Following violent clashes between student protesters and Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activists at different public universities around the country, celebrities have voiced their support for the quota reform movement. The July 15 incident left approximately 300 people injured, including female students and BCL members. As of July 17 (3:00pm), six fatalities have been reported due to the ongoing unrest.
An activist of the Dhaka University Bangladesh Chhatra League unit has been accused of eve-teasing and slapping a female student of a private university at TSC. Besides, a shop employee of Hakim Chattar has also accused the same BCL activist of snatching his money and phone.
AL must take responsibility for its student activists’ degeneracy
Moharram Ali, additional superintendent (crime) of Barguna police, was yesterday withdrawn hours after the home minister commented on police charging batons on BCL activists in the district on Monday.
Chhatra League is working to ensure atmosphere conducive to education at the colleges and universities across the country, wrote its General Secretary SM Jakir Hossain in a newspaper article published on January 4, marking the student body's 70th founding anniversary.
Bangladesh Chhatra League has apparently assumed the role of law-enforcement agencies on the Dhaka University campus, as two recent incidents suggest. Usually, members of the proctorial team or police are entrusted with maintaining campus security, but the current administration seems to be counting more on the activists of the pro-Awami League student body for the job.
A group of activists of Jubo League and Bangladesh Chhatra League, youth bodies of ruling Awami League, beat up headmaster of a high school in Kushtia for submitting names of the school’s managing committee members without consulting with them.
Two rooms in a hostel of Rajshahi Government College are set on fire following a clash between Chattra League (BCL) and Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) activists.
Two BCL activists are stabbed in a factional clash over establishing supremacy in Madan Mohan College area in Sylhet city.
Following violent clashes between student protesters and Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activists at different public universities around the country, celebrities have voiced their support for the quota reform movement. The July 15 incident left approximately 300 people injured, including female students and BCL members. As of July 17 (3:00pm), six fatalities have been reported due to the ongoing unrest.
An activist of the Dhaka University Bangladesh Chhatra League unit has been accused of eve-teasing and slapping a female student of a private university at TSC. Besides, a shop employee of Hakim Chattar has also accused the same BCL activist of snatching his money and phone.
AL must take responsibility for its student activists’ degeneracy
Moharram Ali, additional superintendent (crime) of Barguna police, was yesterday withdrawn hours after the home minister commented on police charging batons on BCL activists in the district on Monday.
Chhatra League is working to ensure atmosphere conducive to education at the colleges and universities across the country, wrote its General Secretary SM Jakir Hossain in a newspaper article published on January 4, marking the student body's 70th founding anniversary.
Bangladesh Chhatra League has apparently assumed the role of law-enforcement agencies on the Dhaka University campus, as two recent incidents suggest. Usually, members of the proctorial team or police are entrusted with maintaining campus security, but the current administration seems to be counting more on the activists of the pro-Awami League student body for the job.
A group of activists of Jubo League and Bangladesh Chhatra League, youth bodies of ruling Awami League, beat up headmaster of a high school in Kushtia for submitting names of the school’s managing committee members without consulting with them.
Two rooms in a hostel of Rajshahi Government College are set on fire following a clash between Chattra League (BCL) and Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) activists.
Two BCL activists are stabbed in a factional clash over establishing supremacy in Madan Mohan College area in Sylhet city.
Prof Yasmeen Haque of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology observes that BCL activists are not to blame for Sunday’s attacks on the university teachers.