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Rampage after PM's speech

Students clash with police in Gazipur: 30 hurt

From Our Correspondent
GAZIPUR, May 2: At least 30 people were injured when students of a local college clashed with police Friday immediately after the Prime Minister's May Day speech at a workers' rally here.
Three police officials, including the local Superintendent of Police were also injured in the incident.
Witnesses said that the students of Bhawal Badre Alam College ransacked the dais at the rally organised by the Jatiyatabadi Sramik Dal. soon after Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia left the venue in the local Chandana Bahumukhi High School premises.
Witnesses said that the students became furious and went on the rampage after the Prime Minister's speech in which she did not declare the Bwdre Alam College a university college-, a demand put forward by the Slate Minister for Religious Affairs Alhaj M A Mannan and supported by the focal people.
During the speech, the Prime Minister declared the setting up of a modem hospital at Gazipur. She also announced that the open university would also be set up there.
Begum Zia gave directives to nationalise the Chandana Bahumukhl High School and improve the power and water supply of Tongi and Gazipur.
When their demand was not met. the college students jumped to their feel and tried to demonstrate tn the middle of the Prime Ministers speech which was. however, controlled by the district BNP leaders.
The agitating students later brought out processions in the area and chanted slogans like "We reject the PMs announcement ... Bhawal Bad re Alam College has to be declared a university college." Police baton charged the processions. witnesses said.
The students also stoned the dais and damaged furniture on it. they added.
Later that night, police searched the residences of some of the student leaders, including that of the Vice President of the college students' union Asaduzzaman Tarun.
The students abstained attending their classes today to protest the police action and staged demonstration on the Dhaka Tangall highway.
Later this afternoon, they held a protest rally al Chandana Square.
Earlier the Prime Minister addressing the rally again accused "some parties" engaging themselves in conspiracy to foil the development efforts in the country.
"Some parties are conspiring to hamper the on-going development work in the country." she told a workers' rally here at Chandana Bahumukhl High School Friday.
However. the Prime Minister did not identify the organisations nor elaborate. Addressing a mammoth public meeting In the capitals Gulistan Square on April 20. Begum Zia. also chairperson of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), urged the people to thwart any conspiracy against democracy and nation building activities.
Oazlpur district unit of Jatlyatabadi Sramlk Dai. the labour front of BNP. organised the rally, to mark the historic
I May Day.