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JCD bars Azad Mancha activists from holding programme

DU CORRESPONDENT
The pro-government Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) forced activists of the Humayan Azad Mancha out of Dhaka University (DU)'s TSC (TeacherStudent Centre) area yesterday as the Mancha activists prepared to hold a programme there protesting the February 27 attack on Prof Humayun Azad.
Students under the banner of Humayan Azad Mancha to Protect Freethinking and Resist Undemocratic Forces had been staging a protest there for the last five days against the deadly attack on the eminent writer.
The Azad Mancha in a statement said its activists gathered at the foot of the Raju Bhaskorjo to render protest songs, but they were barred by the JCD men who later drove them away from the spot.
"The JCD men told us we should forget about the movement in the name of general students. They said we were actually working for the left-leaning political parties under the banner of general students and threatened to harm us if we didn't leave immediately," said one of the demonstrators.
"Two of our activists were also picked up by the JCD and some outsiders," another demonstrator said, adding: "JCD activists were seen patrolling the TSC area in the afternoon and told us to leave when we went there at around 6:00pm."
The JCD denied having issued any threat to the demonstrators. "We requested students not to hold any programme on the campus supporting the hartal tomorrow (March 6)," said JCD General Secretary Azizul Bari Helal.
He said the JCD urged teachers to help maintain peace on the campus during today's hartal. The student wing of the ruling BNP (Bangladesh Nationalist Party) would bring out a procession and hold a rally on the
campus today to protest the attack on Prof Azad and denounce the 'illegal hartal'.
A group of JCD men on motorbikes were also seen driving around the university's Institute of Fine Arts and Central Shaheed Minar area yesterday, sources said. The JCD also put up posters on the campus Thursday night in the name of general students, blaming Awami League President Sheikh Hasina for the attack on Azad.
Saroj Sarker, a resident student of room no. 158 of Jagannath Hall, alleged that the hall unit JCD leaders ransacked his room in the early hours of yesterday because he took part in a demonstration protesting the attack on Azad.
Meanwhile, the ruling BNP's cultural wing Jatiyatabadi Samajik Sangskritik Sangstha has been staging cultural programmes at the Swoparjito Swadhinata since Wednesday after capturing the podium there erected by general students.
Campus sources said the pro-BNP white panel teachers discussed the campus situation during an emergency meeting with DU Vice-Chancellor Prof SMA Faiz yesterday.