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DU braces for more BCL violence

Leaders of two factions fight for new hall committees

Najmul Alam Nobin and Rakib Ahammed
Disputes between central and midlevel Dhaka University (DU) leaders of the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) over forming new committees for residential halls are turning for the worse.
The mid-level leaders have been pressing for the hall committees for the past three years. The pro-Awarni League student outfit last formed such committees in 2002.
BCL president Mahmud Hassan Ripon told a press conference in May that the DU hail units would be reorganised in a week.
But the central leaders, backed by the upper echelon of the uni ver sity unit BCL, have since been biding their time, arguing that they should now focus on pressing for the unconditional release of Awami League President Sheikh Hasina.
Students said the disagreement between the two factions may erupt into full-bore clashes at any time.
The two factions clashed at Zahurul Haque Hall on Sunday, spreading panic among hundreds of hall students
Students said the incident may lead to more violence on the campus at any time.
Meantime, BCL activists at the university declared four top central and DU unit leaders persona non grata on the campus yesterday, accusing them of failing to forge an effective movement for Hasina's
BCL sources said the four student leaders are planning to come to the campus with their Dhaka City unit followers. The face-off is certain to worsen the situation, they said
The BCL leadership sat several times to decide on hall committees a few months back, but failed due to wrangling over placing their own
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men on the committees.
DU unit president Sheikh Sohel Rana Tipu told The Daily Star that a few petty problems got in the way of forming the committees.
"The organisation is getting weaker in the DU halls for dithering over announcing the hall-unit committees," said a president candidate for such a committee.
He said the hall unit committees should have been declared shortly after the present committee for the university unit was formed.
"We've been involved in Chhatra League politics for over four years now but did not get any post at any level of the organisation. What we have got are police repression during the Khaleda-Nizami regime and a string of false cases,” another aspirant hall president said preferring anonymity.
The top BCL leaders did not show up on the campus on October 19 for a scheduled agitation programme to press for the Awami League president's release.
Hall-level leaders and activists held the procession where they chanted slogans demanding new hall committees.