The leaders and activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) Dhaka University unit brought out a procession on its campus yesterday, protesting the recent attack on two of its leaders at the Rajshahi University unit.
Later, they held a protest rally at Aparajeyo Bangla at 12:30pm yesterday. BCL DU unit President Mehedi Hassan and General Secretary Omar Sharif spoke on the occasion.
They demanded immediate arrest of the Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS) activists involved in the crime.
Speaking at the rally, DU President Mehedi Hasan claimed that ICS men had been directly involved in the RU incident and strongly demanded a check on Shibir’s activities on the educational premises.
He called the ICS men cowards for waylaying the BCL leaders and demanded exemplary punishment.
Omar Sharif warned ICS men not to repeat it in the future. “If they attack on us in future, we won’t remain silent and will give them an appropriate answer,” Omar Sharif added.
Omar Sharif conducted the rally while leaders of BCL DU unit and Hall units were present, among others. The protest march was brought out from DU’s Madhur Canteen and went along different streets on campus.
Earlier, a group of unidentified miscreants allegedly severed an activist’s leg and tore the tendons on the leg and hand of another leader of Rajshahi University BCL unit on campus yesterday morning.
The victims were identified as Abdullah Al Masud and Tagar Mohammad Saleh, second year students of the History and
Folklore departments respectively who were initially admitted at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital but later transferred to Dhaka Medical College Hospital as their conditions deteriorated.