Hundreds of agitating students of Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) are observing their scheduled programmes for the seventh consecutive day on Monday, protesting the killing of Saad Ibne Momtaz.
Saad, 21, a final year student of Fisheries Faculty of BAU and organising secretary of BCL Ashraful Haque Hall unit, was killed in an attack by friends who are also BCL men on Tuesday morning.
The agitating students held a rally at the altar of Bijoy’71 monument on the campus around 11.30 pm Monday.
The demands included arrest of Saad’s killers and to make their names public; cancellation of their studentship and permanent expulsion of the accused from the university.
Later, they brought out a procession on the campus chanting slogans in favour of their demands.
The students have been continuing different programmes protesting the death of Saad since Tuesday.
The programmes included protest procession, ‘mass signature collection campaign’, and formation of human chain, candle lighting at Bijoy’71 premises and drawing paintings on BAU campus.
The teachers of Fisheries Faculty also held a press conference this noon expressing solidarity with the demands placed by the general students.
Prof. Dr. Idris Ali, dean of the faculty read out a written statement at the press conference.
The teachers demanded proper security measures for both students and teachers to maintain congenial academic atmosphere on the campus.
BCL BAU unit also took separate programmes on Saturday and Sunday demanding the immediate arrest of Saad’s killers but they did not take any programme Monday.
On Friday, BCL unit of BAU permanently expelled its two activists namely Sujoy Kumar Kundu, organising secretary of Ashraful Haque Hall unit of the university and Md Rukonuzzaman Rukon, an activist of the student body, in face of strong protest by the students
Earlier on Wednesday night, police arrested Sujoy and Rukon accused in Saad killing case from Mymensingh town and they were produced before a Mymensingh court on Thursday that sent them to jail.
