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Clean student politics a must to free campus of violence Speakers tell discussion

Staff Correspondent
The student politics should be clean and taken to its glorious past to make the campus free from violence, said speakers at a discussion yesterday to mark the seventh death anniversary of Buet student Sabequnnahar Sony.
They said all concerned should come forward to clean the student politics from criminal activities to save the future generation
The discussion titled 'Violence-free Campus Day' was organised by the authorities of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet).
It may be mentioned that no such discussions marking the death anniversary of Sony was held in last seven years.
Sony died in a crossfire between two rival groups of Jatiyatabdi Chhatra Dal on June 8,2002.
Speaking as chief guest former Buet vice chancellor Prof Abdul Matin Patwary said there should be a national pledge to remove crimes from the campuses as it is not the duty of government or political parties alone.
"We are not against student politics, but we just do not want the present form of student politics. We want to go back to glorious past of student politics,*' he said.
“We don't want to see another Sony dying from campus violence," said Habibur Rahman Bhuiyan, father of Sony.
“The political system which has been creating cadres is more responsible than the cadres who killed Sony. This system must be cleaned," he added.
Speaking as a special guest, Editor and Publisher of The Daily Star Mahfuz Anam said, “if we fail to take the student politics as well as the party politics to their glorious past, then all the institutions of the country would be ruined."
“We have been tolerating crimes that have been prevailing around us, but if we continue to tolerate them, then the students will suffer," he added.
In a keynote paper Prothom Alo Editor Matiur Rahman said, "We are proud of student politics of the sixties. But we now need to ban the politics that is going on the campuses in the name of student politics "
The supreme leaders are saying that they will control their student organisations but they have failed, he added.
Buet Vice Chancellor Pro! AMM Shafiuliah presided over the meeting which was also addressed by Sony Memorial F o u n d a 11 o n Chairman FH Khan and Programme Director of the foundation Habibullah N । Karim and Buet Professor J AKM Abdul Quader.
Prof Shafiuliah said Buet will observe June 8 as anti violence day every year
Earlier, different organisations placed wreaths on the memorial of Sony on the cam I pus.
Buet unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League formed a human chain on the campus demanding execution of the verdict on Sony murder case.