political changeover in the country.
The intelligence agencies have already identified around 50 people who were found involved in tender snatching or extracting money from different quarters in the capital using the ruling party identity.
Earlier, the Awami League General Secretary and LGRD Minister Syed Ashraful Islam claimed that a unified Shibir activists have been replaced in the BCL committee. He passed such comment after an intra-BCL fighting on Dhaka University campus creating a widespread confusion in the party.
Echoing to the voice of the LGRD Minister, acting AL General Secretary Mahhub-Ul-Alam Hanif also said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked the authorities concerned to take stern action against the culprit who are creating unrest and anarchy across the country using BCL identity.
A central leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) who did not want to be named told The New Nation Tuesday that some immediate-past BCL leaders were found involved in tender manipulation.
"Besides, there are some student leaders in BCL who were not seen earlier in the Awami League programme in the field during the party's tough time. Many dedicated student leaders were deprived of getting any post and position," he said.
A Jubo League leader - who was also a central committee member in Chhatra League (Shaeem-Panna) - claimed that there are some party men in Jubo League who have reportedly got central committee membership paying Taka one lakh to an influential quarter.
Party insiders said, that very guy was an activist of Islami Chhatra Shibir. Earlier, he remained into hiding for several years outside the country. After his return, he managed to get a membership in Jubo League.
Talking to The New Nation, BCL General Secretary Mahfuzul Haidar Chowdhury Roton denied Chhatra League's involvement with such widespread allegation.
He added that some outsiders and anti-liberation forces entered the BCL to foil image of the BCL which had a glorious contribution to the Independence of Bangladesh.
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The main suspects are those political leaders who were deprived of getting nominations in the ninth parliamentary elections and also not properly evaluated even after the formation of the Awami League-led grand alliance government.
They have outstanding political background, especially a long career of doing student politics. They had close links with the father of the nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and are also very close to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the sources said."Apart from the ruling party activists - like Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) and Awami Jubo League - some outsiders and even a quarter of the then 'special Bhavan' and local criminals were also found involved in creating a political turmoil raising some controversial issues with a view to serving their narrow personal interests," they added.
A high official of the law-enforcing agencies hinted that the party activists along with their hardcore followers are under the strict watch of the law-enforcers as the high-commands of the law-enforcing agencies have been asked by the Prime Minister to take necessary measures in this regard within the shortest possible time.
The sources said, with a malafied intention, their followers were asked to cover some assignments to tarnish the image of the ruling Awami League goverenment. The assignments include: indiscriminate attack on law-enforcers, assaulting female teachers, launching street agitation through various pretext and ransacking vehicles.
There is a widespread allegation that ring leaders of the trouble-makers remain behind the scene, it was said in the report which will be submitted to the Government's high-up soon.
Against the backdrop of frequent intra-party clashes, admission business, forcible occupation of students' dormitories, vandalising the academic institution, assaulting female students on campuses, tender manipulation and extortion, the Government high-ups have been asked to make a list of the suspect trouble-makers in the capital and across the county.
The intelligence agencies found that some of the field-level trouble makers have actually no political ideology. They usually change their level immediately after the political changeover in the country.
The intelligence agencies have already identified around 50 people who were found involved in tender snatching or extracting money from different quarters in the capital using the ruling party identity.
Earlier, the Awami League General Secretary and LGRD Minister Syed Ashraful Islam claimed that a unified Shibir activists have been replaced in the BCL committee. He passed such comment after an intra-BCL fighting on Dhaka University campus creating a widespread confusion in the party.
Echoing to the voice of the LGRD Minister, acting AL General Secretary Mahhub-Ul-Alam Hanif also said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked the authorities concerned to take stern action against the culprit who are creating unrest and anarchy across the country using BCL identity.
A central leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) who did not want to be named told The New Nation Tuesday that some immediate-past BCL leaders were found involved in tender manipulation.
"Besides, there are some student leaders in BCL who were not seen earlier in the Awami League programme in the field during the party's tough time. Many dedicated student leaders were deprived of getting any post and position," he said.
A Jubo League leader - who was also a central committee member in Chhatra League (Shaeem-Panna) - claimed that there are some party men in Jubo League who have reportedly got central committee membership paying Taka one lakh to an influential quarter.
Party insiders said, that very guy was an activist of Islami Chhatra Shibir. Earlier, he remained into hiding for several years outside the country. After his return, he managed to get a membership in Jubo League.
Talking to The New Nation, BCL General Secretary Mahfuzul Haidar Chowdhury Roton denied Chhatra League's involvement with such widespread allegation.
He added that some outsiders and anti-liberation forces entered the BCL to foil image of the BCL which had a glorious contribution to the Independence of Bangladesh.
http://nation.ittefaq.com/issues/2010/05/07/news0364.htm
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