Activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League struck out Mahmudur Rahman Manna’s name from the honour lists of Dhaka University Central Students’ Council (Ducsu) and Chittagong University Central Students’ Council (Cucsu) yesterday.
At Dhaka University, some Chhatra League leaders led by its vice-president Joydev Nondee entered the DUCSU Collection Centre and removed Manna’s name from its honour board around 2pm. They also burnt his portrait.
Manna is a former vice-president of DUCSU. In a telephone conversation with BNP leader Sadeque Hossain Khoka, the audio clip of which was leaked on Sunday, Manna, who is also a former Awami League leader and currently the convener of Nagarik Oikya, said killing in Dhaka University would aid the movement against the government.
“By plotting such conspiracy against DU, Manna has lost the right to be on the list; that is why we removed his name from the board,” Joydev told the Dhaka Tribune.
At Chittagong University, a section of Chhatra League’s CU unit declared Manna persona non grata on the campus.
Led by MA Khaled Chowdhury, general secretary of CU Chhatra League’s dissolved committee, the Chhatra League members went to the CUCSU building and erased Manna’s name from the list of elected general secretaries of the organisation around 1:30pm, sources at the campus said.
Manna, who graduated from the CU with a degree in economics, was elected as CUCSU general secretary from Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal in 1972.
“Having been a student leader, he (Manna) now wants to see university students dead for his ill political intention. We demand that the CU vice-chancellor cancel all his CU certificates,” Khaled told the Dhaka Tribune, adding that the would submit a memorandum to the VC today in this regard.
