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Ex-leaders behind BCL factional feud

They control several groups for their own interestas current leaders fail to maintain command

Rakib Hasnet Suman and Hasan Jahid Tusher
Taking advantage of inept' central leadership of Bangladesh Chhatra League, some former student leaders are allegedly pulling the strings behind the BCL factions blamed for the recent spate of violence in educational institutions.
Several activists of Chhatra League, student wing of ruling Awami League (AL), have told The Daily Star that the ex-BCL leaders are using the groups to achieve their own ends.
Some former student leaders on the other hand said cadres from other outfits infiltrating BCL and those left out of the central committee due to the age bar [29 years] are responsible for factional clashes, extortion, tender manipulation and illegal trade over admission to schools, colleges and universities.
They also noted that the current leadership's failure to reorganise BCL across the country in adherence to the age limit has got the organisation into this mess.
The age limit, set by AL President Sheikh Hasina to make Chhatra League politics off-limits to non-students, was first applied in the council of 2006 that elected Mahmud Hasan Ripon and Mahfuzul Haider Roton as president and general secretary.
Since taking over, Ripon-Roton committee could form only a few committees using the age criterion.
Speaking in return for anonymity, a central leader told The Daily Star, "Most of the district and university committee leaders do not really bother to listen to our president and general secretary as the two are many years their junior." According to insiders, much of Chhatra League operates on dictates from its two former presidents, two recently-retired BCL leaders who are now lawmakers, a former private assistant to the AL chief and an aide to the prime minister.
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Of the former leaders holding sway over Chhatra League, one was listed as graft suspect by the Anti-Corruption Commission during the caretaker government tenure. He came out of hiding only a few days before the December 29 election.
Meanwhile, some members of the current central committee said too many student activists from other parties have joined their organisation after the AL's landslide victory in the election.
Despite their involvement in various misdeeds, the BCL high command did not take any action against them.