Academic activities of Government Titumir College came to a halt as Bangladesh Chhatra League activists, who did not get any posts in the party’s newly formed college committee, are demonstrating for the second consecutive day today.
The demonstrators also beat up Shahadat Hossain, a student of management department, with rods and sticks on the campus suspecting him as a supporter of the new committee.
The BCL men made the attack a day after they went berserk and vandalised around 40 vehicles in front of the college at Mohakhali allegedly protesting the announcement of new BCL committee without holding a council meeting.
Kazi Mijarul Islam Dollar, the new president of the campus unit Chhatra League, put on a showdown with his supporters on the campus in the morning.
Getting the news, around 50 activists of the ‘deprived’ faction rushed to the spot to take on the new president and his supporters. But Dollar and his supporters were gone by then.
Then, the demonstrators attacked and beat up Shahadat on the campus suspecting him a supporter of Dollar. They Locals later rushed him to a nearby clinic.
Contacted, Prof Dilara Hafiz, principal of the college, said the authorities were compelled to suspend the academic activities as the deprived BCL men did not allow the students to enter the campus.
The authorities also postponed the interview of masters’ students due to the unrest situation.
Witnesses said law enforcers were stationed at the gates of Government Titumir College and the adjoining area since violence broke out last evening over the formation of the new committee.
Earlier yesterday, the ‘deprived’ group went berserk vandalising around 40 vehicles and driving panic through the area in protest against the new committee which they said was formed without a council meeting.
Yesterday, BCL activists of the college unit went berserk and vandalised around 40 vehicles in the neighbourhood, protesting the announcement of new BCL committee of the college, “without holding a council meeting”.
Source: The Daily Star
