A tense situation prevails on the Chittagong University (CU) campus as two factions of the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) of the CU unit have threatened to enforce a nonstop strike demanding immediate arrest of the “main” accused and exemplary punishment to the killers of Tapos Sarkar.
Members of Choose Friend with Care (CFC), a shuttle train based faction of BCL of CU unit, yesterday demanded that the authorities concerned form a judicial committee to probe the murder.
On December 14, Tapos, a first year student of the Sangskrit department and also a member of CFC group, was shot dead by the rival group Varsity Express (VX), another shuttle train based BCL faction, over establishing supremacy on the campus.
The CFC men held a press conference at the CU Journalists Association (CJUA) office at CU Central Student’s Union (CUCSU) building to press home their six-point demand.
Their demands include the immediate arrests of and capital punishment to the Office and Organising Secretaries, Jalal Ahmed and SM Ariful Islam respectively of the CU BCL unit dissolved committee; permanent expulsion of all accused in the murder, cancellation of their certificates; and lifting the ban on politics on campus.
Nazmul Haque, a student of the communication and journalism department, read out a written speech at the press conference, where CU BCL’s dissolved committee’s Assistant Secretaries Kawsar Ferdous Fuad and Abdullah Al Mamun were present.
“We will enforce nonstop blockade at the university if the VX men are allowed to return to the campus,” Nazmul said.
Meanwhile, the VX men also threatened to enforce a nonstop blockade at the campus from Monday demanding that the names of their leaders and activists be dropped from what they called a “false” case filed after Tapos’s murder.
They too demanded that their leaders and activists be allowed to return to the campus as well as to their dormitories.
Earlier, some VX men brought out a procession at the university’s rail crossing area around 1pm.
