Activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League severely beat up a Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal loyalist yesterday at Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) in Mymensingh.
The victim, Mijanur Rahman Shopnil, is a second-year engineering student at the university, and is known to be loyal to Chhatra Dal’s BAU unit Organising Secretary Shohrab Hossain Sujon, who allegedly recently made a derogatory comment about Chhatra League on Facebook about the Bakshibazar clash.
In response, Chhatra League’s BAU unit Joint Secretary Monirul Hasan Polash threatened Sujon through Facebook.
Witnesses said some 15 to 20 Chhatra League activists led by Humayun Kabir Akanda, Ferdous Alam Janis and Opi swooped on Shopnil in front of the engineering faculty building around 2:30pm, when he was going to class.
Passers-by later took him to the university healthcare centre in a critical condition, from where he was referred to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital.
Following Shopnil’s assault, Sujon said they would avenge the attack.
However, Chhatra League’s BAU unit President Mursheduzzaman Khan Babu denied the allegation.
He claimed: “Some of our activists only slapped Shopnil for his leader’s derogatory comments.”