Silsila, a cultural group of Dhaka University, organized a Kawali program on Thursday protesting the attack on its event a day before at the TSC.
They performed different Bangla and Urdu Kawali songs, and recited poems.
After the program, the organizers declared to stage Kawali programs at the TSC every Thursday from now on.
At least 11 students, including two females and a journalist, were injured in the attack on Wednesday. Soon after the program began at 6pm, some 70-80 Chhatra League activists came and vandalized the stage, chairs and musical instruments.
Molla Mohammad Faruk, an organizer of the program, said: “Now it is clear that the followers of Saddam Hussein, general secretary of DU unit Chhatra League, carried out the attack.
However, Saddam denied any involvement of his party activists in the attack.
Apart from band Silsila, others scheduled to perform at the event on Wednesday were Sheikh Fahim Faisal, and Nadim Ehtesham Reza Khan and his team.
2 injured in police action
At least two activists of the People Activists Coalition (PAC) were injured as police swung batons on their protest rally at Shahbagh on Thursday.
PAC organized the rally in front of the National Museum around 4pm protesting the attack on the Kawali event on Wednesday.
Police used batons to try to disperse the protesters soon after the PAC members opened the banner of the program, said Ratul Mohammad, one of the organizers.
“The organizer of PAC, Shimul Chowdhury, and Sojib Tushar were injured in the police attack,” he added.
Moudud Hawlader, officer-in-charge of Shahbagh police station, said: “When they tried to stage the rally, we just stopped them and they went away.”
He stated that the government had imposed restrictions on religious, political and social rallies and programs to prevent the spread of new Covid cases.