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Zero tolerance for BCL wrongdoings

AL high-command for action against offenders

Hasan Jahid Tusher
Awami League has directed the authorities concerned to show zero tolerance for Chhatra League leaders who embarrassed the party and the government by being involved in violence and an attempted rape incident in Satkhira on Wednesday.
It has also directed the Bangladesh Chhatra League high ups not to provide protection to the perpetrators for the interest of Awami League, Chhatra League and the government's image.
“We have directed the authorities concerned to take tough actions against the offenders and assured them that none will be protected," Awami League Joint General Secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif told The Daily Star about the party's stance on Chhatra League leaders' unlawful acts.
Sources said Prime Minister and party President Sheikh Hasina expressed serious dissatisfaction over the Satkhira incident, in which top district leaders of Chhatra League were allegedly involved.
She asked Hanif to communicate with the superintendent of police of the district regarding tough actions against the alleged criminals.
“I myself have called the local administration of Satkhira and directed the officials there to take the highest legal action against the offenders," Hanif said.
"The party high command's decision is to take instant stern action against the troublemakers,” he said.
In Satkhira, Chhatra League unit President Sheikh Jewel Hasan and General Secretary Nazmul Haque Palash allegedly attempted to violate a dance artiste Wednesday night.
Palash was arrested Thursday night after police was asked by the Prime Minister's Office to capture the culprits and punish them accordingly.
The dance artiste, also a college student, filed a case with Satkhira Police Station Thursday under the Women and Children Repression Preventive Act against four people including the president and general secretary of the district Chhatra League unit.
Chhatra League central committee dissolved the Satkhira unit and expelled
the accused president and general secretary from the organisation.
Meanwhile, top Chhatra League leaders also echoed the view of Hanif about not protecting the offenders.
Chhatra League President HM Badiuzzaman Sohag said, “We will not spare the leaders and activists who indulge in illegal and unlawful activities.”
Chhatra League leaders and activists recently swooped on students in Buet, Kuet and Jagannath University. Khulna University of Engineering andTechnology (Kuet) had to be closed sine die.
The activists have been accused of beating up students at different public universities and colleges across the country.
The pro-Awami League student body President Sohag claimed, “Chhatra League is not responsible for all the incidents that occurred on different campuses recently.” He blamed conspiracies against the organisation.
He said Chhatra League has no organisational committee in Kuet and that is why, it cannot be blamed for the incident there. He said the incident in Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) was triggered by a row between a senior and a junior student and his student body had nothing to do with it.
It has been reported that Chhatra League activists attacked students of Kuet on January 2 as the students were protesting poor food served. The incident left 25 people injured.
A day later in Dhaka, Chhatra League activists attacked freshers of Jagannath University who were demonstrating against additional fees for admis-
sion.
On December 31, Chhatra League activists beat up a senior student of Buet that sparked a three-day students' protest. The Buet authorities later expelled two students and both of them were Chhatra League leaders.
Chhatra League is yet to take any action against the perpetrators of the three incidents.
Mid-ranking Chhatra League leaders expressed doubts to The Daily Star on whether anything concrete will actually be done against the culprits. They said the organisation can only expel people involved in anti-organisational activities but sometimes even that is not done.