Committed to PEOPLE'S RIGHT TO KNOW
Vol. 5 Num 392 Mon. July 04, 2005  
   
Letters to Editor


Ban student politics


Students are undoubtedly the most potent resource of any country. In our history, students played a glorious role in achieving many national goals. The role of students was important in the pre-liberation war period.

But now student politics is a boiling issue. In the name of politics students are just committing crimes. The organisations doing student politics are all sponsored by our political parties and are acting as breeding grounds of armed cadres. In fact, most of them are outsiders, not students. Recently, two students of Dhaka College, reported to be JCD activists, were held with snatched money. The violence that occurred in Dhaka University following the death of a student was also triggered by those outsiders doing student politics!

So student politics should be banned immediately. Students doing politics don't have any noble goals like they had in the 60's, 70's and 90's. The scope of student politics could be reduced, so that what they do remain within the confines of the power they have been conferred upon while entering the universities, i.e. they will only come to the streets if any of their rights is infringed upon.

The students should not hold the banner of any political party. Student politics is now a source of violence and all other ills plaguing the academic arena. It is also student politics which has tarnished the image of the highest forum of education.